Mental Disorders: Depressed Adolescents

Depression is a 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. Depression can be long-lasting or recurrent, substantially impairing an individual’s ability to function at work or school or cope with daily

The patient is a thirteen year old female diagnosed with depression/ depression NOS. She is in the hospital for attempting to kill herself by stabbing her stomach with a knife. She had been there for almost a week when the assessment was conducted. Hand off states she sees things in the shadows (visual hallucinations), and she was molested by her thirty year old cousin and sodomised by her neighbor when she was four. Her home situation is not a therapeutic one, her and one of her mother’s fights constantly, and see feels her mother is two faced and she cannot talk to this mother about her feelings. The patient is very shy, and just wants to draw ninja turtles, but through therapeutic communication and observation she began to open up. She is dressed appropriate for the weather, and has a good understanding of advance vocabulary, but does go off on her own to look outside a lot. The full assessment can be found in the appendix at the end of the paper. The aim of this study is to describe priority nursing diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions, tests, labs and medications for this patient, the patient’s diagnosis according to the DSM-V and then examine a nursing article that relates to this patient.

Depression is mental illnesses characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, despair and worthlessness that interfere with daily functioning and personal relationships. It is an illness caused by an imbalance of the chemicals in the brain. It affects about 19 million people and cost billions in any given year (Ford-Martin). Some of the symptoms of depression are having a hard time focusing, constant crying, and loss of interest or pleasure in ordinary everyday activities, sleep problems, problems with eating and weight (gain or loss). Depression strikes all age groups, and often goes unrecognized or inadequately treated.

Depression is a disease that many people suffer from everyday of their lives, there are cures and treatments that can get people help, but it is still and everyday struggle. “Depression is a psychoneurotic disorder characterized by a lingering sadness, inactivity, and activity, and difficulty in thinking and concentration.” (Lerner 1). Depression can be defined as a brain disorder, that people are diagnosed with.

Roughly twenty million people in the United States suffer from depression. Depression is defined as a mental illness which leads to feeling sad, having trouble thinking and concentrating, feelings of worthlessness or guilt, decreased energy, and having a decreased amount of interest in most activities. Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses to be diagnosed in the United States. The mental illness can affect anyone regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic standing.

Depression is defined as a mood disorder that interferes with how a person is able to perform day-to-day activities. “Depression is characterized by a depressed or sad mood, diminished interest in activities which used to be pleasurable, weight gain or loss, psychomotor agitation or retardation, fatigue, inappropriate guilt, difficulties concentrating, as well as recurrent thoughts of death.”(CDC, Depression) Depression, also known as a “Major Depressive Disorder”, usually affects individuals between the ages of

Depression is a medical illness that affects how an individual feel, how he thinks and how he acts. Depression causes problems such as loss of interest in things you once felt joy in doing and negative feelings like sadness, lost, or the will to do anything. It can affect the person’s ability to do things at home or at work, physically

Depression is a medical condition associated with depressed mood or reduced interest in everyday activities and additional symptoms such as changes in weight and difficulty concentrating.This health issue effects more

Depression is a mood disorder in which someone feels so sad that they cannot function normally. (Field,9) Depression takes a major toll on not only one person, but for their friends and families lives too. Depression makes people think about themselves in the worst way possible. They feel worthless, hopeless, and guilty, and sometimes it is for no reason. (Field,11) They feel like they cannot talk to anyone about what is wrong because they fear they may judge them. Three hundred and fifty million people worldwide suffer from depression (WHO). Twenty million of which are in the United States (Dosomething). Women are twice as likely than men to become depressed (WHO). People can become depressed at any time or age (Dosomething). Eight percent

Today review evidence-based treatment fashion in Children and adolescents. We will also review new Suicide Prevention guidelines

Recent studies have shown that there is a high prevalence of mental disorders in children within the juvenile system due to the nature of how each facility assists and treat the youth. According to Candice L. Odgers research article, much of the juvenile system within different regions offer a specific option of assessments and treatment because of policies and whatever equipment, clinical staff, and funding is available. The article also discusses current issues with incorrectly diagnosing patients, gender differences, and prejudices, which is contributed in collecting invalid data/statistics. The researchers of this article conducted numerous interviews and surveys within juvenile detention centers, and found that “there is growing evidence

Depression, also called clinical depression, is a common and treatable illness that causes sadness and other emotional issues that can lead to physical conditions such as the lack of sleep or make it harder to concentrate on a certain task. It can also lead to the loss of interest in things that the person with depression previously liked. It can affect your entire way of living by affecting the way you think, behave, and can lead to many physical as well as emotional problems.

The prevalence of MDD is higher in women than in men. It has a ratio of 2:1. This case study is based on my life and how I myself have dealt with depression. I was 12 years old when I started to show the first signs of depression. I believe there were several causes for my development of depression. I was just beginning middle school with all these new people that I knew nothing about, at the time some of my family that I had grown up with my entire life were moving, friends that I had a relationship with just last year I no longer talked to, and my strained relationship with my father took a turn for the worse. That year I found out that my aunt and her two children that I spent the majority of my time with that I considered two of my best friends were not only moving, but they were moving to another state altogether. After that I started to slowly distance myself from others. At this time my dad lived with my mom and I. This was stressful because my parents don’t get along at all. Time progressed and the atmosphere in my house became more and more intense to the point where they were arguing all the time. This would always make me upset and I would cry because I didn’t want to see or hear my parents fight. Then my dad took it too far and not only hit me, but he hit my mother. I was hurt and angry and didn’t know what to do. My mom kicked him out the house and I didn’t speak to him or see him for a couple of months. With all the stress at home it started to not only affect

People used to believe that children had no reason to be depressed it wasn’t till a few years ago: “No one thought that children could suffer from real depression; there wasn’t even an official diagnosis for childhood depression until 1980” (Fassler 4). But really who would have thought that such a thing could be possible. Sadly today we know that it’s a real disease and it affects more adolescents than we think: “ The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that as many as 2.5 percent of all American youngsters under the age of eighteen or over 1.5 million children and adolescents are seriously depressed” (Fassler 2).

Day after day, more teenagers in the United States are being claimed by death due to depression and suicide. Depression rates are higher than ever; teenagers are spending more time worrying about their schoolwork than they are being productive in their studies. With college looming over all young minds, teenagers often turn to alternate options for release rather than dealing with the problem at hand. The demands of school work lead teenagers to become depressed and this disables them from obtaining their highest levels of success. The United States is falling behind other countries in the education field. Currently, the insufficient levels of depression among teenagers inhibits their growth in learning and leads the United States to be weak in education. For instance, 55% of students in China are considered to be top world performers, while only 9% of American students are top world performers (Ryan 2). This notable issue is one of the major reasons why the United States is incapable of keeping up with other top nations, yet again, leading to more depression in the younger generations who are competing with citizens of foreign countries for jobs and opportunities in the world.