Grammatical mood

When I was a little, my mother made sure I was involved in sports. Although I’m a girl, she wanted me to focus only on sports, rather than learn how to walk in heals, which I still struggle with today. Tennis was the first sport I joined at the age of five, but that was not enough. As I began training for tennis tournaments, my coach decided that I need to join track in order to increase my speed on the court. For my mother that was a marvelous idea, but for me it was not as marvelous. The first…

are illnesses of the brain. When a patient is believed to be depressed, brain-imaging techniques have shown their brains are different from those of a patient who is not depressed. The parts of the brain that control thinking, sleeping, regulating mood, appetite and behavior in a patient suffering depression will function abnormally. The neurotransmitters in the depressed patient’s brain will appear to be out of balance. Often times, certain types of depression tend to run in families. Genetic…

Depression is a mood disorder. Teenagers often experience mood swings that cause them to feel good on one day, and become moody and miserable the next day. Depression can sometimes be misinterpreted as being in a bad mood but depression is more complicated. When depressed, the mind is taken over by worries, criticism, guilt and thoughts of suicide. A depressed teen seem to find no satisfaction and peace from dark, negative emotions and thoughts. This sense of hopelessness is why depressed teens…

Depression and Society Introduction Loneliness. Guilt. Dejection. Inadequacy. Despondency. At one point or another everyone has harbored feelings such as these. People with depression, however, don’t just relate to these emotions, they identify themselves with these feelings. Gilbert felt a heavy weight pulling deep within his stomach. As he lay in his bed, he began to search for whatever emotional baggage he had that was weighing him down, but strangely enough, he couldn’t find a single…

Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects 350 million people worldwide and it is one of the leading causes of disability (Marcus et. al, 2012). The effects of this mental health disorder extend to not only the individuals who are depressed, but also to those who are part of their interpersonal circle. For example, based on interviewer ratings, it has been reported that family members of patients suffering from MDD show higher levels of dysfunction in problem solving and affective involvement…

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…

Dysthymia and Depression: Would You Know It If You Saw It? He sees nothing but darkness, hopelessness, and despair. He is searching for the light at the end of the tunnel, but with no hope. Feeling worried and anxious, he struggles to fake that well-known smile. He is confused, struggling to understand his own feelings and emotions. He has a good life, has many good friends, and is a top student, with a happy family. He just cannot seem to put the pieces of the puzzle together and there…

On the other hand, we have Tiffany, who is depressed and have borderline personality disorder due to a car accident that killed her husband. Bipolar disorder, also called manic depression, is a disorder that causes abnormal changes is someone's mood, energy, activity levels, and much more. Behavior that's known as manic episodes, depressive episodes, and sometimes hypomanic episodes. Manic episodes cause people to be more active than usual with a lot of energy, have trouble…

Although dysthymia isn’t a very well know mental illness it is just as important as the other more common ones. With only 35 million people suffering from dysthymia compared to depressions 350 million victims, the majority of people don’t take much notice to dysthymia or the problems that it can cause. And the people that do happen to know about it usually can’t distinguish it from depression or they haven’t taken the time to really learn about it. Dysthymia (also known as chronic depression)…

(MDD) or Dysthymia and the activation of the amygdala in adolescents (Yang et al. 2010). Major Depressive Disorder is defined as a two week interval with sad mood, loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities, weight loss/gain, appetite loss, feelings of worthlessness, guilt and concentration difficulties. While Dysthymia is when a person’s mood is regularly low and symptoms are not as severe as MDD. (Monk,…