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Children And Adolescents Percent Of People
1,421 wordsEveryone gets the blues now and then. In fact, it's perfectly normal to feel sad and discouraged at times. It's also quite appropriate to feel grief after a loss. However, when a low mood doesn't go away, the person may be suffering from clinical depression. In other words, depression that is serious enough to require treatment. It is one of the most painful, but also most common and treatable, of all mental illnesses. According to the American Psychiatric Association, one in four women and one ...
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Living To Die Or Dieing Live
1,936 wordsLiving to die, or is it dying to live. Suicide, the intentional act of killing oneself. "Britain abolished punishment for attempted suicide in 1961, and by the early 1990 's only two US states still listed suicide as a crime (Columbia Encyclopedia) ." The Japanese have long held to practice called Hara-Kiri, another form of suicide. Most religions look down on this practice because it goes against their core values. As we examine the reasoning behind suicide, can we make a decision of whether it...
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Alice Adventures In Wonderland Coming Of Age
1,820 wordsIn Victorian England, society expected children to make the transition into adulthood as soon as possible. This expectation caused acute mental and emotional stress upon many of the children of this age, as Lewis Carroll shows in the character of Alice in his book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Coming-of-age in the twenty-first century, however, is a longer, more painful journey than it was during the time in which Lewis Carroll lived. Teenagers must now deal with the emotional aspects of ad...
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Manic Depressive Bipolar Disorder
1,423 wordsIs bipolar disorder the cause of great madness or great genius? The symptoms of this mental illness may also be considered as the driving forces behind some of the most gifted and talented people to grace our society. Although individuals with this illness may have some obstacles to overcome, it can be accomplished. With all of the treatment programs that are widely available, people have many options and methods to turn to for help. Bipolar disorder, also referred to as manic depression, is a m...
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Attempt Suicide Clinical Depression
1,495 wordsTeenage years are depressing because they are going through some of the biggest changes in their life. Teens start high school and have to deal with being little in a school again. They go through major hormonal changes. Their bodies develop and grow. They have to decide whether or not they are going to college or not. If they choose college, then what college will meet their needs the best? Will they even be accepted to the college they want to go to? These are major decisions and changes they ...
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Therapy For Depressed Children
1,557 wordsPsychological Treatment for Depressed Students Amy A. Zieman Monmouth University Psychological Treatment for Depressed Students Depression in school-age children may be one of the most overlooked and under treated psychological disorders of childhood, presenting a serious mental health problem. Depression in children has become an important issue in research due to its many emotional forms, and its relationship to self-destructive behaviors. Depressive disorders are of particular importance to s...
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Analysis Treatment Of Bulimia And Anorexia Part 1
1,789 wordsANALYSIS & TREATMENT OF BULIMIA AND ANOREXIA NERVOSA Various societies and cultures view the problem of obesity differently. Many centuries ago most countries in which massive famines and diseases were not a rare thing, being obese indicated being healthy, prosperous and having high status. Most businessmen, rich people, affluent and respectable members of society were proud of the fact that they had high content of fat in their bodies simply because food was a scarce resource in those days and ...
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Clinical Depression M D
344 wordsTransformation of Personality Peter D. Kramer, M. D. Psychology Today July / August 1993 8 Pages Peter D. Kramer, M. D. tells of his first experience with Prozac involving a woman named Tess. Tess was the eldest of 10 children, born to a passive mother and an alcoholic father. Tess was physically and sexually abused as a child. When Tess was 12 her father dies and her mother entered a clinical depression from which she never recovered. Tess was then left to take over the family. Later in life Te...
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Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Selective Serotonin Reuptake
2,657 wordsDepression (psychology), mental illness in which a person experiences deep, unshakable sadness and diminished interest in nearly all activities. People also use the term depression to describe the temporary sadness, loneliness, or blues that everyone feels from time to time. In contrast to normal sadness, severe depression, also called major depression, can dramatically impair a person s ability to function in social situations and at work. People with major depression often have feelings of des...
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Form Of Depression Personality Traits
975 wordsOne of the scariest emotional experiences a person can ever suffer during their lifetime is to experience a form of depression. Over one in five Americans can expect to get some form of depression in their lifetime. Over one in twenty Americans have a depressive disorder every year. Depression is one of the most common and most serious mental health problems facing people today. However, depression is often not taken seriously because of the large use of antidepressant drugs and the large number...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder Symptoms Of Depression
1,152 wordsDepression affects 340 million people in the world today. (Depression-Net) It is also one of the most commonly misunderstood and untreated diseases. Depression affects the person as a whole. It can cause weight problems, sleep problems, self-injury, and very often death. There are many different types of depression-mild depression, major depression, bipolar depression, atypical depression, and seasonal affective disorder. There is a lot of misunderstanding around what depression really is. In a ...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder Risk Taking Behavior
3,198 wordsDepression is a disease affecting the entire mind and body, causing a person to feel miserable in many ways. Changes in brain chemistry make it happen. It is a brain disease. When speaking of depression Im not referring to the normal down periods that everyone goes through once in a while, that can be brought on by a rainy day, a broken heart, the flu or even for no particular reason. People mope around, listen to sad music and feel sorry for themselves. These moods go away within a couple of da...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Eating Disorders Eating Disorders
609 wordsEating Eating Disorders Eating Disorders Eating disorders are a growing problem in teenagers of today. According to an Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) study, eighty-six percent of eating disorder victims report their problem before the age of twenty. The two main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that usually strikes women. There are about seven million women who have anorexia, and many of th...
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Prozac Tess Clinical Depression Life
330 wordsPeter D. Kramer, M. D. tells of his first experience with Prozac involving a woman named Tess. Tess was the eldest of 10 children, born to a passive mother and an alcoholic father. Tess was physically and sexually abused as a child. When Tess was 12 her father dies and her mother entered a clinical depression from which she never recovered. Tess was then left to take over the family. Later in life Tess made a business career out of her skills at driving, inspiring, and nurturing others. She was ...
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Mental Health Association American Journal Of Psychiatry
2,440 wordsAt first it Prozac Abstract At first it was the cure all people were looking for. Then it became the drug they were afraid to take. Somewhere between these two extremes lies the truth about the drug Fluoxetine, better known as Prozac, the most widely prescribed drug on the globe. It is mainly prescribed to patients suffering from clinical depression. It was first brought to the market in 1988 by the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly co. Even though it was originally prescribed for depression, it ha...
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Mental Illness Personality Disorders
1,817 words|Yeah, Im Prozac-Mania Prozac-Mania |Yeah, Im on Prozac, X I hear quite often, said as if the speaker had just received a new Porsche. I often do catch myself responding with, |Im on Zoloft isnt modern medicine great? X In a way, this exchange is a way of bonding. In another, more twisted way, it is a way of receiving a stamp of approval from my peers, for antidepressants have become extremely widespread and widely accepted. |Prozac has entered pop culture becoming the stuff of cartoons and stan...
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Doctor Assisted Suicide Form Of Suicide
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Adolescent Suicide Attempt Suicide
2,280 wordsSuicide is a significant cause of death in many western countries. Attempts at suicide, and suicidal thoughts or feelings are usually a sign indicating that a person is not coping, often as a result of some event or series of events that they personally find prostrating traumatic or distressing. Most people who attempt suicide are confused about whether or not they want to die. They usually are desperate to find a way to remove or stop emotional pain. A suicide attempt is often a cry for help th...
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End Their Lives Drugs And Alcohol
2,075 wordsSuicide: The Final Solution? Suicide, the act of intentionally killing oneself, has become an increasingly more common and serious issue among those who tend to experience problems psychologically dealing with hardships in life. ? Too often, as the daily news tells us, the search for answers to these challenges is complicated by problems outside teens? control, such as divorce, family alcoholism, domestic violence or even sexual abuse? (APA Online 1). For all of these reasons, suicide has become...
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