Loneliness

Many years ago, roughly around the age of 12 I was diagnosed with ADD. I was having failing grades, no friends, even my teacher told my mother and I that I was the worst student she had ever had and that I would never amount to anything. In addition to this I had constant migraines. I think out of 181 days I missed 178 of them because I was at home lying of the floor, in tears, in the blacked out bath room, trying not to vomit everywhere. These incidents are just the start of many issues in…

Teenagers are the future. It is the duty of the past generation to pave the way for the next one, and the number one duty is to keep them happy and healthy. This outreach program, “Operation Save-a-Life”, is focused around teenagers. More specifically, it focuses specifically on their mental health and well-being. “Major depression is a chronic,common disorder among adolescents, with lifetime recurrence rates estimated at about 70%, and most (40% to 60%) recurring within two years”(Birmaher et…

In America, approximately 19 million people are affected by depression. A major question raised by depression itself is whether depression is a pain-stricken illness or not. Is depression capable of confiscating day-to-day functioning? People who have not suffered directly from depression tend to feel as if depression is controllable, as if a person can just get rid of depression. I have chosen two pictures that accurately represent the way in which society treats a depressed individual. In the…

The subject that is at hand, I have unfortunately had a ton of experience with in my life. I have been in the United States Army for 6 years now, 5 years of Active Duty, 1 year in the Reserve component. I am also a combat veteran of Afghanistan as was in Kandahar, Afghanistan from December 2012 to September 2013. I have lost some of my closest friends due to self-harm or suicide after being diagnosed with depression and being diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, I as well have PTSD.…

The definition of solitude is the remoteness from habitations as of a place or absence of human activity. Humans tend to live around other people because it makes it easier to gain resources but are people truly capable nowadays of living in solitude in nature and surviving. In Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer Chris attempts to live in solitude but fails to survive. Even before he goes into the wild to endure this challenge human intervention does not allow him to gain an understanding of the…

In “The Social Networks” by Neal Gabler, he discusses the relationship that television has with its viewers. Gabler states that the amount of anti-social Americans is growing exponentially. He says that “television has become quite possibly the primary purveyor in American life of friendship and of the extended family is no recent blip.” What Gabler is trying to say is that shows like Friends and Seinfeld depict Americans as having a big circle of friends and family that constantly go over to…

Question/Purpose: How has pet therapy proven to be effective on children with disabilities or disorders in America? Has this therapeutic exercise, benefit in reducing impairment for those considered disabled? Often, we refer to, for example, dogs as companions, as friends, as an emotional or mental support system. But what is pet/animal therapy? It is a goal-directed intervention in which an animal meeting specific criteria is an integral part of the treatment process. Animal-assisted therapy…

Surrounded by flowers in a garden, filled with water beneath the skin. The dress spread throughout the water, the flower on one’s hand ran down her dress. Pale face with dry lips, eyes, mouth and hand open. Depression will make one make poor decisions in life. Ophelia preferred the easy way in life, instead of fighting the situation. A mind filled with dilemma that could not be solved and one does not have the strength of facing them. The depression didn’t give one the opportunity to…

be a sign of depression. This affects everyday life activities such as sleeping, eating, relationships, and it degrades a person’s self-esteem . As for the causes of depression , some reason can be for example loosing a loved one, family issues, loneliness, stress, not feeling good enough, having problems, etc. It is a known fact that depression can produce and have a really negative impact on people, however, there are different types of treatments that are designed to fight back against…

Gordon 5 destroy to create an adult?’. The depressed person, however, is the inversion of child and adult in that they tread the traceable threads back to childhood, against the forces towing the line towards adulthood. The child garners much glee when they begin to walk: “‘Now we have heard enough of the tight-rope walker; let us see him, too!’”. A ‘tightrope state’ in the ethical imprisonment of the ‘child’ (the ‘self as other’) and ethical administration by the ‘adult’ (the ‘self for other’).…