Long Depression

rest of your life? Many depressed people spend their days doing exactly that. The explanation? Depression deprives people of daily activities and takes up all their energy. Sometimes they can’t even bother to get out of bed to cook for themselves, more or less for their children. This mental illness is very common in our world, keeping millions from living a healthy life. Many things can cause depression or anxiety, such as alcoholism. To many people, the term alcoholism means a drinking…

Day in the Life of a Social Scientist Christiana Ramirez August 15, 2014 When people think of depression many misunderstand the fact that depression is a mental illness and needs to be taken very seriously. Nowadays it seems more and more people are battling with this mental illness, and are not really sure what to do. Chris has been battling depression for about 12 years. “Depression may be described as feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps. Most of us feel this…

“Depression is not the same as a passing blue mood. It is not a sign of personal weakness or a condition that can be wished away. People with depression cannot merely ‘pull themselves together’ and get better” (“Definition of Depression” 1). Although there are countless mental disorders known in the medical community, depression has become one of the most prevalent issues concerning mental health. With this being such an issue, more light has been shown on mental health and how to assist someone…

Major depressive disorder also known as clinical depression is a mood disorder involving sadness, feelings of worthlessness, loss of interest in someone’s usual activities and changes in one’s activities such as sleep and appetite that persist over a period of at least two weeks. (Textbook) To be diagnosed with depression a person must have at least four other symptoms of depression and these symptoms should be severe enough that they interfere with a person’s day to day life and prevent them…

Depression can manifest itself in a variety of ways, which can include feelings of worthlessness and helplessness, a loss of interest in usual hobbies and activities, and thoughts of death and suicide. People who are depressed sometimes do not feel sad at all, but instead feel restless and irritable, and some patients can have physical symptoms like muscle pain and headaches. Symptoms of depression must be present for two weeks nearly every day for it to be considered major depression, although…

I'm not sure what I'm looking for by posting this here, however, I felt that this subreddit would be the best place to post. I haven't been diagnosed with depression officially, but I have struggled with depressive thoughts/self hatred and everything else that comes in that package for years. In a lot of ways, I've overcome it, but I still carry that burden upon my shoulders. I didn't have friends as a kid. I went to a private school, and my classmates came from broken backgrounds. There…

Unhappiness or feeling moody is a normal reaction to life’s struggles and disappointments. Many people use the words “I’m depressed” to explain these kinds of feelings, but depression is much more than that; it affects the person physically, emotionally and socially. Depressive disorders are disruptive in mood lasting weeks to several months; and while still on the disruptive mood, the client will suffer from despondency, irritability, and restlessness and gradually mental process and…

Depression, contrary to popular belief, is not a simple low admits the highs in a person's life or a simple phrase that a person has yet to grow out of. Depression is commonly mistaken for anxiety or sadness, and it is highly stigmatised all over the world. In reality depression is a much more serious issue. Depression, or clinically known as Major Depressive Disorder, is described as a “clinical term used by psychiatrists to define a time length longer than two months where a person feels…

sometimes or have a reaction to a challenge,depression changes how you feel every second of the day, it's not short lived. It is a very common mental disorder, characterized by sadness, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, feelings of tiredness, and poor concentration. Although we know many effective treatments for depression fewer than half and in some countries fewer than ten percent affected by depression receive these treatments.…

that a substantial amount of factors are involved with the aetiology of the depression (Burton, Westen & Kowalski, 2009). Depression can refer to a mood or to a clinical syndrome, consisting of emotional, cognitive and behavioural symptoms (Oltmanns & Emery, 2015). Cognitive theories of depression focus on identifying the origins of depression in dysfunctional patterns of thinking while behavioural theories of depression aim to explain the aetiology of the disorder while stressing the role…