The word game that reveals peoples' anxiety and depression
Depression changes people's feelings. It might also change their
thoughts, or more specifically, it may make them pay more
attention to these thoughts. Psychologists have noticed that a
particular word game, a game that evokes the Stroop Effect,
seems to have a peculiar impact on people with depression.  The
Stroop Effect is quite a well-known psychology phenomenon. Print
a page of words, all in different-colored inks. The words
themselves are color words — red, blue, green, yellow, etc. The
key is, the color of the ink doesn't match the word. For
example, the word "red" might be printed in green ink, the word
"yellow" might be printed in blue. Ask people to pick out all
the words written in blue ink, and they think they've got an
easy job. It is easy if the words were neutral things like
"clock" or "radio." People do it quickly. If the people see the
word "red" spelled out in blue ink, or the word "blue" in yellow
ink, they hesitate. They take in th