“Living and Recovery through Depression” Depression is an important health concern worldwide. It is a silent disorder that afflicts many of the population. It is the most common psychiatric disorder yet unrecognized and under treated because attention is often focused on the physical medical conditions that are obvious during medical consultation. In the Philippines, statistics on mental health remain scarce since not all Filipinos manage to get diagnosed, and not everyone is willing to talk. But with the stigma, can you blame them for keeping it? A recovery story is a messy thing. It has dozens of beginnings and no final ending. Most of the conflict and drama is interior, and there’s a lot more indecisiveness than action. The lead character hides in the shadows much of the time, so you can’t even see what’s going on. I …show more content…
I became numb and insane for the feeling of worthlessness, as if a witched casted a spell of bad luck in my life. I was complaining to myself and to God about the series of unfortunate events of my life. Gradually, depression became so disruptive that I masked my depression with alcohol for a long time. Depression pushed into every corner of my existence, and both school, friends and family life became more and more difficult. The medications only seemed to deaden my feelings and make me feel detached from everyone and protected to every pressure. It was like having pain signals turned off. There was no longer any sign coming from my body or brain that something might be wrong. I felt “fine” but relationships and self-struggle still went to hell. The strange thing was that after all those years of living with it, I didn’t know very much about depression. I thought it was entirely a problem of depressed mood and loss of the energy and
As Americans it becomes natural to undermine those with a mental illness. As a fact, many adults and children deal with mental illness each and everyday. There are many stories that have been told to Americans about depression, anxiety, along with bipolar disorders, with the outcome usually being a negative consequence. For the 1 in every 5 citizens that deal with a mental illness each year. Americans have neglected the fact that many adults and children deal with mental issue(s), the citizens that refrain from getting help; their well being can suffer detrimental effects, there is not a lot of awareness either taught in school, or in public perspectives, American’s stigma has perfected their
"Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all."
To many a stigma is a disgraceful flaw, that of a negative presence. In mental health this stigma is overwhelming. Approximately 57.7 million Americans experience a mental health disorder in any given year. (National Alliance on Mental Illness) People in dire need of help are not seeking it. Mental illnesses are going undiagnosed. The mental health stigma is having a negative impact on the proper diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses.
I noticed the pills affecting me but not in the way I had wished for. I felt as if I was blank and emotionless.The pills made me feel dull and the actually made my depression worse. My personality had vanished and I could no longer be myself. I have had multiple people come up to me and tell me that I am a drag and that I bring down everyone in the room. They do not realize how much that hurts someone who is battling themselves every moment they are awake. I have tried the medication, the therapy, and staying positive but they have never been enough for my darkening
The bottom line is, antidepressants work. I was clinically diagnosed with depression four years ago. I went my leading two years without taking any medication. In effect, those two
Although, depression may be the only condition suffered from at the time, it frequently happens to be a side effect of another disease, such as cancer,
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,
A recovery story has many different beginnings, but has no final endings. Depression comes from in your head, it makes you feel worthless, sad, and unwanted. My uncle used to always tell me,
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 World Health Organization (2015) indicates that, depression is the leading cause of disability globally, affecting approximately 350 million people, as well as a major contributor to the overall global burden of illnesses. Worst, depression can lead to people committing suicide. There are treatments available for depression. However, only fewer than 10% of those affected receive it. Several reasons that obstruct effective care include limitation of resources, lack of trained health care professionals, societal stigma associated with mental disorders, and ineffective patient assessment that results to misdiagnoses (WHO, 2015).
The first important implication this paper emphasizes is that there is a strong need for mental diseases to be looked at on par with other diseases associated with poverty. There is no doubt today that mental disorders form a significant public health burden (WHO report, 2001). One category of mental illness – unipolar depressive disorders – is placed third among leading causes of burden of disease in terms of Disability Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs) globally (Global Burden of Disease, WHO, 2004). This is more than that for ischemic heart diseases or even HIV/AIDS. Yet, there is a big discrepancy between the magnitude of mental illness burden (especially in low- and middle-income countries) and the resources devoted to addressing it (Tomlinson, 2009). At the root of this issue is the stigma associated with mental illness. Public stigma and internalized stigma (negative attitudes held by stigmatized individuals about themselves) associated with having a mental illness negatively affect a person’s attitude and intentions toward seeking mental health services (Conner, 2010). Stigma also affects the way policy makers and donors perceive the need to allocate funds and resources to a cause. If common mental disorders are viewed
Mental health—and the stigma that comes along with it—is a very important issue, one of global importance. Shah and Beinecke explain that 450 to 500 million people suffer from mental illnesses (15). Just considering the amount of people who suffer from mental illness is enough to prove that this is a global issue. Despite the large amounts of people who are affected by mental illness, only one third of countries have some sort of program to help (15). This shows the lack of concern for those who suffer from mental illness. Stereotypes affect many people, and those with mental illness are no exception. Everyone has their own preconceived perspectives and notions of mental health, and many of them are uninformed and unjustified. It is up to us to start changing our viewpoints on mental health.
I have had depression on a couple of occasions, one was during a short period of time in sixth grade.
Many Australian studies have found that depression has a negative stigma in the media and general public. It was found that a small majority of the public saw depression as a sign of weakness, those who were depressed were unpredictable and
Depression for me was one of those sneaky things that I didn’t realize was a problem until it became a huge problem. I honestly did not realize that I had, what is essentially a debilitating illness, until I was so completely and totally enfeebled by it that I could barely ask for help.