...mood or prolonged emotional state. Almost anyone can suffer from mood disorders including children. These disorders range from depression, bipolar disorder to mania. In each of the states of the disorder, the person is either in a euphoric state or extremely sad state of mind. Although a person may experience mood changes in their life, and may be happy at times and then sad other time, it become a psychological disorder when the symptoms last longer than a certain amount of time. Depression is the most common mood disorder. With depression comes feelings of overwhelming sadness, lack of interest in activities, and excessive feelings of guilt or worthlessness. People who suffer from depression feel they have failed tremendously in life and therefore find it hard to be sociable, they are always tired, and they never feel comfort or pleasure. They find it hard to concentrate on anything and they lose interest in sex and food as a result. Some of the signs of depression include changes in short-term memory, insomnia, and in extreme cases suicide weighs heavily on their minds. There are two categories for depression; major depressive disorder is the term used to describe intense sadness, depressed mood, and loss of interest in almost everything. Dysthymia is a milder form of depression with the same symptoms, the difference being this form of depression only last for about two years. Mania is the state in which a person becomes euphoric, or extremely active, excessively talkative...
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...Depression, one of the most common of the diagnosed mental disorders, is troubling the college students in an increasing rate. Psychologists define depression as mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for an extended period of time. Although it may sound simple, this ailment should not be underestimated; it must be understood well to avoid grave consequences. Most of the college students fail to notice that they are afflicted by depression, which in turn greatly affect their academic performances. It is imperative that these students be aware of this disorder in order to survive their university lives. First, it should be known to all that depression is caused by many factors instead of believing that it is caused by a one-time event such as failing an exam. Depression among college students may be rooted on their inability to adjust to the culture of their university. Changes in their environment, being away from the family, and new peers and influences stress these students, and when they fail to adapt, they inevitably fall into the abyss of depression. The increased competitiveness in the universities and greater academic demands of parents add to these factors which push students to be depressed. Failure to accomplish these goals and responsibilities over and over is another great leap to sadness and frustration. The different lifestyle of being a college student is another factor due to chemical imbalances, lack...
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...Depressive Disorders ------------------------------------------------- Abnormal Psychology 440C “Depression, second leading cause of disability worldwide”-MNT The Anxiety and Depression Association of America states that major depressive disorder is the leading cause of disability in the US. A depressive disorder is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It interferes with daily life, normal functioning, and causes pain for both the person with the disorder and those who care about him or her. According to Nemade, Depression was initially called "melancholia". The earliest accounts of melancholia appeared in ancient Mesopotamian texts in the second millennium B.C. At this time, all mental illnesses were attributed to demonic possession, and were attended to by priests. In contrast, a separate class of "physicians" treated physical injuries (but not conditions like depression). The first historical understanding of depression was thus that depression was a spiritual (or mental) illness rather than a physical one (GBC 2013). Depressive disorder was first formally introduced in the fourth version of DSM and was included in Appendix B among omer diagnostic in need of further study (Orstavik 2007). It also addresses other disorders (2-7) such as premenstrual dysphonic disorder, major depressive disorder, persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia), seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and bipolar disorder also called manic-depressive illness...
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...Coco-Cola Vintage Ad Elizabeth Hamilton Professor Smith Devry University March 28, 2014 Coco-Cola Vintage Ad Throughout its history Coco-Cola has always managed to use advertising as a powerful tool to create that special atmosphere in the minds of consumers that differentiates Coco-Cola from just some generic cola. In the past it was also extremely effective in advertising its product gaining a lot of market share and getting to the top of the market in terms of sales. The essay analyzes a vintage advertisement according to the rhetorical appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos and notes that Coco-Cola effectively uses appeals to authority, logic and emotions to make Coke a lifestyle, not just a drink. The vintage ad analyzed in the essay is a print ad that features the title Coco-Cola and the following text “Is a delightful palatable healthful beverage. It relives fatigue and is indispensable for business and professional men, students, wheelmen, athletes. It relieves mental and physical exhaustion. Is the favorite drink for ladies when thirsty, weary, despondent… Sold in bottles and at soda fountains for 5 cents. Newest refreshing drink in the world”. Clearly, the ad has many claims that nowadays would be consider illegal, inappropriate and simply false, yet back in the days, it was an example of what marketing was about : selling it at all cost even if it meant lying to the consumers. Although, to be fair, many other things, like heroine, morphine, cocaine and LSD were...
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...you, like your happiness, your own life and the lives of the ones you love. The ones that failed doing so always have reasons for making those horrible decisions, which would definitely change their lives in to something worse. Just think about it, do we want that to happen to us as well? In this essay, we will uncover some major causes, effects, strategies to prevent us from making immoral life decisions. The people that sink in the endless river of disastrous life decisions usually steps in to the river because of a few major causes. Major causes includes depression, and unfortunate choices of friends. Depression plays an enormous role in unfortunate life decisions. In most cases, people are depressed because of emotional depressions that they suffer in life, such as death of a loved one and the desire of respect. When people are depressed, they would start making dreadful decisions in order to use it as a depression reliever so that they would be able to keep their minds off events that they would like to forget. Slowly, they would realize that they cannot abandon once they began. Some people fell in the dark river because of the unfortunate choices of friends. Friends always play an important role in our everyday life, and they are one of the biggest influences that we get. Our friends are able to influence us in many ways. Small things like what to read next and vast things like what job to take in the future. Unsuccessful choices of friendships may lead to loss of well...
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...The Journey The short story ”A Journey” was written by the Irish writer, Colm Tóibín and was published in 2006. By analyzing examples from this text, this essay will first and include a characterization of the narrator Marry; secondly Marry’s relationship towards her son David and their relation to Mrs. Redmond. Thirdly comment on the title of the short story, and finally, a discussion of Andrew Sean Greer’s text “The story of a Marriage” and Paul Mathey’s oil painting will follow. The narrator faces several problems of life, such as her relationship to her son David, and the guilt she feel towards him. The narrator is a woman called Marry who is married to a man called Seamus, and they have a son called David. Marry and Seamus has been married for twenty years and after twenty years of marriage without children, they finally became blessed with a son called David. Or did they really become blessed? The story takes place in the narrator’s car, which is on her way back home with her clinically depressed son. The plot has several flashbacks from Marry’s life, especially memories about her son David, her husband Seamus and her father. One of the first flashbacks that appear is a flashback about her son David, “They were used to being free. Yet David did not really make the great change in their lives that she expected” (page 1, lines 13-14), this indicates that Mary and Seamus was not bonded with their son from the start, they were not ready having a child, although...
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...To the boy who breathes ashes and dust, whose eyes contain the most beautiful sunset. Whose smile beams like the moon kissing the skies at cold nights. Whose autumn hair dances waltz in the spring wind. Whose fingers are pointed and long, hand soft as a cotton that I wish to hold forever. The stars and you are the same. You are beautiful but only at a distance. And kissed me like sending a thousand lightning on my spine. I tasted salt in your mouth as if you drank the waters of the ocean; good thing you didn’t drown. My skin had blood marks on because you held me so tight that winter night. But that didn’t matter because I love you. And I mean it. -End- It’s a little bit funny how I cut fringes out of my long hair And I would feel very sad every time I look at the mirror. Like I was carry kettle bells with each of my finger I thought every girl in school was perfect and not fat And I curse myself for not being alike. I wasn’t good with words spoken or written, and I was ashamed of myself every time I stood in front to say , perhaps stutter. I look above with a beaten heart. The stars at night became my mother. My father was the moon. Or so I thought. As days went by, I became even sadder. I kept on dropping hints Of sadness and they fall like nothing. As nobody...
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...pression Affects College Students How Depression Affects College Students Nikki M. Broadnax Elementary Education Major Abstract The age group of depressed college students is 18 – 32 many students find the adjustment from high school to college difficult. Even the student that seems most at ease with their new lifestyle will often confess to moments of missing their familiar high school friends, family and other comforts of home. A study by UCLA reports that more than 25-30 percent of college freshmen say they feel overwhelmed most of the time in the beginning stages of college. Some students, however, find themselves feeling much more than simply overwhelmed. 2006 college seniors surveyed, the numbers has increased 50% since the 1970s. Unthinking depression has its peak in females between the ages of 18-40, and for males between 21-40, emphasize that depression occurs at all ages. The difference between adult and childhood pictures of depression have been attributed to an inability of the child to verbalized his or her affective state incomplete superego development, and absence of consistent self-representation. How Depression Affects In College Students More than 18 million adults, almost a tenth of the United States population above the age of 17-23, have been found to demonstrate symptoms of a depressive disorder each year (Rosack, July 8, 2010) Depression is defined as a state of intense sadness or despair that has progressed to a level that...
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...ever envisioned or planned the route to movie empires or giant theme parks? No, he had a dream, and the universe made it happen for him. After asking you virtualize, try to imagine yourself already obtaining your wish. Never ever do "negative" wishes ie "I don't want to be poor" because if you keep thinking you are poor, you will constantly be. Change it to "I want to be rich!". So no "I wish my mom will stop yelling at me." Say instead "My mom and I get along so well and for that I am thankful!" Other than making your wishes here's the hardest bit - ALWAYS HAVE GOOD EMOTIONS. The book says that there are only 2 kinds of emotions - GOOD AND BAD. Good is when you are happy, inspired, contented, hopeful etc... And the bad... Depression, disappointment, anger,...
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...Nancy starts off her lecture with many different way people seek happiness. There are over 2000 titles with advice on habits, secrets, steps and choices. There are also 120 million anti-depressants prescribed to patients seeking happiness around world. Finally in 1995 the drug business accounted for 8% of world trade, which is over 400 billion dollars, this is roughly the same percent as gas and oil. Studies show the lack of happiness across the world, and the rise of depression. The world’s health organization predicts that as of 2020 depression will be the second largest cause of disability. People have a balance of negative and positive emotional system. The negative system is tremendously sensitive to negative bias. People are born to like the taste of something sweet rather then bitter. People also hate the feeling of losing, but love the feeling of winning. There has been many updated studies on happiness, some think that just because on is not unhappy anymore it does not mean that they are happy. This only means that the person is unhappy, unhappiness and happiness do not meet at endpoints. Freudian’s scale of happiness showed that the more you grow unhappy, the more you continue onto the scale towards happiness, which is not accurate. Some positive offsets are people are generally above average when it comes to happiness. About 50% of one’s genes will determine their level of happiness. A study was done on patients recovering from surgery; there were some facing a brick...
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...many days to weeks and keep you from functioning normally, your depression may be something more than sadness. It may very well be clinical depression -- a treatable medical condition. How Do I Know If I Have Depression? According to the DSM-5, a manual used to diagnose mental disorders, depression occurs when you have at least five of the following symptoms at the same time: A depressed mood during most of the day, particularly in the morning Fatigue or loss of energy almost every day Feelings of worthlessness or guilt almost every day Impaired concentration, indecisiveness Insomnia (an inability to sleep) or hypersomnia (excessive sleeping) almost every day Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in almost all activities nearly every day Recurring thoughts of death or suicide (not just fearing death) A sense of restlessness or being slowed down Significant weight loss or weight gain A key sign of depression is either depressed mood or loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. For a diagnosis of depression, these signs should be present most of the day either daily or nearly daily for at least two weeks. In addition, the depressive symptoms need to cause clinically significant distress or impairment. They cannot be due to the direct effects of a substance, for example, a drug or medication. Nor can they be the result of a medical condition such as hypothyroidism. Symptoms of Depression According to the National Institute of Mental Health, people with...
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...Have you ever had a headache before? If so then you’re probably familiar with the pounding pain that wouldn’t go away. As I write this, the pounding sensation on the right side of my brain is undeniable. It has been there for almost two years and has remained twenty- four hours a day, seven days a week. Chronic migraines have an impact on every aspect of life. So you are probably wondering how this neurological disorder came about? Well I still don’t have an answer as to how it happened myself. It all occurred one evening in November on my way home from work. My vision rapidly began to blur until things were no longer visible in my right eye. Accompanying the vision was a sharp stabbing pain in my eye, which ran across the section of my right brain. I called my parents and was rushed to the emergency room. When I arrived they rushed me down to testing where they ran a CT which later returned normal. After testing returned normal they went through a medical history, gave me a shot of dilaudid, and sent me on my way home. I was hoping that would be the last time I would experience that pain and the last trip to the emergency room. Unfortunately, the pain continued for a week or two, along with the blurred vision. I decided to see my doctor, who sent me to an ophthalmologist, who then sent me to a neurologist. My pain continued to increase and I remained in a dark room, in bed a lot of the time. The ophthalmologist ran tests on my eyes and found decreased vision in my right...
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...Christina M Miller Keith O’Neill English 102 (Intro to Literature) 19 September 2014 The Story of an Hour In the story of an Hour we encounter a Victorian housewife that shows a reader in the present day that many feelings and self- expression have always been present. Mrs. Mallard a housewife in the Victorian era in the beginning of the story is told to have a slight heart issue which seems to play into the factor of how her sister and a friend of her husband decide how they will inform her of the news that her husband has been identified as one of the dead following a railroad accident. Mrs. Mallard takes the news of the death of her husband differently than many would expect. While she retreats to her room alone to gather her thoughts she starts to notice the beauty of what surrounds her. She seems to almost feel slightly bad for not grieving as she thought she was expected to. At this period in time women were seen as the weaker of the sexes and were expected to mourn their husbands until their own death. Another option being remarrying losing any right to their own property to their new husbands. Mrs. Mallard started to get an overwhelming feeling of freedom. She knew she could live on her own and did not need to feel the constraints of an unhappy marriage any longer. She daydreamed of a life filled with days of doing as she pleased without needing permission from her husband. While she was daydreaming she was actually able to enjoy the nature and beauty...
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...Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Schell’s dad dies in 9/11 and Oskar goes on a journey to find the answer to the key he found. He bumps into many different characters along the way that all show various ways of coping with death. Jonathan Safran Foer shows that through death and loss people can get through hard times. Characters deal with grief and loss in their own way in order to balance happiness and sadness. Oskar deals with grief in his own unique kind of way. He thinks you would never get hurt if you just never met anyone. Oskar tells the limo driver that it would be great to make a limo you could just walk through from birth to death but the driver says you would never meet anyone. Oskar says “So?” (5). To get something is to risk losing something. Oskar invents to get his mind off of things. Oskar says “Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing” (12). When Oskar’s dad died he starts inventing a lot more. Oskar also deals with his loss in ways most young children would not even think of, with self harm. Oskar says “Even though I knew I shouldn’t, I gave myself a bruise” (37) Whenever Oskar feels sad, alone, or guilty he bruises himself. He has over forty all over his body. In result of losing Anna, Thomas Sr. can never truly love or speak again. At first he loses the word Anna. Thomas Sr. says “...but I couldn’t finish the sentence, her name wouldn’t come” (16). Sometimes people can’t stand...
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...Topic: impact of depression On the academic productivity Of university stdents Introduction The assignment is based on the topic “the impact of depression on the academic productivity of university students”. The research is based on the causes and effects of depression. Depression is a state of the mind being caught up on a scenario or a situation and thinking over it continuously for more than the usual time. This could be days and weeks pass by thinking about one subject. There are four articles to support the relevant facts on the assignment ahead; discussions on some research that has been done. These have been obtained via Google scholar. Moreover, up ahead of this is the aim of the assignment, a literature review based on the four articles researched relevant to depression, and a conclusion, not leaving references. Aim: The aim of this assignment is to: * Choose a topic from the happiness website, * Find four articles relevant to the topic chosen, * And writing a literature review using the four articles. Literature Review Depression is an existence of a down feel mood in a person that interferes with a person’s normal function; it could also lead to emotional problems. All four of the articles were researched on how depression shows its impact on university students. The first article is about the relationship between depression, treatment and the academic performances on...
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