Personal Narrative: My Experience With Major Depression

Specifically because I do not think medication is solely the answer for treating psychiatric conditions. I think that from what I have seen working at my site, is that yes medication works wonders with alleviating symptoms but I have also seen horror stories of their side effects. However, the main mechanism of change for clients was finding a balance between medication and psychotherapy. Many of my clients came in apprehensive about medication, and I informed them to give it a try and provided education on the medication they will be taking. What I found from them was that they were pleasantly surprised from the improvement the felt with the medication, but also having skills to help them cope in difficult situations was the icing on their cake. From these experiences is why I believe that society should take a more collaborative approach to treating psychiatric

Jennifer Garam started taking antidepressants in hope that they would work on her depression. In 2010 Jennifer went to the psychiatric for the first time because she was sick and tired of constantly getting knocked down by depression and anxiety, on top of that she had “a few small OCD tendencies” that turned into an everyday ritual. The psychiatric recommended for her to be on a medication. That night she swallowed the pill. She woke up in the morning, she felt 10 times better, she couldn’t believe it. Day 2 it got worse, she couldn’t sleep, she didn’t have an appetite. Day 3 she wasn’t her normal self. Day 4 she felt like she was trapped in a bubble, she was spaced-out and numb. Day 5 she called the psychiatric, she told her she wanted to be taken off of the medication. Off the medication she felt better then when she was taking it, as the medication left her body she felt better then ever. Research has confirmed that antidepressant drugs are no more effective than sugar pills. In some studies sugar pills may have better results than antidepressants. The best known psychological side effect of SSRIs is “amotivational syndrome”, that syndrome is a condition in where your inspiration diminishes to do anything. When Yale University's Department of Psychiatry analyzed the admissions to their hospital’s psychiatric unit, they found out that 8.1% of their patients were “found to have been admitted owing the antidepressant mania or

Still till this day he hasn't got arrested or the detectives have not gave me updates . RIght now am doing very good i still go to therapy if didn't i think i would be a big mess.it has helped me alot i have become a better person it made see things different. I do sometimes have my bad days and weeks but i go thru them . it's hard for me to come to school every year since i told my parents . if we have a 3 day weekend it hard for me to come back to school and get used to the people .

Every time I get in one of these low-grade depressive cycles where I'm excessively pensive and melancholic rather than catatonic and wishing for death, I quickly develop this one-off obsession with the sea that I can't explain. I'm either lusting to swim it, or having nightmares of drowning in it every other night.

I had such a great day at clinical yesterday. I was finally able to see a vaginal delivery and that entire process. When I arrived in the morning, the mom had just received Cytotec, to help induce labor and ripen her cervix. She was forty-one weeks and zero. Around ten thirty in the morning, she asked for her epidural to manage her pain. We bolused her with fifteen hundred milliliters of lactated ringers to prevent hypotension. Shane was the certified registered nurse anesthesiologist (CRNA) who administered the epidural. It was very cool watching him administer all the needed pain relief medication before he administered the epidural to make sure that it would be placed in the epidural space in the spine. Then administered a small test dose, waited till a few blood pressures were taken, then administered the remaining about through an epidural pump. After the epidural was administered, I was able to administer her foley catheter. I was so happy that I was finally able to place one. I learned a few tricks from Maura (my nurse) as well. She taught me that it was easier to take the top off of the lubricant syringe and to place the tip of the foley inside of the syringe, that way it will not wiggle around and become unsterile. She also taught me to grab from the bottom of the labia and pull up, that way it ensures that I will have a clear entrance to

When it comes to my mental health, I can honestly say so far in my personal life, I have never experienced with any mental health issues. I think that I am very unaware what people go through when they have a mental health issue and I would really like to know more about the different mental health problems. People whom I am close with that have experience with mental health. My sister suffers from anxiety, but not severely. I have a few cousins whom I am close to that have experienced with mental health problems. One of my cousins suffers from the mental illness, anorexia. My sisters and I were very close to her when we were younger, but when her mental illness took over her life, she became a different person.

Psychotropic medication may help mask symptoms, but it also has side effects. Evidence that has been presented above shows how recreational therapy has the ability to take away unneeded psychotropic medications. There are still skeptics who would say that medicine is the most precise way to relieve psychological symptoms in patients. It is a good argument that often sways doctors to choose medication over natural healing. Medication has a downside that they forget about, such as side effects and dependency. Side effects are silent killers, as they can take away coherency and cause medical problems. According to a survey done by Whitney Allen, a health researcher, found that over 80% of antidepressant medicine takers stopped taking the pills

She talked about how it was hard at first to change her daily habits and to stay away from certain things such as alcohol. As she was talking about transitioning and making these important changes, I began noticing that I felt very similarly during the medication simulation. Dealing with not only personal barriers like abstaining from alcohol or overcoming change but stigma from society were some things that we were able to discuss openly. I then asked her about her life now and how taking this medication for so long has impacted her day-to-day life. She said that although it was difficult to transition, that she feels much better now that she has more control. I asked if taking the medication has ever made her feel anything negative. She said that while the medication makes her feel more in control, she wishes that she was not dependent on them and hopes to one day be in control without the use of

The depression is overwhelming. I cry uncontrollably. At its worst, I cannot move. Gravity seems to have added weight tenfold. I wake up in my bed, struggling to get out. I am unable to. Breathing hurts. I try to cry out for help, but I cannot move my mouth to form the words in my disgusted mind. I am trapped in my own head. I am trapped in my own body, a body that is entirely numb.

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.

I am a strong believer in the idea that you should avoid taking unecessary medication. Lots of people I know have said that me saying that is hypocritical because I take antidepressants, but I disagree. While it is not completely necessary for me to take antidepressants to overcome my depression and anxiety, they make a big impact on my life. Antidepressants have allowed me to be a functional human being and because of this, I have been able to redevelop daily

Today was the second day of my 6-week placement at Ward 3A-Logan Hospital, I have originally been paired with a demand casual pool RN, however, the said RN is not confident enough to handle me as her student nurse at the time. After the scrum at 7am, and the handover on the 4-bed bay + sides, I politely ask her if I could take one patient as it was one of the instructions of my CF during the orientation on day 1, but I was answered with “I’m not really familiar with the area and I’m from the demand casual pool...” Having sighted my CF at the corridors, I excused myself from the RN and discussed the matter to my CF, and she allowed me to be buddied with a very good EN, informing me that “she is an EN” before letting me to the bay and introducing me to my new buddy EN.

Often, in society, mental illnesses are seen almost as a taboo subject. This often hinders people from seeking the help they truly need. The fear of negative reactions was one of the main things that inhibited me from asking for help. When things finally reached the breaking point, I realized that other people could only assist me in my recovery. Ultimately, I had to want to get better. I knew it would not happen right away. I knew it would be difficult and I knew I would have times where I felt like nothing was changing. Ultimately, I knew I could not continue living the way I was. I knew I had to

For the past couples of days Karen have been crying. One day, one of the staff member brought Karen to my office stating that she does not know why Karen have been crying. The way her body movement and her facial expression was I knew something was wrong. At first she did not want to say anything when I ask her a question, so in my best interest I had to let her sit and wait for her to speak on what was troubling her. So, it took a while then I ask her how she was feeling and she respond by saying she does not know. The problem I have notice in Karen was she was dealing with depression because she stated that she have not been eating and her mother had passed away. By Karen being sad and crying about the things that may be triggering of her