PARAPHRASE SUMMARY PRACTICE Karen Silvestri Instructor FTCC From
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PARAPHRASE & SUMMARY PRACTICE Karen Silvestri, Instructor FTCC
From Hell and Back page 139 paragraph 5 Before I continue, I should make a confession. For all of my adult life, I regarded depression and anxiety as pretty much a load of hooey. I never accorded any credibility to the idea that they are medical conditions. Nothing scientific about it. You get sick, get fired, fall in love, get laid, buy a new pair of shoes, join a gym, get religion, seasons change, whatever; you go with the flow, dust yourself off, get back in the game. I thought antidepressants were for desperate housewives and fragile poets.
Sentence 2 and 3: For all of my adult life, I regarded depression and anxiety as pretty much a load of hooey. I never accorded any credibility to the idea that they are medical conditions.
Paraphrase of Sentence 2 and 3: He spent his whole life thinking that depression and anxiety wasn’t really a medical condition.
Sentence 5: You get sick, get fired, fall in love, get laid, buy a new pair of shoes, join a gym, get religion, seasons change, whatever; you go with the flow, dust yourself off, get back in the game.
Paraphrase of sentence 5: He figured all people have problems, and they need to just get over it.
The last sentence: I thought antidepressants were for desperate housewives and fragile poets.
Paraphrase of the last sentence: He thought antidepressants were for weak people.
Summary of Passage He spent his whole life thinking that depression and anxiety wasn’t really a medical condition. He figured people have problems and they need to just get over it. He thought antidepressants were for weak people.
