...My odyssey of depression? It seems as though depression is that clingy friend that won’t leave you. Depression is part of my me. He is tough to discuss, he is hard to understand and even harder to find and tougher to get rid of. My therapist always asks me to explain to him what bothering me ,because how do you explain what's going on in your head to someone else even a person who knows how to treat it. I don’t know why I have depression, is it because I am adopted. Is it group of people I hang around , or is it just my genetic makeup. Most people don’t know I have a mental illness. He usually comes out whenever he wants without letting me know. I was diagnosed with depression when I was 15 years old. At first I didn’t know it was depression, I thought it was my body changing from boy to man hood. It first showed glimpse of its capability. One day I was just fine at beginning of the period of class. Than after lunch I felt as though somebody had put a mask on me and I became that mask. As months past my...
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...Personal Statement This story revolves around my experience with depression at 14 years old. At that time we could say that I was healthy and happy, both personally and in school. However, a series of events related to the loss of some relatives important to me, that triggered a situation of depression, that I never saw coming and that by the time I realized I was completely immersed in it, I could not avoid. I remember the symptoms, living in what it seemed like an endless cloud of sorrows, without interest, indecisive, with low self-esteem, anxiety, and sadness. Just getting up to go to school was an ordeal, because I had no desire, no drive. In the morning, after a while of thinking about it, I would wake up and I would sit on the end of...
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...Depression is not an inclination, nor is it a feeling. It is an emotional instability that influences numerous individuals. It has been around for a huge number of years. Depression comes in numerous structures. It influences all races, ethnicities, and religions. Depression is defined as “a condition of mental disturbance characterized by such feelings to a greater degree than seems warranted by external conditions, typically with lack of energy and difficulty maintaining concentration or interest in life”. (New Oxford American Dictionary). Major depressive disorder also known as unipolar depression or recurrent depressive disorder is the most severe depressive disorder out of all of the depressive in my estimation. Major depressive disorder is a condition in which affects a person’s family, work or school life, sleeping, eating and general health. It is important to emphasize that we can understand the mechanics of this disorder and how it affects people with major depressive disorder. Etiology By understanding who gets a particular illness it is possible to better develop methods to control, treat, and prevent a particular condition. However, depression is so widely experienced by so many people it is important to establish the patterns that might further help manage this disorder. It is clear that depression impacts many people personality and professionally, it dramatically reduces the quality and quantity if creative and productive work and often ruining people’s careers...
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...Special Population: Depression Clarissa Wallace University of Phoenix BSHS/402 Debbie Prince April 7, 2011 Special Population Behavioral Health Treatment Depression * What populations have you reviewed and which one have you selected I reviewed Behavioral Health Treatment with emphasis on “Depression”. Depression, to some means nothing but to others it can ruin their life. This population was chosen because there is so much information that should be disseminated to the public, so we can better understand the individual is suffering from this illness. Depression is more than a feeling of just being it is a mind altering induced drug that can put a person in the dumps for a few days. There are more than 20 million people, starting at the age of 15 who suffers from depression and this feeling does not go away anytime soon. Depression can be hereditary in this population and if you do not know what to look for there is a chance that you may have it and not know it. There are several symptoms that persist and interfere with the daily lives of individuals who have this illness. Some symptoms associated with this illness: * Sadness * Loss of energy or interest * Loss of activities you enjoyed * Weight loss * Sleeping * Self worthiness * Thoughts of death or suicide The illness can vary from person to person. Even though there are treatments for depression, this can become a lifelong treatment for the client...
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...From the list of the three disorders, I have chosen depression because I have a few friends with depression. The key symptoms of depression are intense fellings of sadness, changes in appetite or sleep, and losing interest in things that one once loved. Also, people with depression, sometimes have a hard time getting out of bed because they do not know how they going to plan their day, such as, what to do, and where to go. Those people also have a hard time at making decisions because in their mind they feel like they are living a meaningless life. They sometimes think about commiting suicide (Nevid, 2015, pg. 504). The causes of depression varies for each individual because everyone experience it differently. It is heartbroken to say that women...
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...March 2014 Sadness/Depression Sadness and depression may seem similar in a lot of people’s eyes, however they both have a very different meaning. Sadness is the feeling of sorrow or grief. Being sad is more of a mood while depression is a clinical problem. Depression has a deeper meaning than sadness. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, categorizes depression as someone who is in a depressed mood and has a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities for more than two weeks. People who are depressed often feel like there is no way out and that is why depression can often lead to suicide. Some people may mistake sadness and depression for the same thing because they do have similarities. Sadness is often how depression starts out. Sadness can also be associated with grief. Grief is the response to a loss of someone and is associated with sadness. More people should look at sadness and grief as the same instead of sadness and depression. To know if you have depression, a diagnostic needs to be made by pointing out symptoms. Dr. Kramer believes that there are nine symptoms; if you have five out of those nine then you are depressed. The symptoms include: depressed mood, hard time having fun, no energy, can’t sleep, eating a lot, no desire for physical activity, feeling worthless, can’t concentrate, suicidal thoughts (Valiunas). All of those may seem like signs of just being sad, but as symptoms of depression, they are prolonged...
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...Depression within Holden Caulfield Depression is a mental illness that is very common among teens. Depression is a mental illness that is a feeling of intense of hopelessness and sadness. In the book, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Saligner, a high school student named Holden Caulfield loses his younger brother Allie to Leukemia. This leads to his depression and grief. In The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger uses multiple symbols to show Holden’s depression. In the following examples:the red hunting hat, a record called “Little Shirley Beans”, and the ducks from the Central Park It becomes clear to us that Holden Caulfied suffers from depression. Depression can emerge from a death of a loved one. The death of Holden’s little brother Allie took a big toll on him, causing him to drop out of school, feeling depressed as well as isolating himself from everyone. A symptom of depression is to be isolate one’s self...
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...When I was almost finish with getting my associate in business from Davenport Collage out of nowhere the core of my being was taken away from me my mother past away. Even though I had always been a strong and outgoing individual, I just lost it and shut down to the point where I could no longer be the mother I had always strives to be to both of my sons. I shut down to the point I let my sons go live with their fathers. I had always put my children first in my life. I would be at their schools either helping out in their classes or just volunteering at the school. Every day we did family time and every night I read to them. But after my mother’s passing something came over me that I did not understand, and I did not care to understand depression. At each passing day I could see and feel less and less of me until it got to the point I did not leave my house I stayed in bed day in and day out. I was in so much pain after my mother passing. The pain and hurt I was feeling at the time, and the feeling that I did not understand depression grew stronger each passing day until it had total control of me and my life for ten years. Depression itself does not show single handedly, but comes in many different faces. For example: 1. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) normally occurs during the winter months. Symptoms may surface as anxiety, irritability, and day time fatigue and weight gain. 2. Bipolar Disorder which is characterized by extreme lows and are followed by periods...
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...Do you ever look back at something and wonder how you let that happen? Sometimes it cannot be changed but you still have this feeling that you could have stopped it. I’ve always had anxiety, ever since I was little. I could more or less control it back then because it was minor. But senior year was different. My stress levels were skyrocketing and that is when it got bad. It sort of snuck up on me one day. I started feeling lethargic and I did not care about anything. It was like I was stuck in quicksand, just barely keeping my head above the surface. I did not feel like eating or socializing. All I wanted to do was sleep. I was irritable and I would cry at little things; I was a mess. My parents were worried and they decided to take me to see an endocrinologist to see if my hormones were unbalanced. I did not want to go but I eventually agreed just to see if these feelings would go away. My mom took me to see Dr. Muir and we sat in the examine room in silence until he came in. The whole time I could feel her looking at me and silently pleading with me to open up to her. But I would not because I knew it would upset her. We sat like that until the doctor came in; He was an older middle aged man with a kind face and receding hairline. He...
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...him I would be proud of my brother and probably brag of him to my friends because of course, he's my brother! But Holden called him a prostitute for making it to Hollywood just because he hates movies but as I further continued to read the book all the way to the eighth chapter I realized Holden may have a tough outer shell with all his cuss words and negativity towards others and basically life; I realized Holden has this inner goodness that people just don't see even though he despised his brother for being successful in Hollywood he still admired him as a writer and said he was one oh his top favorites. He also is kind of a "bad person" to his next door roommate Ackley by pointing out all his bad qualities like his pimples and how he was annoying as an introduction of his character in the novel but he showed his good side when he said he was comfortable with Ackley because he actually stayed in Ackleys room one night when he got punched by his room mate Stradler and asked if he could sleep on the vacant bed but he ended up not doing so because the owner might come back and get angry seeing someone sleeping on his bed; anyway, my point is Holden may have a tough outer shell but he has a soft heart in him and he subtly shows it in some part of the novel. Now, the part of him having depression, I say that he has all the reasons to be depressed, his younger brother died of leukemia at a very young age if that was me I would grieve for years at my age now but at his...
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...Running head: COMPASSION FATIGUE: CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER Compassion Fatigue: Caring for the Caregiver Kimberly Flowers Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V Patricia Mullen March 24, 2012 Compassion Fatigue: Caring for the Caregiver Introduction Compassion represents an “acknowledgement of another’s suffering and is accompanied by the expression of a desire to ease or end that suffering.” (Van der Cingal, 2009, p. 124) This is a fundamental characteristic usually found in health care workers and nurses especially. In one twelve hour shift, a nurse’s job can change from taking vitals and administering medications to performing life saving measures or even holding a dying patient’s hand as they transition from this world to the next. And in that same few hours, a myriad of emotions can flood the soul with such force it leaves one drained and exhausted. This would be a very difficult roller coaster of emotions for anyone, but multiply that times three or four days per week for many years. It is no surprise that health care workers are extremely susceptible to emotional and physical fatigue, also known as compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue is that fatigue brought on by giving so much of one’s self for an extended period of time without taking time to revive or replenish one’s own physical, emotional and spiritual needs. This paper will explore the nature and causes of five major...
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...Community Health Nursing SZT Task 2 My own perceptions about quality of life have affected my care for patients in end of life situations. I believe more of quality than quantity, several of my family members have died from cancer and secondary effects of treatment of the disease process. Three of my four grandparents have died from terminal cancer and it has taught me that the patient has to be an active part of the decision making for care. One of my grandfather’s chose not to receive any further treatment options other than palliative care after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s nodular lymphoma with metastasis to his liver and lungs. He chose this option to enjoy the remaining amount of life with his twelve grandchildren and wife. The physicians gave him limited experimental options for treatment with no surgical resolve and he asked the important question for him at the time. Will it prolong my life at the same quality that I have now? The physicians told him that it would probably prolong his life but much of it would be in hospitals and with progressed illness due to the treatments. This led to his choice for palliative care and he lived an additional three years. We enjoyed all of the time we had together and we as a family supported his decision. My other grandfather chose to pursue all of the medical options available to treat his Hodgkin’s lymphoma that was caught in the very early stages. He enjoyed a very long life to the age of ninety-two and survived the disease...
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...Cadet Ms. Sinisi English I - Honors May 14th, 2015 Depression Affects Us From the stages of a newborn to infancy to adolescence and later an adult, we all develop and grow out of habits and into new ones. From the day we took our first breath to the day we take our last one, we never cease to grow and to develop personally. However, there are events that occur in our life that take a toll on our personal development, such as clinical depression. Clinical depression is a conflict that happens within our minds and that hinders our growth. Depression, is a term we hear quite frequently and is used very vaguely, but what is depression? According to University Health Services Tang Center at Berkley, “clinical depression is a serious...
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...Frankenstein exhibits the negative effects of what isolation can do to a person or character. There is three characters who contribute to Frankenstein’s overall theme of depression and isolation. More specifically, the three characters who appear as narrator's experience the greatest distress and isolation. Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and Frankenstein’s creation. Each of the three characters experience their heartache in different ways and for differing reasons, but they can all relate because of the problems they go through in the novel. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, three of the main characters experience isolation, which causes them emotional instability and depression that leads to their awful and distressful lives. Frankenstein’s...
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...The problem with my client is that he is dealing with a lot of chronic grief. Yes, he is dealing with mild depression as well, but mostly I feel that grief plays huge role in his life right now. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders 2013, Consider that in grief the predominant affect is feelings of emptiness and loss, while in Major Depressive Disorder (MDE) it is persistent depressed mood and the inability to anticipate happiness or pleasure. The dysphoria in grief is likely to decrease in intensity over days to weeks and occurs in waves, the so-called pangs of grief. These waves tend to be associated with thoughts or reminders of the deceased. The depressed mood of MDE is more persistent and not tied to...
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