Personal Narrative: Circumstational Depression

Depression isn’t something that someone can “get over’ by thinking positive. It’s not self-pity, easily cured with a dose of “there are other people worse off than me”. It’s not laziness and lack of motivation that can be fixed by “just getting on with it”. It’s not the blues and can’t be snapped out of by ‘taking a walk’.

First of all it is important to understand what really constitutes depression. All of us feel down from time to time perhaps based on having a "bad day". However when feelings of sadness last for several weeks, months, or years, and are accompanied by other symptoms such as change of appetite, isolation from family and friends, sleeplessness, etc. these are symptoms of depression.

Now to explain what depression is. Depression as explain by https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression/index.shtml are as follows. Depression (major depressive disorder or clinical depression) is a common but serious mood disorder. It causes severe symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working. To be diagnosed with depression, the symptoms must be present for at least two weeks. As a person that deals with this issue from time to time I can say its most definitely a very terrible condition to have. As it over you making you feel like not wanting to do anything anymore or

Hope(less) My eyes thrust open as I reel from the sinister nightmares that plague my sleep. The melange of pills I pocket were prescribed to cause their cessation, but the terrors persist. I was foolish to think that they could ever end.

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Depression Realism - Self delusionI made a lot of important decisions in my life when the situations were most demanding. There was little time to indulge in research. I had to make assumptions and submit entirely to Almighty and make the decision. And surprisingly, those decisions have had a life changing effect, for the better. Dealing with a break up and taking exams at the same time, going through times when nobody seems to understand or give me any moral support. Decisions that I made during these times were made under so much depression and the state of mind I can 't imagine at the moment or going

They always say that depression is something that’s all in your head. It’s something made up, something fabricated by your own selfish internal world. You don’t realize when it hits you or how it hits you. One day you just realize you no longer know how to feel; you’ve become numb. Growing up I was happy. I lived a happy life. I had a bed of my own and a roof over my head. I was surrounded by friends and family who loved me. I was content for as long as I can remember.

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.

Having been a psychiatric therapist for fifteen years, I was stumped. Why were my clients finding it so difficult to beat depression? Was I teaching my clients the wrong things? I thought about what I was teaching them: how to talk back to negative and often really nasty self-thoughts; the importance of human connection; the essential need to seek out meaning and purpose in life; the need to toss aside, no hurl away, self-sabotaging behaviors; the vital role medication often plays. No, the problem wasn 't with these things. These things were solid. I decided to ask other therapists if their clients were finding it particularly difficult to beat depression. "Seriously?" they said. "You 're really asking that?" Why was depression so hard to beat? After giving the problem much thought, I had several epiphanies, which very well may have been tied to the electrical storm lighting up the blackened sky in my part of the country. These led me to write a book, "If I Could Just Snap Out of It, Don 't You Think I Would? A Nine-Month Plan for Smashing Depression" and create a website on smashing depression. There were obstacles standing in the way of people beating their depression. And these obstacles have to do with the way people think about things. And unless the obstacles were overcome, depressed people couldn 't go on to the next step. I call the fist obstacle The Brain as the Holy Grail. Ever since sixth grade science, I and all the other humans I know have been aware

Information: Depression is much more than a momentary case of the blues. It is an ongoing problem that can considerably impair a person’s conduct, judgments, daily activities,

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

Approximately 121 million people around the world suffer from all types of depression. Depression is one of the many types of villains that we all have to face in life and have to live with. Having depression is something hard to describe. Basically, mornings are a struggle to get up, smiling is not an option, laughing seems impossible, positive thinking is forbidden, relationships are lost hopes, freedom is gone, love is dead. It is like drowning in the ocean, going only deeper and deeper. You can see the light shining on the surface of the waters, but you are being pulled down deeper into an abyss, drowning. That is what depression feels like.

This is a normal reaction to difficult situations like loss or everyday life struggles. When these feelings last for very long periods of time or become overwhelming they may keep you from living a normal life; if this happens this is when you need to seek help. If you do not seek help and depression is left untreated it may worse and last for years. Some signs of depression are difficulty concentrating, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness or hopelessness, loss of interest of activities once pleasurable and overeating or loss of appetite (Grohol, 2014). These symptoms can cause suffering and may lead to suicide. Not getting treated can be life threatening. Going through this you may feel disconnected from the world and feel like no one understands what you are going through or how you are feeling. It is a good idea to have supportive people around you and to get help if you think you may be depressed. Someone who is depressed needs people who are supportive and understanding.

The exact cause of depression is not known, but there are several factors that play

Depression has numerous causes and effects which affect not only the person but the people around them. Depression doesn’t have a specific cause; in most cases it’s different for everyone. It is a common, treatable mental illness that can be experienced at any time in life. It is often described with feeling sad, unhappy, miserable, or “down in the dumps”. Most people have these feelings on occasion. There are several types of depression. These different types of depression describe slight, but often important, diagnostic differences. True clinical depression interferes with mood disorder in everyday life for weeks, months, or even years. Most people think depression affects only one