Depression

Is occasional depression a natural state to an extent, and is the culture too eager to treat this as a disorder? Many people experience situations in daily life that trigger feelings of loneliness, rejection, debilitating fear, anxiety, and even grief. How our mind and body react to those feelings can be different for each person. Although some believe depression is just a natural state, the truth is it is a serious disorder that takes place mainly in children, causing them to harm themselves, and leads them to look at the world differently. Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think and behave and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems.…

Mental illness are different types of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior. Depression and manic depression are two out of many mental illnesses. Depression is a mood disorder that causes a feeling of sadness, affects how you think, and also cause loss of interest. Manic depression are mood changes that go from rare highs and lows. Depression is a very typical mental disorder. About 350 million people of all ages around the world suffer from it. Women are more likely to have it…

Depression is more than just a rough patch or feelings of sadness. While a depressed person may appear to be having a hard time, their internal battle is more than could be understood by someone who has never been depressed. Typically, a depressed person is overtaken with feelings of sadness, emptiness, and despair to the point of believing that they are unloved and incapable of loving. Emptiness outweighs the rest. "Emptiness is a never ending feeling. Emptiness and helplessness often come hand…

indicated that Lincoln’s depression was biological. One could also argue that through Lincoln’s childhood misfortunes, such as the death of his brother and mother from illness and disease, a foundation was laid for his melancholy episodes in later life. Growing up in life, Lincoln’s voracious appetite for reading and writing poetry, along with a desire for self-education, lead his father to view him as lazy which…

these people that we have a major sense of “But what have they got to be depressed about?” Good point ... same back at you. Depression is not a respecter of persons, and neither is it an honest illness. If you are surprised that some of these people can consider themselves failures, then perhaps you can finally understand that this is an illness attacking without respect, without integrity and without truth. Feeling you are a failure does not necessarily…

Review of Literature The Beginnings In fifth century that Hippocrates and his associates gave the description of depression as “Fear or sadness that last a long time mean melancholia” (Hippocrates, 1923–1931, Vol. IV, p. 185) in Greek. They defined it in a way similar to what we understand it as presently having deep sadness, worthlessness, helplessness and hopelessness as the core symptoms and related symptoms like decreased interest in usual activities, social detachment, decreased sleep and…

Pathophysiology Depression is a mood disorder that affects an estimated 350 million people around the world (World Health Organization, 2015). Depression is different from usual mood fluctuations and responses to everyday challenges. Depression is a serious condition that can cause feelings of sadness, hopelessness, emptiness, worthlessness, guilt or shame. People affected by depression can lose interest in activities that were once meaningful to them, have problems with concentration,…

Depression and Anxiety is a health problem experienced by many college students around the world. The rates of Depression are on the rise, with many college students experiencing symptoms that have a negative impact on academic performance and the quality of life. According to the Center for Disease Control (2008), in 2005 and 2006, 1 out of 20 Americans 12 years of age and older reported having current depression. Lindsey, Fabiano, and Stark (2009) found that 1 and 4 college students…

complete despair, a cloak of depression. It was a fog that moved in slowly and steadily. Till I couldn’t tell right from left and up from down, it was the outcome of a vision concealed with a blanket of depression. Vapors of depression integrated with my thoughts and feelings, that’s when I lost myself. What vanished was my will to live, life then became this hollow landscape that I aimlessly wandered through without knowing what I was seeking. Then, my bleak and hopeless thoughts embraced…

Depression is a prevalent and potentially debilitating condition that is projected to become to become the most burdensome disease worldwide by 2030 (Aikens, Trivedi, Heapy, Pfeiffer, and Piette, 2015). Depression is associated with poor adherence to medical regimes and treatment in patients with comorbid medical conditions (Bajracharya, Summers, Amatya, and DeBlieck, 2016). An advanced nurse practitioner must incorporate an early mental health screening tool (Patient Health Questioneer-2 and 9)…