Overcoming Depression : A Short Story

Millions of Americans suffer from clinical depression each year. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) (2017), 322 million people are affected by depression around the world. Concerning industrialized Western world countries, it remains as the number one psychological disorder affecting its population (WHO, 2017). Most clinicians begin primarily with prescribing either pharmacologic or psychotherapy interventions. With billions of dollars spent in revue on treating depression (Chisholm, Sweeny, and Sheehan, 2016), exercise used as treatment in reaction to mental illness is often overlooked by mainstream health care professionals. However, it has been proved by recent research exercise acts as both a preventive and reactive

many obstacles along the way and still managed to overcome them. A difficult challenge I have faced throughout high school would be the time I decided to

On October 29, 1929 an invention that so many people’s lives and saving crashed. The stock market. William Foshay never expected it to take effect when he created such a reality, but with this crash, it ruined lives. People were homeless. Foodless. Moneyless. Jobless. With such troubled times, it certainly did bring out the best and the worst in people. There aren't as many people to tell their stories anymore. But we can tell them from remembrance of them. Here’s a story of people who did obtain the best and the worst lives, and everyone in betwixt.

    Just like many other people have, I’ve had to overcome many challenging things in my life. The most challenging

The Depression HelpBook Let’s list all the unknown words. gloomy and irritable down in the dumps sorrow, dejection, despair, or irritability persist, or worsen, and begin to interfere depressive episode traumatic event antidepressant medication Psychotherapy bear in mind Dysthymia exuberant phases euphoria impulsive Left untreated vulnerable Let’s make a random story by using all of these words. Feeling gloomy and irritable, he is down in the dumps. Bear in mind that he has to take antidepressant medication or receive psychotherapy, otherwise his Dysthymia will become severe.

1. No matter how hard we try to prepare ourselves for challenging experiences and try to stay positive, it becomes harder to do than planned when the time comes. It was the end of the last semester and I was on the verge of emotional depression that totally overwhelmed me. During the exam period, I wasted my weekends on the Internet, chatting and Facebook-ing. I needed to submit an important paper on Tuesday morning. On Sunday night, after wasting so much time of mine and having a little red eyes because of so much exposure to electronic screens, I sat down to write my paper. Only then did I realize that the paper was due the next morning, not on Tuesday. I was extremely nervous because it was too little a time to finish it. Moreover, I was so angry with myself that I wanted to cry. It was a realization that I was off course in my study habits and that I had not overcome my habit of willingly putting myself in difficult positions. The more I thought about being in that mess, the angrier I got with myself. I got even angrier thinking about how it was not the first time in my life that I put myself in such a situation. I could not concentrate on my paper because of that emotional response. Then suddenly I thought that I just needed to talk to someone and calm down. I called my classmate and just told her about everything. She said that the instructor had actually extended the deadline until Thursday. It was such a relief. I thanked her profusely and decided

The hardest thing I have ever done would have to be finishing 4th Grade Aleks. It was quite a challenge, but I did it! Yay!

My entire life I have always struggled with depression. I did not produce any outward signs of it to the world around me until I reached third grade when I told my mother, “I do not want to be alive anymore” to which was not handled well.(instead of getting me the help I needed she grounded me and I was treated as if I did something to get myself in trouble). I wasn’t given any actual help until the end of eighth grade and the beginning of ninth. I started to see a counselor and started to take medication; it all helped for quite some time but toward the end of ninth grade something terrible happened.

The Dreadful Journey of Depression Some journeys are long, but even the longest journey has an end. The journey of depression is one of these journeys. Depression is a common but serious mood disorder that causes severe symptoms that affect one’s feelings, thinking and daily activities. This journey does not require a certain age for it can occur to children, teenagers or adults.

This paper introduces a 35-year-old female who is exhibiting signs of sadness, lack of interest in daily activities and suicidal tendencies. She has no interest in hobbies, which have been very important to her in the past. Her lack of ambition and her suicidal tendencies are causing great concern for her family members. She is also exhibiting signs of hypersomnia, which will put her in dangerous situations if left untreated. The family has great concern about her leaving the hospital at this time, fearing that she may be a danger to herself. A treatment plan and ethical considerations will be discussed.

Depression is a serious issue that countless people struggle with; therefore the majority of physicians and doctors try to develop drugs, or new counselling techniques to help defeat this terrible foe, but perhaps neither of these solutions are the answer to defeating depression once and for all. Pam Houston suggests another solution in her short story “A Blizzard under Blue Sky”. Houston’s story begins with the narrator being diagnosed with clinical depression, yet she refuses to take medication offered by the doctor to help her overcome depression. Rather than taking medication, she decided to go winter camping, because she says she loves the natural world because “it gives you what's good for you even if you don’t know it at the time”

feelings can linger for years. Depression is a social disorder characterized by a depressed mood

I was always awkward sexually, I don’t mean awkward in the sense of performing coitus but rather everything else. During sex I rather enjoy myself as any young man would, but before the act and after It where the awkwardness kicks In, Is where I find myself loathing the world and the person I am about to, or have recently just fucked. Usually young men enjoy the chase and thrill of courting. My best friend prefers this to sex itself, he believes that “It is a canvas in which only the best artists are capable of painting on”. In some ways Intend to agree with him and then reality kicks in and I remember that people are disgusting creatures, before, during (especially during) and after sex.

The term depression is widely misused in today’s society. All human beings experience periods in life where they are sad for a relatively short period of time, which is considered normal. Those who experience sadness for extended periods may be suffering from depression. Two terms used to reference the classifications of depression, are Major Depressive Disorder, and Dysthymia. Individual diagnosis of these classifications is dependent on the length of time, and severity of symptoms experienced by the individual. The causes for these depressive states can be due to genetics or the insufficient production of neurotransmitters, which provide the brain with the data necessary to regulate one's psychological well being. Two examples

It all happened one morning. It was a weird morning, one that I had never experienced like before. My regular mornings consisted of pure happiness and joy as I woke up to the bright warm feeling of the sun on my face and the beautiful sound of birds chirping as they tried to feed from the feeder outside my window. Unlike those mornings this morning was different. This morning felt cold. The sun didn 't come out and if it did, I didn’t notice it, but what I did notice was the sleepless dead stare expression drawn on my face. The TV turned on and as the lady spoke I couldn’t hear anything. She kept rambling about the news of the day and mention a topic which interested me, she talked about teenage depression. I don’t quite remember everything she said, but I do remember these words “you are not alone! There’s help!!” Little did I know those words would help guide me to what I was about to face. I was about to become a victim. A victim of teenage depression.