Case Study Bill

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, depression is the leading cause of disability in America for people ages 15 to 44. Unfortunately, it is still widely misunderstood, which causes people to neglect themselves. There are so many different forms, the most major two being major depressive disorder and dysthymia. Symptoms can vary in the way they manifest themselves, and causes are still widely unknown. Luckily, there are many treatment options available. Understanding depression is the best way to combat it.

Mental disorders can be diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence. Major depression is a lost of interest or pleasure in all activities. People with major depression experience symptoms such as a change of appetite, restlessness sleep, decreased energy, feeling of worthlessness, difficulty concentrating, and/or suicidal thoughts. A major depressive episode can lasts for about 2 weeks or more. A major depressive episode can be caused by stress, social anxiety, or other reasons. People with a milder depression are able to function and seem normal (DSM-IV-TR). A major depressive disorder affects about 14.8 million adults in America with 6.7 million at age 18 and older in the United States population. A depressive disorder can develop in any age and more likely to occur more often in women than in men and any person who is going through a hard time can develop depression. A treatment for individuals with depression is medication, psychotherapy, or attending social groups, 80 percent of the people who follow up with these treatments begin to show improvement with in four to six weeks. About 50 percent of the patients that take medicine to “cure” the depression are unsuccessful with the treatment, because they stop taking their meds due to the side effects, but the people who are in the support

In the beginning of “Sonny’s Blues” Sonny’s brother remembers reading the article in the newspaper of Sonny’s arrest. The fear overwhelmed him as he wondered what was going to happen to Sonny. Would he stay in jail, sent to a rehabilitation center, or just let back on the streets to start drugs again? He also struggled with the feeling of guilt; this could be his fault. Sonny’s brother thinks to himself, “I had my suspicions, but I didn’t name them. I kept putting them away. I told myself that Sonny was wild, but wasn’t crazy” (Baldwin 123). This is an example of the psychological effect that Sonny’s drug abuse has on a loved one; they have the feeling of guilt, and blame them self for not

Heroin addiction can have positive and negative effects on people's relationship. When a family member becomes addicted to drug, it affects the whole family emotionally. The relationships starts to fall apart. In Sonny’s Blues, Baldwin demonstrates how relationships are continuously falling apart and building back again. The narrator hates the lifestyle of Sonny. He is angry, since Sonny hangs around with his drug addict friends. He does not like how Sonny “Carried himself, loose, and dreamlike” (Baldwin 138). The narrator feels as if his friends are having a bad influence on Sonny’s lifestyles. He does not approve the plan Soony have with music in the future. He sees it as “an excuse for the life he led” (138). He is worrying how music will

At the opening of the story, the narrator has just learned that his brother, Sonny, had been arrested for drug use. “He had been picked up the night before in a raid on an apartment downtown for peddling and using heroin” (Baldwin, 123 ). He quickly felt the hopelessness and despair that you feel for anyone who gets into drug usage and the unrelenting disbelief. “I didn’t want to believe that I’d ever see my brother going down, already seen so many others.” (Baldwin, 123). The narrator does not want to believe in Sonny’s downfall, but in his heart of hearts, he knows it to be true. He takes time to reflect on his students and how he watches the same addictions take over their lives. “Maybe it did more for them than algebra could.” (Baldwin, 123.) The narrator also feels like he failed his mother by not looking out for Sonny and not being aware of his downfall into addiction. “You got to hold on to your brother and don’t let him fall, no matter what it looks like is happening to him and no matter how evil you get with him.” (Baldwin, 133). Sonny’s

Talk about Sonny from the story Sonny’s blues, it is mention so many families who are experiencing situations where drugs takes kids out of their families, and then, parents don’t know how to bring them back, or how to recover them. Unfortunately we are living in a blind society, where we rather give money to young people instead for help them to find a path for a better life, it is why the take money as granted, because they are not working for it, they do not really appreciate the real value, and use it buying drugs is really simple. Great young minds locked themselves in an addition from where they cannot escape and many of them have given up to their dreams, and completely waste their talent just because nobody could give them a hand

Thousands of dollars spent in doctors, detoxes, rehab camps, and he was there for his son every single time he fell into the same pit again, and again and again. "When she was singing before – said Sonny, abruptly–, her voice reminded me for a minute of what heroin feels like sometimes – when it's in your veins. It makes you feel sort of warm and cool at the same time” (242). This phrase felt almost like the despair in my dad’s eyes while telling us how my brother used to shake and sweat and get cold and hot and hallucinate because he needed drugs; and how tired he was, but still he never gave up. I remember the day Albert died, he wasn’t on drugs, he wasn’t sick, he wasn’t with some bad guys; he was home, it was totally unexpected.

Baldwin illustrates how drugs can affect the individuals as well as families and friends. The two main characters, Sonny and the narrator, have different personalities and lifetime goals. The narrator’s life time goal is to have a family and a stable job. However, his brother, Sonny, shares a different ambition. Sonny is a musician who wants to be accepted by the society but more importantly by his brother.

In an attempt to better understand depression in today’s youth, I have chosen to explore the depths of Major Depressive Disorder and how it affects the young people in our society. Depression amongst school age children and adolescents are the primary focus. The prevalence, adversities, and treatment of the depression are discussed as well. After exploring these few facets of the disorder, I will talk briefly about the Ecological Model developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner and Morris in 1998 that is used by counselors to help evaluate and assess the children who are referred by teachers or medical

The same internal struggles that Sonny’s brother faced are similar to the internal struggles I faced when it came to my own brother. My family had tried for years to get my father help, to no avail. It was an internal struggle to want to help my brother because of the loss of my dad, and his unwillingness to change. The internal fight stopped when I realized that he is family, and he deserves every chance at getting clean just like we tried with our father.

He most often tried to explain himself through playing music. When that didn’t work out he turned to heroin. The heroin he was shooting gave him a sense of control and expression. Another point Baldwin tried to express in this story was that drug use not only hurts the person using it, it also affects the family of that person. Sonny did make poor decisions but if he had a mentor in his life he wouldn’t have gone down this path. When his brother the narrator found out about Sonny’s drug use it literally made him sick. He was trying wrap his head around this terrible news because he never thought that Sonny would be using drugs. He was sad, angry, and disappointed. When Sonny was released from prison his brother was anxious to see him. In a letter he wrote to Sonny he told him about his kids and his old lady. When Sonny finally arrived at the narrator’s house, he realized that his older nephew remembered him, but the younger one did not although he did like his uncle. In a letter Sonny wrote to his brother he told him that he was sorry for what he had done, and he was glad that both his parents were dead so they wouldn’t be disappointed in him. In addition, he told his brother he knew that he had hurt

The purpose of this case study is to reveal that John R. Cash has depression and has suffered from this disorder for a

Drugs simulate a sense of numbness that allow him to forget the painful memories of the passing of his parents, his time in jail, things he may have seen in the navy,

The client is a 56 year old African American female with a 9th grade education level. During the assessment the client initially presented as anxious; however, as the assessment progressed the client became calm. During a hospitalization stay at MCV in 2010 the client was given the diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder. The client received the diagnosis of Depression after threats of suicide. The client was prescribed Trazadone and Sertraline.

Depression affects close to 19 million Americans, 9.5% of the population in any one given one-year period. At some point in life 10% - 25% women and 5% -12% of men would probably become clinically depressed. Furthermore it affects so many people that it is regularly referred to as the mental illness “common cold”. It is predicted that depression exacts an economic cost of over $30 billion each year, but the value of human torment can’t be measured. Depression not only causes discomfort to those who are depressed, but in a like manner it causes misery for their friends and family who usually don’t know how to help. There are 9 categories of depression, the first type is called major depressive disorder this syndrome decreases a person’s ability to eat, sleep, work, and function as he or she typically would. It stops people from enjoying activities that used to be pleasurable, and it often makes them to think negative about the world and themselves. Major depression is generally debilitating and may occur in several occasions in a person’s lifetime. The second type of depression is called Dysthymic disorder and it is a moderate however more enduring type of major depression, someone with dysthymia may seem to be chronically mildly depressed to the point that it appears to be a factor of their personality is not common for someone to struggle with this condition