Depression In Adulthood Essay

The purpose of this paper is to help the reader better understand how depression affects the development a person goes through in young adulthood. Depression is a mood disorder that causes a constant feeling of sadness and/or disinterest. According to Mayo Clinic, another name for major depression is also clinical depression; this will also affect a person’s thought process, feelings and behaviors which, depending on the seriousness of the disorder, it could lead to physical and/or emotional challenges. A person who suffers from depression often have trouble completing day-to-day activities and/or sometimes lose the wish to live. Depression is more than just sadness; a person who suffers from depression may need long-term treatment, but most people with depression feel better by taking prescribed medication and/or seeking professional help such as psychotherapy. The National Institute of Mental Health states this form of therapy is when the person talks about their feelings to a …show more content…
The ignorance beforehand was that a person could control his/her emotions/moods, but after doing the research, it is more realized that the reason mood disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are all neuropsychiatric disorders which mean that no one has control over the way the brain reacts to stress, but with the correct methods of treatment the mood disorders could be reduced, or in some cases stopped completely. There is no known cause for depression officially, but there are many contributing factors that may influence the mood disorder. Advocates for Youth's state that a variety of factors that could be involved are changes in the body’s balance (hormones), the chemicals in the brain could be out of whack, it could be an inherited trait from other family members, and/or it may just be a biological