Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Major Depressive Disorder
I am Major Depressive Disorder, the "common cold" of psychology. I tend to give people persistent feelings of sadness and take away their interest from the things they love. Not only do I affect how you feel, but I affect how you think and behave as well. I fill people with feelings and thoughts about how life really isn't worth living. If I'm lucky, I might be able to cause emotional and physical problems. I am not a weakness. I am a chronic illness. My only weaknesses are medication, psychological counseling, and treatment. I'm a tough cookie and it takes awhile to really get me down. There are a few different things that attract and cause me to show up. I can't seem to resist stress, discouragement, irritability, frustration, extreme sadness, suicidal thoughts, or slowed thinking.
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Depressed people can be treated with magnetic stimulation, which is a biomedical treatment. Magnetic stimulation penetrates to the brain's surface. The stimulation of the magnetic energy energizes the depressed patients' left frontal lobe, which can become inactive with depression.
ReplyDeleteI think another form a treatment that could be seeked is a Cognitive Therapy, like Beck's & Cognitive-Behavioral Thearpy which is a psychotherapy method. I think doing things like sitting down and talking about reactions to certain events or keeping a diary and discussing how you feel after an event happens could help you relaize your emotions. In the end i think this therapy method could help you face tough situations and overcome bad thoughts.
ReplyDeletePeople who are depressed can be treated with Electroconvulsive Therapy which is a biomedical treatment. This method is proven to be the most accurate way to get rid of severe depression. It can cause slight short term memory loss, and a lot of people think it is barbaric even though there is no evidence of brain damage with it.
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