Clincal Depression
Depression is a very common disease that will affect a large percentage of the population at some point during their life span. At least 10% of all people will suffer from a major depressive disorder, while even a larger percentage will suffer from some type of mild depression. It is a serious disease that has been linked to other physical and mental illnesses. It has also been a cause of death in numerous cases due to suicide and heart disease. The most disturbing fact about depression is that it so often goes untreated although it is a very treatable illness. Knowledge is the key to correcting this problem. The public very much so needs to be educated on the illness itself. Knowing the causes of depression as well as its dangers and symptoms will surely lead a larger percentage of its victims to seek the many widely available treatment options.
There is an enormous amount of information available about depression. It would take an unreasonable amount of time to view all of the information available just on the internet, not to mention libraries and mental health professionals. The most useful website that I encountered was furnished by the National Institute of Mental Health. This site has all of the information that one could need to start researching depression. From its causes, dangers, and symptoms to the different treatment options, this site has plentiful well researched information provided by a nationally recognized institute. It was the main resource for this research paper.
Depression is defined as "a spectrum of affective disorders, ranging from passing sad moods to serious, crippling disease requiring medical treatment". Major depression, also referred to as clinical ...
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...that may put individuals at a higher risk for depression. It is equally important to be aware of the events that may trigger a depressive disorder. Most importantly, after a diagnosis of depression has been made, it is important to seek treatment. It is senseless to suffer when there is so much effective treatment available. Depression is a disease. It requires the attention of a doctor. Knowing this information, we should all give more attention to helping those with the disorder to detect it and seek treatment.
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Depression is considered a mental disorder that can lead an individual to commit suicide, experiment fatal risk that can injure his or her life. Furthermore, an individual feeling depressed lacks motivation to do anything progressive with his or her life. With that said, these individuals sometime gives up interest in activities that were once enjoyable, gets in a phase were he or she loses appetite, begins to overeat, loses concentration on what he or she is trying to complete, and becomes indecisiveness. Moreover, depression is a condition that makes an individual feel miserable, have no motivation to any activity that can influence his or her views, actions, welfare. Furthermore, depressed individuals at times may feel sad, apprehensive, desperate, destitute, useless, awkward, short-tempered, and agitated. In addition, the melancholy of depression is categorized by a greater concentration and length that is attached to severe symptoms. According to Wedding & Corsini (2014) states, “Physical disease, severe and acute stress, and chronic stress area also precipitating factors” (Pp. 240) of an individu...
Major depressive disorder is a mood disorder characterized by the DSM-5 of depressed mood and markedly diminished interest or pleasure in nearly all activities occurring nearly every day, for most of the day, as indicated by a subjective self-report or an observational report from others. Individuals who have depression also tend to experience significant weight loss, insomnia or hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation, fatigue and loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt, diminished ability to concentrate, and recurrent thoughts of death. Most people who suffer from depression usually experience major depressive episodes in unipolar major depression, while some others experience both depressive and manic episodes in bipolar
Goldsmith, Barton. "10 Little Known Facts About Depression." Psychology Today. Psychology Today, 15 July 2009. Web. 10 Jan. 2014.
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