Dysthymia

Experiencing depression can lead to many things . My Depression started the year of 2010. That year started a new lifestyle for me . My whole life came crumbling down into tiny pieces . Me longing for this not to happen was not enough to stop this Disease . Honestly nothing can stop this Disease. Its eternal for the rest of my life and it is no cure for it . Being so young feeling like I'm a animal that the doctor kept running test on months after months after months . Several months I had to…

3.1.2 Burnout Maslach (2015:929) as well as Maslach and Leiter (2007:368) define burnout as a psychological syndrome that develops in response to chronic emotional and interpersonal job stressors. According to Maslash, the three defining components of this syndrome are exhaustion, cynicism and detachment from the job, a sense of inefficacy and reduced accomplishment. Some of the burnout symptoms can include, according to Edward and Hercelinskyj (2007:240) and Portnoy (2011:47), chronic fatigue,…

5. DEPRESSION OF GROWING CONCERN Introduction Depression is less predominant among older adults than among younger adults but can have serious consequences. Depression in older adults differs in both subtle and obvious ways from depression earlier in the lifespan. Exhibition, ethology, risk and protective factors, and potential outcomes all reflect aspects of the older adult’s position in the lifespan. Information of the way in which age may alter factors associated with the onset and…

Taylor Swift is famous for songs such as ‘Shake it off’ and ‘Blank Space.’ Recently, Swift was sued by a fellow singer, Jesse Braham, for stealing the lyrics “Shake it off.” Jesse Braham was seeking a compensation lump sum of 42 million dollars, from Taylor Swift for plagiarizing his music. The lawsuit led to Taylor Swift having sleepless nights for two weeks as she awaited the ruling of the case (Plucinska, 2015). Law analysts postulated that the lawsuit could be successful implying Swift could…

Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental illness? What was once an idea of human sadness and compassion is now the idea that anyone who suffers from normal sadness, because of societal or personal reasons, is not happy enough and requires medication. The author, Sharon Begley, wrote a piece called “Happiness: Enough Already. This piece focuses on how society is turning into a group of people that believes they will never be happy enough. The tone is centered on fact and it conveys a…

Everybody has different challenges to face throughout his or her lifetime. Many people suffer from chronic diseases such as asthma, arthritis, or lung disease. Others suffer from clinical depression or extreme cases of anxiety. Despite the challenges one may go through the pursuit of happiness and the desire to find joy in the journey is the ultimate goal. The music video “Color Green,” by New Politics uses pathos, imagery, exaggeration, similes and paradoxes to effectively illustrate that…

According to the American Psychiatric Association (2017), depression is “a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act causing feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed.” In the individual sporting world, failure is predisposed onto the athlete. Regardless of whether an athlete participates within an individual sport or a team sport, genetics or chemical imbalances may influence the development of…

Depression: A State of Mind Phony: “not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit” (Dictionary.com). This one word is Holden Caulfield’s favorite word. Holden Caulfield is the protagonist and narrator of the novel The Catcher in The Rye, written by J.D. Salinger. Holden is a lonely seventeen-year old who has been expelled from the prestigious, all boy academy, Pencey Prep. He is a very judgemental and hypocritical person to the surrounding world, and tries to protect his innocence as a child to…

Unit Test A.) Susan is a 40 year old mother of one child. A couple months ago, Susan was playing outside with her youngest daughter when she went inside for two minutes to gather their afternoon snack; leaving her daughter outside all by herself. As Susan walked down the steps from the house, she saw her daughter’s ball in the street and her daughter running to get it. All of a sudden, a car came barreling around the corner and Susan could not do anything as the car smashed into her daughter.…

This intervention is directed at promoting and preventing depression in New Zealand adolescents. In order to achieve better mental health for adolescences, the target group for my intervention will be focused on small children, those aged from kindergarten to primary school. The purpose of the intervention is to provide children with the necessary resilience and barriers against depression during their future adolescence years. Dunnachie (2007) defines depression in adolescence as “a diagnosis…