Ungifted Author: Gordon Korman Donovan Curtis was a delinquent 8th grader that attended Hardcastle Middle School. He was always in trouble because unlike most people, he didn’t think before doing anything he just did. Which is what caused him to somehow end up in the Academy for gifted students. Donovan he been outside the middle school during the basketball game against his school’s rival when he picked up a branch and whacked the statue standing in front of the building. The globe that had been
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Melancholia is the scientific name for depression, and is characterized for the inability to experience pleasure. It doesn’t just cause feeling unhappy or sadness, having depres-sion dominates everyday life and causes mental weakening. Some affects caused by depression include the loss of interests in everything including things they are most interested in, they get insomnia, experience change in weight, and feeling worth-less. Although there is a low percentage rate in adult depres-sion, adolescent
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This research paper discusses a published article titled, Major Depression in the Transition to Adulthood: Risks and Impairments that reports on the effects and risks of major depression in the transition to adulthood. It also explores the factors that cause depression in adolescents, such as poor quality of family life that includes neglect and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse within the family, which can have a profound impact on a child’s mental health and well-being. Health factors and illnesses
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Bipolar disorder represents a serious medical condition with a high rate of patients and a high degree of mortality (Kring, Davison, Neale & Johnson, 2005). The DSM-5 recognised three forms of disorder: bipolar 1 disorder, bipolar 2 disorder and cyclothymic disorder (Kring et.al). Manic symptoms are the defining features of each of these disorders, with varying frequencies and intensity (Perlis, Miyahara, Marangell, Wisniewski, Ostacher, DelBello & STEP-BD Investigators, 2004). These disorders are labelled
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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 of extreme highs. “Surveys from around the world indicate that between 1 and 2.6 percent of all adults suffer from a bipolar disorder at any given time (Merikangas et al.,2007; Kessler et al.,2005). The disorders appear to be equally common
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to drink in order to self-medicate their symptoms, and vary depending on the person. The most common psychological effects that people undergo are depression, dysthymia, anxiety, personality changes, compulsive behavior, denial, and co-occurring disorders (“Mental”). Depression refers to a serious medical illness that affects one’s thoughts, feelings, behavior, mood and physical health. Depression is a life-long condition in which periods of wellness alternate with recurrences of illness. Depression
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you may have felt elated, or extremely energized. When someone has a unipolar disorder, their sadness or elation are catapulted into extreme highs or lows, and this mania or depression has a significant effect on their abilities to function in their normal lives. When someone experiences both the extreme highs and lows of mania and depression alternately, they are diagnosed as bipolar. Depression is a continual disorder that affects between 5 and 10% of adults in the United States per year, and up
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twin has the disorder the other should also. Twin studies have found rates consistent with this expectation. Evaluation which supports genetic theory of unipolar depression includes from Harrington et al, who found a 20% likelihood of developing depression in those with a relative with depression, compared to 10% of those with no depressive relatives. This shows that it is twice as likely to develop depression if the individual has a close relative who has or has had the disorder, suggesting a
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Definition of adolescence and adolescent depression 2 2. Adolescent depressive symptoms 4 3. Problems with diagnosis of depression in adolescents 4 4. Gender factors that may play a role in assessing depression 6 5. Contextual factors that may play a role in assessing depression 8 6. Suicide 9 ‘Like anyone else, I have always had times when I felt deeply depressed, but this was something
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Most of us feel this way at one time or another for short periods. True clinical depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for a long period of time. There are several cultural factors that lead to such high rates of depression in the United States such as mental disorders, nutrition, and stress. A mental disorder may be defined as a significant impairment of an individual's cognitive, affective and/or relational
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