Personal Experience With Clinical Depression

“ Life is full of emotional ups and downs. But when the “down” times are long lasting or interfere with your ability to function, you may be suffering”(NIMH). Its normal for humans to feel sad after a break up, a disappointment or a tragic lost, but when your sadness prolong for a long period of time and the feeling increases and intensifies to the point that a person can’t function properly at their capacity, the sadness can turn to a severe problem. Depression, its considered a serious illness that affects everyone regarding their age, sex, economic status and ethnic/ racial background. Statistics have shown that one in ten adults suffers depression annually and that women are twice likely to be affected by this mental illness (NIHM). Although, the majority of people that suffer depression don’t get treated for this condition, people that get treated improve their condition and feel better about themselves since depression can be curable with proper treatment.

Let’s first define what psychology and applied psychology means and how it is applied. Psychology is the

The following essay is a case study of a client named John who is suffering from major depression and was sent to see me for treatment by his concerned wife. I will provide brief background information about John then further discuss interventions and strategies I believe can be applied in each session with my client in order to make John's life more manageable. In the essay, I will be writing as the therapist, and the sessions are based on a ten week period.

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

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric disorder which affects about 151 million people worldwide1

Having unrecognized and undiagnosed depression can be detrimental to the patient suffering such mental disorders. I agree with Professor Ian Hickie’s idea that if diagnosing and treating depression improve the mental health of the patients and lower the suicide rates, it is not being overdiagnosed. In fact, depression should be more recognised and diagnosed. Lowering the threshold will not result or lead to any benefits but only increase suicide rates and prevent patients from recovering from other comorbidities. The risks followed by overtreatment and unnecessary use of antidepressants can be solved by educating general clinical physicians on treating patients with depression so that patients who are diagnosed with lesser serious and critical

I received a phone call shortly into my sophomore year of college that my grandfather had a heart attack. I am very close to my grandparents because they helped raise me. My grandparents live four hours away and I was constantly driving to the hospital to see them. My grandfather had to have open heart triple bypass surgery, and I failed my classes for the entire second year. I took the quarter off going into my third year and started back winter quarter. Again, I had no success the next three quarters because I was dealing with depression. Later that year I received the treatment needed to manage depression. In August 2013 I started a medical assisting program and graduated with an Associate’s Degree in Business, with honors, while working

I sat down and started thinking, "could I have really seen that?". I could've imagined it from my depression, but that looked all too real. Even the passenger's were staring at him. Could that really have been... my grandfather?

Depression is a disorder ranging in severity and affecting an individual’s emotions and behaviors as well as impairing everyday functioning (Woo & Wynne, 2011). The disorder is is often noted twice as often in women as men (Sassarini, 2016). With this in mind, G.F’s presentation of symptoms including, sadness, depression, crying, insomnia, increased appetite with the inability to concentrate and fatigue categorize her depression as major depression. The diagnosis of major depression includes, the presentation of 5 out of 9 symptoms which G.F. has and requires at least one symptom include feeling depressed or a loss of interest or lack of enjoying anything (Trangle et al., 2016). Other signs of major depression consist of G.F.’s unkemptness

After diagnosis of CAD or post-surgery, a large number of patients report to suffer from clinical depression; a condition in which a patient may feel persistent sadness, stress, loss of interest in life, mood swings, and anxiety. According to Jiang W, Davidson JRT (2005), “Up to 15 percent of patients with cardiovascular disease and up to 20 percent of patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery experience major depression” (p. 871-881). With depression and coronary artery disease, patients tend to develop other complications, such as heart failure, myocardial infarctions, and increase in blood pressure, which simply worsens the condition. Depression arises as some patients feel a sense of helplessness as well as if life has treated them

There were a few things I found in this article that helped me understand the material in the book better. First, the fact that this article was a personal narrative helped me understand the material tremendously. It is one thing to simply read definitions and examples, but it is another to read someone’s actual experience. Second, the author’s description of his physical symptoms as well as what he was experiencing emotionally truly helped me distinguish depression from just being sad.

Depression Stressful events can be the reason why an individual suffers from depression. Depression can also cause an individual to experience stress. The case study of “Major Depressive Disorder” by Thomas Oltmanns et. al. talks about this woman named Janet, which suffers from depression due to level of stress she experiences in her life.

The group age which was chosen for the survey was between 15 to 74 in seven cycles and last about 2 years per cycles. According to Smith and Bielecky (2012), study was based on the first variable by the Composite International Diagnostic Interview-Short Form for Major Depression (CIDI-SFMD), a structured diagnostic interview tool designed to assess major depression in population-based surveys. This study was started in 1994 and ended in 2005 by the Canadian NPHS. The portray that was presented in this article

The results of this study reveal that one third of Japanese RA patients might have depression as assessed by PHQ-9 while only 5% are officially diagnosed. Additionally, younger, less educated, more functionally impaired patients, and patients who are being treated with csDMARDs alone are more likely to have depression. These findings are important as a means to increase awareness of rheumatologist to not only focus on physical treatment but also take into account a patient’s psychological condition.

This assignment was very interesting. I have never had to do something so emotional in my life. On my list, were some of the most important things, people, and places in my life. Therefore, it was very hard to cross these things off of my list.