I 've exerted every possible action to try and talk to you. You want nothing to do with me and that 's something I 've come to terms with. You kept me optimistic at the lowest point in my life. The loss of an old friend triggered one of the longest and hardest bipolar episodes I 've had to endure. It 's a very personal and uneasy topic but I 'm doing this as a way of having some sort of closure.
You were the first person I told I was going to start therapy and you never judged me. No one knew besides my family, I didn 't want pity or want to be seen as vulnerable and weak. You never treated me any different, if anything I felt a stronger bond and trust of you.
Depression itself is a battle. I felt sad at all times and I didn 't know why
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Up to that point I had never experienced anything even remotely close to this turbulence that was going on inside my head. My moods would change in a matter of hours, which lead to the crazy out of control messages I 'd send in anger and instantly regret. It 's hard to explain and understand how your mind works when you’re going through a bipolar episode. The intensified uncontrollable feelings while your mind is exhausted with endless thoughts. The constant anxiety and heightened emotions. My only relief was with prescription pills which made me feel brain dead or trying to sleep for hours on end, so I wouldn’t have to deal with my …show more content…
I was jealous when you would go out without me. Demanding answers to things that had nothing to do with me. I didn 't want to share you. Bursts of anger whenever I 'd see snapchats of you hanging out with others. I was mostly jealous of your happiness something that I had been longing to have but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t be. That was completely unfair to you. You shared your happiness with me and somehow knew what to say. You gave me hope that things were going to get better. I was scared to lose you because I didn 't know if I had the courage to go on by myself. You are one of the most intelligent people I know. Before my mind went into disarray I felt we shared similar ideologies. I needed this constant communication with you to make me feel like the decisions I was making were valid and reasonable. My insecurities made me paranoid. The night I took care of tails and you fell asleep, I was crying because I was scared of all the ideas that crossed my mind. This horrible thought of, what am I going to do without Kevin? In a metaphorical way you had become my life support.
The last time I remember being with you was at some bar and it was at the peak of my meltdown. I don 't remember what we talked about, all I remember was you sitting in front of me. You gave me so much comfort by being there because I didn 't have to pretend that things were fine. As you distanced yourself it was
Depression was once believed to affect mainly adults for various reasons. It was hardly ever seen in minors or college students. Today depression is more common in younger populations mainly college students. There are many things that can trigger depression in college students, such as the environment, anxiety, and the fear of failure. All these things can contribute to depression in college students and sometimes cannot be seen. Many college students will never seek help, and many wont ever admit that they struggle with it.
A culture’s view of depression differs from one another. For example, cross-cultural psychiatrists have found that depression can be expressed in somatic and emotional terms, ‘“In “somaticizing cultures, “depressive experiences may be expressed as complaints of weakness, tiredness, ‘imbalance’ (Chinese and Asian cultures), ‘nerves’ and headaches (in Latino and Mediterranean cultures)…”’ Due to the diversity of experiences within the different cultures, there is no universal entity incorporating all views of culture in defining depression. The views of a culture toward mental disorders have a great impact on the prevalence of certain individuals within a culture compared to another culture. For example, Japan has a significantly lower prevalence depression rate compared to the United States, “the World Health Survey Initiative estimated a twelve-month prevalence of mood disorders to be around 3.1% in Japan compared with 9.6% in the United States.” The concept of “depression” is the factor to account for in this difference of vulnerability.
Do you ever feel down and out? Fill yourself loosing interest in thing you used to love? Then you might have depression. Depression is a period of time in which you feel sad. I know you are saying to yourself you are just a little down, but depression is a serious medical condition in which a person feels very sad, hopeless, and unimportant and often unable to live in a normal way. There are multiple types of depression, that effects your mental state in various ways.
Major Depressive Disorder, according to Coon, is a mood disorder in which the person has suffered one or more intense episodes of depression. Major Depressive Disorder falls under mood disorders subtopic depressive disorders (Coon 2013). “Psychologist have come to realize that mood disorders (major disturbances in emotion) are among the most serious of all psychological conditions. In any given year, roughly 9.5 percent of the U.S. population suffers from a mood disorder (National Institute of Mental Health, 2011a)” (Coon 2013). I was one of the 9.5 percent. I have decided to write on this topic because I want to understand what causes it. I have been depressed before without medication or counseling and I wanted to know why do you get depressed and how does it impact you. This essay will talk about disorder information, disorder triggers, research on depression, treatment for depression, and theorist’s experiments for Major Depression Disorder.
Waking up in the morning seems to be a task that daunts us all at some point in our lives. Fighting the grogginess that continues to descend upon someone’s waking mind. What if instead of eventually going away, that feeling stayed was there every single waking minute? People who have depression often feel this way, except instead of fighting grogginess they are fighting themselves. According to Merriam Webster antidepressants are defined as “used or tending to relieve or prevent depression” (“Definition of Antidepressants” 2018). Antidepressants are one of the most common remedies for depression. If they work effectively or not is another question. Some argue that people should be allowed to take antidepressants because they boost concentration,
What makes a good person good? According to WikiHow, "We should learn to define our own morals ourselves. One of the simplest ways to do so is to love others, and treat them as you would like to be treated. Try to think of others before yourself. Even doing small things daily will greatly enrich and improve your life, and the lives of others around you." This quote shows us what we need to do in order to be what society thinks as, “good". In order to be a good person, you have to do good and moral things in your society consistently. However people might think that by doing one good thing once in a while will automatically make you a “good person”, but in reality it doesn’t.
The passion for the game and the aspiration to compete has brought athletes to the intensity of intercollegiate sports. The industry of college athletics started as a chance to have a hobby outside of school. Playing a sport was always for recreational reasons back in the late eighteen hundreds until the mid nineteen hundreds when athletics more serious. The level of competition and the urge to be better than everyone created a game that grabbed attention from society. In order to keep control on how intercollegiate sports progressed in the early nineteen hundreds, the National Collegiate Athletic Association was created. Now that athletes and how the sports are being played has changed drastically, problems within the laws and regulations of the NCAA have risen. College sports has become more than a hobby, contracts are involved, there are millions of viewers, and billions of dollars being made off the athletes. The complexity of the NCAA and the issue of why college athletes should be paid or not paid, gives many people the purpose to research and find a solution for both the hard working, exploited athletes, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. NCAA Division I Athletes should receive another type of compensation other than an athletic scholarship by allowing endorsement payments, should receive valuable medical coverage, and be expected to either graduate or excel during the academic year by allowing more time to concentrate on academics .
With each passing moment, my heart seems to yearn for our reunion with even greater ardor, despite my prior belief that my love for you had already reached the zenith of human emotion. Over the course of our long and painful separation, I have experienced and endured more than I ever thought I would within the vicinity of my time on this earth, and have been forced to drastically revise my interpretations of both pure bliss and anguish.
Mental disorders are rapidly becoming more common with each new generation born in the world. Currently, nearly one in two people suffer from some form of depression, anxiety, or other mental health problem at some point in their lives (Editor). With so many people suffering from their mental illnesses, steps have been taken in order to get help needed for these people but progress has been slow. In the medical world, hospitals are treating those with physical problems with more care than those with mental problems. Prescription drugs can only do so much helping the mentally ill go through their daily lives and more should be done to help those who need more than medicine to cope with their illness. Mental health should be considered just as important as physical health because of how advanced physical healing is, how the public reacts to those with mental illness, and due to the consequences that could happen if the illness is not correctly helped.
When I was in the hospital after my first suicide attempt, I remember profusely apologizing to my father from my hospital bed. He said to me, “It's not your fault. We wouldn't be mad at you if you had diabetes and needed insulin. We're going to help you.” He was referring to my brand new diagnosis of acute depression and generalized anxiety disorder along with my new medication to keep it under control. This is a positive effect of the recently developed societal attitude towards mental illness. Because of it, I was given choices about how to pursue treatment along with general kindness from everyone involved. This is different from how it might have been handled in the past, which is anger and shoving me out the hospital doors with strict
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teens. (Hogarty 1) Suicide is a painful conversation to have because when you lose someone to suicide, it affects more than just that person. In Hamlet, both Hamlet and Ophelia are battling depression and discuss suicide in great lengths. If people talk about suicide, it could be avoidable.
My stomach weakens with a thought that something is wrong, what would be the answer I could have never been ready for. I call my best friend late one night, for some reason she is the only person’s voice I wanted to hear, the only person who I wanted to tell me that everything will be okay. She answer’s the phone and tells me she loves me, as I hear the tears leak through, I ask her what is wrong. The flood gates open with only the horrid words “I can’t do this anymore”. My heart races as I tell her that I am on my way, what I was about to see will never leave my thoughts.
It is deeply alarming that ignoring mental health is systematically ignored as an important part of health promotion. This is shocking because, in theory, mental health is recognized as an important component of health, the close link between physical and mental health is recognized, and it is generally known that physical and mental health share many of the same social, environmental and economic components. We know that facilities dedicated to those with mental health problems are more vulnerable to the resources of physical diseases in many parts of the world, and it is essential that mental health promotion should not be equally affected
Depression is a serious problem in today’s time world with everyone going through problems of their own, so one should wonder what depression really is. Depression is defined as feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps. Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad. But these feelings are usually short-lived and pass within a couple of days. When you have depression, it interferes with daily life and causes pain for both you and those who care about you. Depression is a common but serious illness. There are even different types of depression such as persistent depressive disorder, psychotic depression, postpartum, seasonal affective disorder, and etc.
The silent killer that takes lives without warning, punishment, or any sympathy; depression is truly one of the most prominent mental illnesses in the world. Depression is defined as a mental illness inducing a severe and staunch feeling of sadness. The term depressed is coined in English as a temporary sadness that everyone experiences in their life. Despite that depression is more active in women, it is still one of the most common mental illnesses in the world. It affects anybody, regardless of sex, race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic standing. Regardless of all these facts, surprisingly little is known about depression, however, scientists have been able to hypothesize major causes, effects, and treatments for the disability affecting over