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    The Cultural Effects on Greif and Mourning of Human Cultural effluence on grieving process has an interesting similarities and differences between western and eastern societies. The feeling of sadness naturally associates with several human reactions and behaviors, like crying, screaming, and feeling sad most the time. For example, in eastern culture when somebody dies, most of the family members and their friends have to wear black colored clothes. In addition, the close family member of the dead

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    Grief can cause an individual to experience a list of negative effects, it can completely devastate a person both physically and emotionally. Some individuals might seem like they are healthily handling grief physically, but emotionally that person might be crippled to the point of no return. Several factors can have an effect on the severity of the grief a person is experiencing, these could be how close they are to the person who died, how the person died, and how the people around them grieve

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    Depression Depression is usually defined as a mental illness in which an individual experienced deep, unshakable sadness and low interests in all activities. Depression is used to define temporary sadness, loneliness, or down times that everyone usually feels every now and then. Depression is one of the most common types of mental illness. No race, ethnicity or sex can eschew depression as the illness may affect anyone; however, Robert Byck says that women are two to three times more likely to suffer

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    The opposite of depression is note happiness, but vitality. And that was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. And one of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it’s ridiculous. You know it’s ridiculous while you’re experiencing it. You know that most people manage to go through their daily routines and it’s not a big deal and yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure

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    Depression affects a lot of people. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 9% of American suffer from depression (Iliades). One type in particular, known as Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD seem to roll around when the weather becomes colder, days seem shorter, and nights seem longer. According to Familydoctor.org, “Seasonal Affective Disorder affects between 4% - 6% of American while 10% to 20% experience a milder form of winter-onset SAD”. “Three out of four SAD sufferers

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    Grief and loss are one of the most universal human experiences, though painful, and understandably causes distress. However, approximately 15 % experience a more problematic grieving process with elevated symptoms of depression and/or posttraumatic stress symptoms (Bonanno and Kaltman, 1999).There is no well-established model of the timeline for resolution of grief and the variance of its expression is wide. Many persons cope with the emotional pain of bereavement without any formal intervention

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    Depression Research Paper

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    people tend to fall into is depression. Depression is where someone has a low mood in which the emotion they are currently in will likely affect their thoughts and behavior. When someone is in that state, they are getting isolated. This means they are at the part where they are losing focus, as well as becoming stressed out. However, if life becomes worse, there is a high risk they are going to take away their own life. This does not happen to everyone who is in depression, but there are some that will

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    come” (1) this is more than likely Lizabeth talking about how she is waiting for Ms. Lottie’s forgiveness for her destructive actions as a child. For example, when Lizabeth is an adult, she begins to remember her time as a child during the great depression and primarily her days spent terrorizing Ms. Lottie. When Lizabeth “was suddenly more women than child” (1) she began thinking of Ms. Lottie’s yard years ago and the time that she had destroyed her [Ms. Lottie’s.] marigolds. This shows that more

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    loss that is distinctly different from depression, or having a major depressive episode, although it may outwardly appear to be similar to it in many cases. Grief and mourning are both said to accompany grief with the former being defined as an internal feeling or an emotional and physical process, while the latter is defined as ritualistic acts that one engages in during bereavement in order to socially display their grief. Although bereavement is not depression, the newest edition of the DSM recognizes

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    illness. It can come in different forms, such as Seasonal Affective Disorder, Psychotic Depression, Postpartum Depression, and many others. Although it is not known exactly what causes depression, there are multiple factors that can affect the diagnosis. Brain chemistry and biological makeup are the major factors in major depressive disorder. Imbalanced chemicals and hormones can one of the main contributors to depression, or even the

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