Benefits Of Depression By Nancy Andreasen

Depression- the most diagnosed mental illness in the world- is also the most misunderstood. Depression?a sad or discontented mood?can leave a person feeling lethargic, unmotivated, or hopeless, and in some cases ? contemplate suicide. Unfortunately, depression usually begins as high levels of anxiety and with exposure to trauma in children. Higher levels of anxiety or exposure to stress-inducing and traumatic situations as a child could mean an increased risk of depression as an adult. Although a serious mental illness all over the world in

So this quote explains why depression is significant and problematic to an individual. Depression is a recurring theme in the two stories Herman Melville's “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist”. The stories have a connection of depression because each character develops similar tendencies such as loss of appetite, lack of motivation, and insomnia. The authors of the short stories experienced similar effects in their lifetime so the stories were influenced by their personal lives.

Depression is very present in his poetry. Depression from PTSD or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is even more common in his stories. Depression is a ‘mood disorder’ that causes extreme sadness and effects how you live everyday. PTSD is a illness that takes place after a‘shocking, scary, or dangerous event’ (Li.)

“Recent data estimate the overall prevalence of depression at about 11.1% of the American population, or nearly 35 million individuals (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). A predictive models suggest that up to 50% of the population will experience at least one episode of depression during their lives” (Life Extension, 2014). Depression has negatively affected the lives of many individuals throughout the world. Look around you there may even be someone close to you that is demonstrating signs of its stifling affects. Depression does not discriminate with its suffocating

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe lived a sad, pitiful life. His poems are depressing and they often revolve around death, loss of a loved one, or something of the like. He is genuinely a dark person. Edgar Allan Poe has a truly dark way of writing and describing not only how he feels, but also the way he perceives reality around him.

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Depression is intoxicating. She has celestial silver skin and Her eyes are stormy gray with hints of ocean wave from within. When the light hits just right, they reflect a peaceful time when everything at night came to life. She once disguised herself as a companion to me and my best friend, Imagination, an artist with cotton candy hair and emerald eyes. Imagination, Happiness, Compassion, Idealism, Ambition and I had found a home in each other. We would sit all day coloring in abstract patterns with blended water color or riding horses through lively fields of painted grass. We would drone on and on about the future and how we would do this, that, and endless others. Idealism, Ambition, and Compassion set their elaborate plan for us being humble millionaires who would make the world a better place. In unison we always said, “We have potential.” That was until Depression started tagging along. We tried to help Her fit in, but Her water colors smudged in all the wrong places and She had to start again. All the horses ran from Her, grass wept

Sadness, guilt, and fear are some of the most negative emotions that humanity can experience, however they are also the strongest. Edgar Allan Poe, a nineteenth century author and poet, is known primarily for his use of these emotions, as well as the results that may come from these emotions, such as substance abuse, depression, and death. However, the ability to write such elegant, sophisticated works that delve into the very dark recesses of the human mind reflects greatly upon the author himself. Repetitive themes found both in Poe’s stories and in his life deliver insight on the inspiration for this author’s stories. Poe uses themes of death, illness, and depression in order to reflect his own experiences within his writing.

Poe’s life may as well have been one of his own depressing stories as there is no wonder so much depression and sadness can be seen in his

I’ve heard that depressed people make the best poets. This is a pretty good example. Lloyd Brown constant use of complex vocabulary and sentence structure, paired with his use of imagery and personification in many of the ideas and supporting details he presents, makes this paper seem more like a free-verse poem rather than an essay. Every idea he introduces is either an elaboration or an extension of an idea previously mentioned, which is good when writing an essay. The voice is a little too difficult for me to understand exactly what Brown intended to say, but I’m sure that readers with more experience with complex literature than me would enjoy this thoroughly.

Depression changed the way I see the world, and changed the way that I treat people; this rough patch taught me to trust in others instead of trying to do everything by myself, in addition to trust, I learned to respect others because what is going on in their life is may not always be shown on the

The Oscar-nominated documentary “Waste Land” leads a controversial issue related to depression and the treatments of depression. The question that stems from the controversy is does the use of art therapy actually cope with the symptoms of depression. An artist by the name of Vik Muniz contends to the idea that art therapy is considered a coping method for depression, and helps with the effects of depression. The individuals within the documentary have a background of poverty, and with poverty comes depression, but that does not stop them from their everyday tasks. The individuals spoken about throughout the documentary, have a work ethic that will leave you speechless. Although, when the issue of depression is brought upon others, most

Stress and situational depression are seen as just a part of life. As people grow and experience life they encounter events that trigger stress and signs of depression. These events can include changes in the professional world, death, and academics. Changes in mood such as these are temporary, and are pretty common. Aside from these normal occurrences actual depression, or clinical depression, is seen in 1 in 10 Americans. Clinical depression is a mental illness that that can prohibit normal daily functioning. In this assignment I will examine two forms of clinical depression, unipolar, and bipolar depression.

"The Scream," a painting by “Edvard Munch, who suffered from depression, agoraphobia, and had hallucinations”, “Vincent van Gogh, said to have suffered from “depression bipolar disorder, hallucinations and epilepsy”. He ultimately committed suicide in 1890 at the age of 37, Sylvia Plath, an early confessional poet, “famously detailed her depression and told her story on the page, both in novel form with "The Bell Jar" and in her poems, put “her head in the oven and committed suicide”, “Georgia O'Keeffe, suffered from anxiety and depression”, “Novelist Virginia Woolf, had depression and drowned herself, ”US author and journalist Ernest Hemingway”, who wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, had depression and killed himself with a shotgun.

Depression have become a major problem in our society today. People who haven’t experience depression will not understand how it feel and what it can do to a person. Many people also doesn’t understand what depression is, or how it can related to suicidal ideation. In fact, studies have documented that the majority of young suicide victims had depression at the time of death and most suicide survivors were diagnosed with symptoms of clinical depression at the time of their attempt (Mojs, Biederman, Głowacka, Strzelecki, Ziemska, Samborski 2015). It can affect anyone, from young adolescents to college students to the elderly people. There are many reasons that can make someone have major depression. Such as financial problems, family problems, social problems, school, work, etc. These stressors in our daily life can cause anxiety which can increase our stress level significantly, which then can lead to depression. A research said that anxiety disorder have a high comorbidity with depression and that anxiety occur prior to the onset of depressive disorders in many individuals (Batterham, Christensen, Calear 2013). People who experience depression must find way to cope with depression and know how to get help in order to prevent suicidal ideation. The people surroundings, friends and family, must also find ways to recognize the symptoms of depression, and show understandings in order to help those suffering. This research project will help people understand more about