Depression Rough Draft Depression is an illness that can be either clinical or regular depression. If you are feeling down or sad for two or more weeks without improvement, it is likely you have clinical depression. Clinical depression is treatable with both medication and counseling. A lot of people suffer from depression ( about 20% of people). That 20% of people could have a different serotonin and norepinephrine.…
Dysthymia with is a mild form and if someone were to have depression for at least 2 years. Perinatal depression also known as post-partum depression caused by a hormone imbalance due to child birth. Psychotic depression which is a more severe case which means they also have some form of other disorder along with depression. Seasonal affective disorder which is common in Northern states where the weather is very gloomy during the Winter months. Bi-polar disorder which is different than depression, but seems to fall under the same symptoms as severe depression, but with more extreme highs and lows.…
Women are the ones who get this type of depression. Most women feel extremely sad and are overly exhausted. A third type of depression is psychotic depression. This occurs when a person is severely depressed and has a form of psychosis. Most of the time this means delusions.…
In fact, it is even associated with sunlight. One may experience depression during the time of year when there is less sunlight, so during late autumn and winter months. Because of the feelings of depression, people often times become more reclusive and don’t want to participate in activities they may have found enjoyable during the spring or summer. This may cause someone to gain excess weight, and create feelings of being tired and of low energy. What is different about SAD and major depression is that SAD goes away during other times of year, directly proportional to changing sunlight patterns, whereas major depression does not follow any seasonal patterns and must be present over a two-year span to be diagnosed.…
Most types of depression have very similar symptoms. These include aspects of a person’s life…
Depression is a condition that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and dejection. Although depression can be inherited or be caused by unbalanced hormones or brain chemicals, it is caused by multiple stressful events in most cases. Those events can be a traumatic childhood, death of a loved one, suicide in the family, self-esteem problems, health problems, or alcoholism. Usually, depression shows a variety of symptoms physically, emotionally, and mentally. Some of the symptoms are sadness, loneliness, loss of interest, unexplained aches, risky behavior, anger, change in diet or sleeping patterns (oversleeping or insomnia), guilt, self-criticism, and possibly self-harm or suicidal thoughts.…
These particular differences between general sadness and clinical depression demonstrate the importance of recognizing the distinctions between the two. According to DSM-5, clinical depression, or major depressive disorder, includes experiencing 5 out of 9 specific symptoms nearly every day. Such symptoms include change in sleep patterns, change in activity,…
There are many different types of depression somee ranging to less severe to high risk severity. A high risk depression is called major depression. This is one of the many severe depression. Most common way to spot it is if you are severely depressed throughout the week.…
Once upon a time, many believed the concept of seasonal anxiety or seasonal affective disorder was just some myth made up by those who couldn't handle life. This mistake was partly due to lack of research. However, that has begun to change in recent years as more researchers have invested time determining the causes, symptoms and treatments for the disorder. The condition is generally seen during the winter, when days become shorter, the sky is often overcast and general gloom sets in.…
The National Institute of Mental Health states Major depression is serve symptoms that interfere with an individual’s ability to work, sleep, study, eat, and enjoy life (NIMH). Symptoms of this diagnoses is being depressed most of the day, pleasure and interest is reduced, significant weight loss, loss of energy, inability to concentrate and or recurrent thoughts of death (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The prevalence rate of this diagnosis is a 12 month occurrence of 7%, individuals 18-29 are higher than individuals 60 year or older, and from early adolescence, females experience 1.5 to 3 higher rates than males (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the statistics for depression is that 9% of adult Americans have feelings of depression and about 3 % of adults have major depression, also known as major depressive disorder (Illiades, 2013).…
Chapter 1: Define the seven major perspectives in psychology and describe how each may explain how a person may develop depression. In psychology there is seven major perspectives or as some call them, approaches. These approaches as a whole represents and defines psychology.…
Some people may not realize it but weather can impact your health and well-being. There are many ways weather impacts a person. Seeing how everyone is different the effects are different as well. Wintertime brings some people down, while violence has been tied to the hotter months of the year. Extreme weather like hurricanes or blizzards can impact mental health problems.…
Depression isn’t like a cold or allergies, it doesn’t just come and go. There is always a reason for someone to be diagnosed with this condition and it takes a little while for people to fall so low into this stage. Depression is a serious medical condition in which someone feels constantly sad, lazy and hopeless. It causes people to not be social, constantly drag themselves around miserably and think suicidal thoughts. Many people get into a state of sadness here and there but that doesn’t always mean they are depressed, it is a disease that controls someones emotions to make them feel no emotion, whether good or bad.…
If depression gets to bad then there could be thoughts or suicide or even death. There are different types of depression moods such as major depression, psychotic depression, and seasonal affective disorder. (Nation Institute of Mental Health/Depression) (WebMD, Depresson Health Center, Depression…
Depression among college students. Depression is a state of intense sadness or despair that is troublesome to an individual’s social functioning and the basic activities of daily living. Depression is currently a critical issue among college students. Depression can make college students to be socially withdrawn and this can result to them taking drugs and engaging in all sorts of dangerous activities like smoking. College students get depressed from so many things like the pressure of getting good grades in college, and financial problems.…