The knowledge that I have obtained will help me and my family deal with depression that came about because of the loss of a love one. ... Triggers such as divorce, the death of a friend or family member, or family problems many cause childhood depression. ... Social scientists have proposed many explanations, including changes in family structure, urbanization, and reduce cultural and religious influences. ... Death, is one of the highest contributors to depression and will sometimes pull families apart. ... If a person lives a long life they will experience the death of their grandparents...

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"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! ...

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The fact that Virginia and Leonard do not express their love for each other may also be responsible for Virginia finding the kiss with her sister delicious and forbidden. ... She shares no physical love with Leonard and as a result of this, is craving some act of physical love, even if it is just a kiss from her own sister. ... She tried to justify her inactivity with her family by the fact that she is pregnant. ... One is made aware of this by the fact that she has to "summon resolve" before she goes downstairs to join her family. She forces herself to do things, mainly because she does n...

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Contributing factors include: family problems, throwaways, homeless families, residential instability, foster care and other residential programs, institutional contact, and socioeconomic pressures. ... Many children attempt to deal with their difficult family situations. ... It is obvious to me that love between parent and child is lacking in most families. ... Another cause of juvenile homelessness is that more and more families are losing their houses. ... Whatever the causes may be, the result is an increasing population of homeless families with children. ...

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Some types of depression run in families, suggesting that a biological vulnerability can be inherited. ... In some families, major depression also seems to occur generation after generation. However, it can also occur in people who have no family history of depression. ... (This may be a chicken-and-egg question; it's equally plausible that family or job problems induce the excess alcohol use. ... (7) "Anniversary" suicide is characterized by use of the same method or date as a dead loved one, usually a family member. ...

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Another consideration is whether, by taking your life before the illness runs its course, you are depriving yourself and your family and friends of a valuable period of good life, love and companionship. ... In his book Dying With Dignity, Derek Humphry says: "Helping another to die in carefully considered circumstances is part of good medicine and also demonstrates a caring society that offers euthanasia to hopelessly sick persons as an act of love"(91). ... People that have been independent their entire lives do not want to be a burden to anybody, especially to those that love them and care ...

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They also do not want to burden themselves or their family with these problems and feel that assisted suicide is something that will help their situation. ... This is normally where family members would make the decision for the person, which is often looked at as murder. ... The family just decides that they have nothing left to live for. ... Many individuals don't know how to ask for help, and so they turn to death and hope that their friends and family will support them. ... There is no need to end life now, live it out and enjoy the remainder of your time with your loved ones. ...

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Lying in her hospital bed, in a morphine-induced coma, Esther was well aware of the loving family that surrounded her. ... A major concern is that if physician-assisted suicide is legalized it would be abused by family as a way to dispose of undesirable members, or by depressed patients who may have a curable illness but who simply no longer wish to live. ... Not only does hospice provide the terminally ill patient with the medication necessary to ease pain and suffering during their final days, but it also goes a long way in helping to ease the mental anguish of the patient's family by ...

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Imagine you're standing atop a high bridge, you take a deep breath, say one last silent goodbye to your friends and family, and you leap to your death. ... You may be solving your own personal problem, but imagine the pain, suffering, and anguish that your friends, family, and peers go through. ... Absent parents, too much sexual freedom, widespread use of drugs and alcohol, too many guns, not enough love, and a world that seems hostile has also been blamed for pushing young people to their deaths. ... I have a wonderful family and friends. ... Friends and family members are a...

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People through the ages have asked, why does one commit or attempt suicide, especially someone that has so much to live for. Suicide occurs across all racial and social groups. Sometime during our lives someone who has attempted or committed suicide will touch us all. Just exactly what is suicid...

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The third normal psychological factor that supposedly influenced suicide was "heredity" as a number of families had shown a tendency towards suicide from generation to generation. But Durkheim rejected this theory of heredity saying that suicidal tendency was present only in those families which were affected by insanity. ... Also, he says that if it was hereditary, then it should influence both sexes but from the examples given, it was found that only male members of the family seemed to be committing suicide and not the females. ... Now how this lack of social integration leads to suicide c...

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A person needs to be mentally healthy in order to learn and function properly with their family and society in general. ... Children suffering from depression tend to display overly clingy or needy behavior especially around family and friends. When teens feel that they are no longer surrounded by the people they love, they tend to think and sometimes do the worst. ... For other teens, depression arises from poor family relations that could include decreased family support and perceived rejection by parents (Lasko et al., 1996). ... It is common for young people to be preoccupied with issue...

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They may cry a lot, stay away from friends and family, forgetfulness, anxious and worried all the time, the more serious think of death or suicide. ... Jennifer has suffered two failed marriages, the death of her mother, whom showed her nothing but love and security, an absent father whom she has no feelings towards good or bad. ... Black women have full time jobs receiving minimum wages and small encouragements from their family. ... A stigma, which shows signs of weakness, is something not very well accepted by its community or family. ... They were economically fortunate to visit a psyc...

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.  Recent loss of a loved one through death, divorce, separation, broken relationship; or loss of job, money, status, self-confidence, self-esteem.  Loss of religious faith.  Nightmares.  Suicidal impulses, statements, plans; giving away favorite things; previous suicide attempts or gestures.  Agitation, hyperactivity, restlessness may indicate masked depression. ...

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