Summary Of Say No To Depression By Norman Brown

Depression is a devastating disorder, though one may find it hard to understand or take seriously. You can’t see it or touch it, but when it settles over you or your loved one, it can affect nearly every aspect of daily life. Depression can disable everything from waking up in the morning to going to work, even sleeping at night. Sufferers experience feelings of intense despair and hopelessness. Activities they used to find joy in no longer interest them and in some cases may lead to attempted suicide. Infact, Depression is the leading cause of medical disability worldwide and accounts for over 210 billion dollars each year in medical expenses and missed days of work. Antidepressants are prescribed at an all-time high and fail to consistently do better than placebo pills (Wittenborn, 551). I myself have experienced this first hand, shelling out money I didn’t have for antidepressants that had little to effect or just made my symptoms worse.

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,

Whether we are becoming a more depressed population or simply changing the standards by which we diagnose is an area of some controversy. What is certain is that the medical system is now processing and treating—with ever-changing cocktails of psychotherapy, support groups, and pharmaceuticals—20% more Americans every year than the year before. Depression—together with its aftermath—is a staggering epidemic sweeping the country, ravaging countless lives in its

Clinical depression is an illness that significantly affects the way someone feels; causing a persistent pessimistic mood. There are two main types of depression; post trauma and clinical deposition. This medical condition is often accompanied by a range of other physical and psychological symptoms that can interfere with a person’s everyday life; affecting 6% of Australian adults every year. Symptoms for depression include sleeping pattern disturbances, loss of motivation and interest, feeling worthless or guilty, anxiety and impaired concentration. There are a few ways that this depressive illness can be caused: reaction to a distressing situation like loss or stress; part of an illness such

“Recent data estimate the overall prevalence of depression at about 11.1% of the American population, or nearly 35 million individuals (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). A predictive models suggest that up to 50% of the population will experience at least one episode of depression during their lives” (Life Extension, 2014). Depression has negatively affected the lives of many individuals throughout the world. Look around you there may even be someone close to you that is demonstrating signs of its stifling affects. Depression does not discriminate with its suffocating

“Depression is an illness that increasingly afflicts people worldwide, interfering with concentration, motivation and many other aspects of human everyday functioning. It is a complex disorder, involving many systems of the body, including the immune system, either as cause or effect. Depression disrupts sleep, and loss of appetite, in some cases it causes weight loss, in other cases it cause weight gain. Because of its complexity, a full understanding of depression has been elusive. Depression involves mood and thoughts as well as

People who are not depressed or have never come to contact with clinical depression, are more often than not inclined to judge someone who is clinically depressed and call them dramatic, self-indulgent, or even worse tell them that they are just “under the weather.” Diagnosed clinical depression is not something that one can just shrug off, in fact it’s a disease that will cause the mental health state of an individual to decrease. Though depression isn’t something one can physically see like the flu, depression causes the patient to feel the effects as if it were a physical disorder. These symptoms include but are not limited to, fatigue, muscle aches headaches, etc. Though sadness can also cause an individual to feel these symptoms, sadness is temporary. Whereas depression, lingers and tends to become part of the patient’s everyday life, like a best friend. Though everyone at some point in their lives will experience sadness, the underlying question of why some people experience sadness that leads into full on depression remains. The article titled “Sadness, Depression, and Avoidance Behavior” by Allan M. Leventhal, primarily discusses an explanation to why some individuals are more prone to depression and subsequently will become clinically depressed, and why others are not. Furthermore, the article offers a clear separation between sadness and depression.

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” is a highly impactful quote spoken by Laurell K. Hamilton. Depression is a serious mental condition that is characterized by extreme feelings of sadness, worthlessness or hopelessness, fatigue, irritability, loss of appetite, inability to concentrate, and insomnial or excessive sleeping. Statistics show that between ten percent and fifteen percent of young people exhibit symptoms of depression. Depression may have physical or emotional causes and may require long-term treatment. Depending on the type of depression and the severity, treatment may include prescription antidepressant drugs or psychotherapy. Controversy surrounds the decision

However, with changes in society it has come to describe those who suffer from pervasive lowering of mood preventing them from living a normal life. Conditions range from person to person. It may vary from mild, brief occasional dips in a person's mood to a severe lifelong persistence in extensive depressive episodes characterizing a person with intense feelings of self-worthlessness. Overall depression is a very common mental health disorder, however it is still highly misunderstood. This disorder is seen to be “one of the greatest, if not the greatest disease burden of the twenty first century”. (Mulholland.1) As this disorder brings distress to millions of households across the nation, it is frequently misdiagnosed or simply not seen as an issue of concern at all. Leading to “a great deal of suffering and a substantial number of deaths”. (Mulholland.1) Alas, the condition sadly evokes a lot of stigma. The lack of personal experience and knowledge residing with most people causes feelings of superiority in those who the condition does not affect. This causes tears in the social fabric and worsens things for those that do have

"Depression 's Upside" a New York Times article written by Jonah Lehrer takes a different approach when looking at depression. He notes that Charles Darwin 's depression allowed Darwin to concentrate on his work and therefore accelerated his research. The article looks at how depression changes the way someone thinks and processes their environment on an evolutionary standpoint. This article focuses on research by psychiatrist Andy Thomson and psychologist Paul Andrews, who took a special interest in evolutionary psychology. They wanted to concentrate on the evolutionary root of depression, thus began the outlook of rumination; the thought processes that surrounds depression. Thomson and Andrews formed the analytical-rumination hypothesis which states, the rumination thoughts forces an individual to over think and become very analytical and hyper-focus on their own flaws causing their depression. Many studies show that the constant negative thoughts lead to depression, however Thomson and Andrews were more concerned with the evolutionary purpose of rumination, if there is one? They explained the purpose as a fever that sends white blood cells into overdrive in order to fight off infections, depression might be the fever that fights off one 's affliction. Rumination often starts because of a psychological blow, leading to a cycle of negativity which can be hard to get out of, if the psychological blow continues to affect an individual, they tend to fixate on the problem and

Nevid informs palpable statistics on depression “according to recent estimates, about 17 percent of U.S. adults develop major depression at some point in their lives (Conway et al., 2006; Forgeard et al., 2011; Nevid, 2015, p. 504). Furthermore, Nevid (2015) delineates on major depression, “major depression (also called major depressive disorder), people typically feel sad or “down in the dumps” and may experience feelings of worthlessness, changes in sleep or appetite, lethargy, and loss of interest in pleasurable activities” (p. 504). This writer, for this assignment chose to share from personal experience. Once this writer was a part of the 17 percent of Americans suffering from depression. However, that the moment in time enhanced my life; it was my truth and hopefully this post will encourage and uplift. Nevid (2015) cites:

People of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life have felt depressed and unhappy at some time in their lives. These periods of sadness usually pass after a short time, but for some people, this feeling can remain for weeks, months, and even years. (1) This prolonged state of unhappiness is called major (or clinical) depression and is characterized by a persistent sad or "empty" mood, loss of interest in favorite activities, difficulty concentrating, and many other symptoms. It is not simply a mental state but an illness that interferes with the way people feel, function, and think.(2)

Eventually in life, any given individual will encounter testing days that brings on a depressing mood. An individual may feel miserable, sad, or even tired. A depress state of mind is something that is normal and a basic event in our day to day lives. For a few people, it turns out to be more than a basic discouraged mind-set, it turns into a state of being a disorder. It is assessed that million of Americans will develop some type of mood disorder issue eventually in their life. Mood disorder is not something new mood disorder are something that has been around a very long time.

There are a number of different types of depression, all of which interfere with people’s day-to-day lives. Two of the more severe types are major depression and persistent depressive disorder (Johnson & Indvik, 2009). These types of depression are generally characterized by feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, low mood, negative attitudes about the self, joylessness, and increased sadness, with the former lasting a few days, weeks or months while the latter persists for two years or more (Johnson & Indvik, 2009).

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