Affective neuroscience

Everyone who does not know about depression will be surprise of how often this problem affects our society. Depression is a serious condition that unfortunately it can happen at any age but it’s more common among teens. The effects that depression has can range from affecting a persons personality to affecting the ones who surrounds the individual with depression. some of the many ways in which depression can affect someone is by altering the way you feel, think and act. In addition, feeling…

According to the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, major depressive disorder can be defined as a depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities that lasts for two or more weeks at a time and has a significant impact on daily life. 25-year-old Tracy was referred to a mental health center when she began displaying symptoms of a depressive disorder that affected her daily functioning after her partner of two years "freaked out" and left her when she told him she was pregnant.…

Depression and Insecurity in Interpreter of Maladies All relationships and marriages run into problems at one point or another. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies she wrote about the various problems that come about in different relationships. There is no denying the fact that depression and insecurity are significant personal problems portrayed through the characters Jhumpa Lahiri created. A problem in some relationships is depression. In her article…

There are six types of depression. The types of depression are; Major depression, Persistent depressive disorder,Psychotic depression, postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder and manic depressive illness. From the organization NIH it states that “Major depressive disorder is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States. About 6.7% of U.S adults experience major depressive disorder a year (NIH). Women are 70 % more likely than men to experience depression during their…

Gothic Story Depression: feelings of severe despondency and dejection. To have a gloomy or upsetting mood that can happen after a tormenting experience in one’s life. This is exactly how I felt. London, 1845, the well known and proud Victorian era which was ruled by Queen Victoria I. The moon had vanished in the midnight sky as the clouds crawled over it. The air started to make a lullaby in my ear, like a music box for little children. The horse’s clipped and clopped along the old concrete…

In the real world, people deal with the feeling of being alone and not being able to cope with it. Many people get depressed when they have nobody to talk to and tend to feel alone and have no one to turn to. J.D. Salinger taps into this in his 1951 book, The Catcher in the Rye. This book has been banned in multiple libraries and schools all around the United States, and is very good at describing the life of one who has lost so much and has nobody to turn to. The book is about a depressed teen…

5.What is the purpose and recommended use of the measure? The BDI-II is a self-report questionnaire that measures the severity of depression with 21 items (Bringmann, Lemmens, Huibers, Borsboom & Tuerlinckx, 2015). The highest score that can occur on this measure is 63 (highest severity of depressive symptoms), and the lowest score that can be achieved is 0. The items were designed to identify symptoms of depression as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth…

Depression is a main theme in Thirteen Reasons Why. This condition, which “20 percent of teens will experience,” influenced many of the main character’s actions and heavily dictated the plot of the story right up to Hannah Baker’s last decision (Camping). This novel follows an in-depth examination of the chain of events causing Hannah’s depression and observes the repercussions of it. A major part of Hannah’s depression was caused because she was made to feel worthless by those around her. The…

When actors ruminate for an extended period of time, their friends and family become frustrated and often pull away leaving that actor alone and isolated. Method actors tend to forget themselves. This is due to emotional memory: otherwise known as empathy. If not trained properly, method actors will push the limits to the point where the emotional memory alters the actor’s mind. Many method actors are not trained to control emotional memory; therefore actors might experience emotional…

Is Barbie Still Barbie If She Only Has One Arm? Our bodies are what the outside world sees of us. Only we experience the personal memories contained within our bodies. Scars that appear on our bodies tell stories of the challenges we have faced throughout our lives and remind us of those experiences. Those scars will remain on our body for the rest of our lives and impact the way we see and treat ourselves, as well as the way others see and treat us. Disfigured or “abnormal” bodies cause the…