Taking a Look at Hopelessness

Has depression ruined your life and taken away the enthusiasm and zest you once oozed? Have you forgotten what it is like to feel true happiness?

Misery in youngsters is an exceedingly genuine medicinal issue that prompts durable sentiments of distress alongside the lost enthusiasm for once delighted in exercises. Teenager dejection influences the way a youngster considers, feels, carries on, and can prompt passionate, useful, and physical issues. There is a wealth of high points and low points engaged with being an understudy. Weight from peers, desires of high scholarly accomplishment, or hormones related with pubescence will normally bring out emotional episodes. Disregarding that, adolescents who have clinical gloom will feel the wretchedness as more than a transitory state. Young wretchedness can prompt extreme results and needs deep-rooted treatment. It is trusted that melancholy is caused by various hereditary, physical, ecological variables interplaying with various hazard factors. Misery tends to keep running in families. Youngsters who have a nearby relative who has sorrow will probably build up this issue. Be that as it may, there are a few young people who create gloom without a family history. Furthermore, teenager melancholy might be connected to a sentiment learning defenselessness; that these youngsters are unfit to discover answers for the difficulties in life. This conduct might be learned through displaying by a parent or guardian. Most circumstances, Horrendous accidents amid adolescence, for example, physical or psychological mistreatment, or loss of a parent, may cause changes in the mind that

in world centered on happiness in which there is no despair. However, this is not the case when it

Despair comes from losing that independence to illness or economics, and losing friends to infirmity and death.

Hopelessness can be experienced by any individual facing a chronic illness. This hopelessness may be experienced at different times throughout the illness and may be felt differently from one individual to another. Without hope, it is difficult for any individual to cope effectively with their illness and as a result, can decrease quality of life. It is essential that patients strive to discover what gives them hope and what may eliminate it. Health care providers can intervene and help patients make these findings by actively listening to their patient and ensuring that their thoughts, fears, questions and doubts are each addressed. Health care providers must ensure that their patients needs are met, mentally, emotionally and physically, to

hopelessness, that life has no meaning. People in existential vacuum lack the awareness of a

Throughout this semester, this class has been really hard on me as an individual. It has challenged me emotionally and has made me really think about my life. There have been times in class I just sit there and think is this really what I pictured my life to be like. I have many dreams to study abroad, move away after graduation, go somewhere warm with friends after graduation, or a dream job, but I always have things hold me back from perusing those dreams. Either financially or other things in my life. Throughout this semester, I have found myself having moments connecting with the therapist as he was talking to Stan. Which kind of scared me because I would think is there something wrong with me? Or why am I not doing that? Learning about the different theories, and techniques helped me better my life as an individual. Intro to counseling has taught me a lot. With being able to relate or connect to the different theories has helped me understand I do have a meaning in life. Throughout the rest of this paper, I will discuss in more detail about

Existential depression is a type of depression whereas an individual feels as if one’s life is worthlessness and

Some techniques or approaches develop in existential therapy is to overcome the four ultimate concern of healthy conditions and emotions. The human condition is “inevitability of death, isolation, meaningless, freedom and responsibility” (Seligman &

The assessment I chose to examine is the Beck Hopelessness Scale, or the BHS. This scale was developed by Beck, A.T., and Steer, R.A in 1988. The test is currently published by Pearson Education, and has been since 1993.

A negative life event alone is not always enough to cause depression, so a variable that determines who does or doesn’t becomes depressed when experiencing such a stressor is also required. This is known as a diatheses, and can be described as “a vulnerability factor that influences how much damage a stressful experience creates” (Brown, 2009, p231). Some of these vulnerability factors are related to the way people think and feel about themselves, such as self-esteem. The persons depressive reaction when the stressor and diathesis combine will typically result in feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness. Hopelessness stems from the idea that there is nothing they or anyone else can do do avoid a negative outcome, or to achieve a positive outcome. Worthlessness involves one or all of the feelings of being flawed, weak, depraved, or wholly inadequate. These reactions may either be short term and resolve quickly (i.e. days or weeks), or develop into a longer term episode.

Everyday aches, pains, disappointments, stresses, and existential sufferings are being reframed as mental illnesses with such exuberance that it is getting hard for anyone to get through life without a psychiatric diagnosis

The redevelopment of the theory of learned helplessness helped create the hopelessness model of depression (Miserandino, 2012, p. 282). The hopelessness model of depression is the concept that someone believes they truly lack control of their personal situation. This lack of control creates a form of helplessness in the face of a negative event in the present. In concurrence with this belief, the additional belief of having helplessness continue in the future can cause a person to feel sadness, lose optimism and to stop trying (Miserandino, 2012, p. 282). These beliefs can lead to the feelings of hopelessness and, more specifically, hopelessness depression.

It will be different from the person next to you, I am almost certain. Happiness, to me, is family and friends all with smiles on their faces because I know then I can smile. Happiness to my mom, seeing her kids get along. Happiness to my baby brother, being picked up and carried around. Take your definition, and try to change it a little. Will it still make you as happy? Will that smile show? Now define desperateness. According the the Merriam-Webster dictionary: feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with. There are those who will argue, no situation is impossible to deal with. In a blatant, insensitive, and cruel way, they’re

feelings can linger for years. Depression is a social disorder characterized by a depressed mood