Stressful Life Situations

Every person, at least once, have had and have encountered stressful life situations and problems. We might or might not notice that such stressful life situations and problems bring emotional and psychological consequences or effects to an individual such as sadness, hopelessness, and frustration that may lead do serious depression. The relationship between stressful life situations and problems, and depression is a cause and effects relationship. Exposure to such situations problems cause a disturbance to an individual’s emotion and feelings, thus making him or her more sensitive, thus more likely to experience depression. In some cases, being exposed to such stressful life situations and problems can cause depression to teenagers. “The problems they mostly encounter trigger their emotions such as sadness, as defined to be a depression. Since teenagers are very prone to have such weak emotional conditions. Thus, depression is easily manifested and hardly managed” (C.A. Panglinan, …show more content…
Having any chronic disease can trigger depression. The more severe the illness is, and the more intense the life disruption which the illness causes, the higher is the risk of having depression. According to a Haines (2005), “The Risk of getting depression is generally 10-25% for women and 5-12% for men. However, those with chronic illnesses face much higher risk – between 25-33%.” It is much higher because those who deal with serious diseases tend to be very sad because of the pain they are dealing with. People who have serious health problems experience deep sadness and hopelessness because the disease itself has an impact on the person’s mobility, emotion, and the way he or she sees life as consequences of the disease and its treatment (Haides, MD, 2005). Some of these chronic diseases are cancer, heart attack, parkinson’s disease, stroke, and