DSM-IV Reflection

The DSM-IV describes a major depressive order on a base level as a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities for more than two weeks. a mood changed from the persons baselines and an impaired function: social, occupational, or educational. I have gone days, weeks, months feeling this way. Numerous times these feelings of hopelessness and isolation became so severe I would attempt to an multiple occasions try and take my own life. I would lay around day in day out just repeating to myself that I was worthless, That the damaging events that had occurred in my life happened to me since I deserved it, That maybe if I had just a little been better this would not be an issue. I would become angry at myself for the reason that I had no justifiable …show more content…
The staff there put me on antidepressants which improved my life dramatically. I needed the time to realize that there was nothing wrong in taking different prescriptions, there is no shame being medicated. Medication is only there to help. If I was suffering from a depressive disorder the medication would help. During my stay I was made to attend various “groups”. Each group had a different topic, the groups were set up in a way that the information you learned would help you even after you left the hospital. While there, I learned quite a bit about cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a short-term psychotherapy that takes a personal approach to learning how to cope with what life throws at you. Its goal is to change patterns of thinking that is behind difficulties, and by changing the way the person thinks and acts it changes how they feel. Identifying unhealthy thinking was key to me improving how I felt. I needed to learn how to shut out and replace negative thinking with positive thinking. Turn the thoughts of “life would be easier for everyone if I was dead” to “I have value, worth, people care about me”. I needed to learn not to just assume I was a bother, to communicate with people for the sake of the people who do care. The insanely important task I learned was how to talk about my emotions. Talking is the biggest aspect of receiving help. I needed have the …show more content…
I will be using the skills the people there taught me to keep my life on track and not to spiral into a deep pit of depression again. As for the impact this has left on my life well it is massive. I will never be able to forget the range of emotions I felt while there. The staffs caring will stick with me forever, because there is people who do not know any of the people who came in there, but still took the time to help us and talk to us. I never felt as if any of the staff was there just for the paycheck. Those people unquestionably cared about us, and if they do that must mean others care as