Depression in Young Adults In today's society, many young people are faced with tough decisions and adult situations. With so much stress on our shoulders, young people may easily become depressed. ... There are major indicators that all people should be aware of to let people know that they might possibly be depressed. ... Nothing the depressed person does can make them happy, for example, eating, going out, seeing friends and engaging in sports. ... Shopping for food, preparing it and even eating is expending energy that they do not have. (7) Changes in motor activity - depresse...

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Listen to relatives and friends describe the lives of the people they lost to suicide. ... Major depression is manifested by a combination of symptoms (see symptom list) that interfere with the ability to work, study, sleep, eat, and enjoy once pleasurable activities. ... Many people with dysthymia also experience major depressive episodes at some time in their lives. ... However, it can also occur in people who have no family history of depression. ... Throughout the world, about 2000 people kill themselves each day. ...

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Cognitive therapy also teaches people how certain thinking patterns are causing their symptoms. ... Early in life, people develop core beliefs about themselves and other people and about how the world operates." ... The difference in the therapeutic approach versus medicating is dramatic, and the relief people feel is immediate. ... At least 10% of the people with major depression end their lives by suicide. ... (Oster & Montgomery, 1995) The key indicators of adolescent depression include a drastic change in eating and sleeping patterns, significant loss of interest in previous activities, ag...

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Many people care, many more people than you know. ... Some people will walk on you if they can - don't let them. ... Loss of interest in work, people, or activities previously enjoyed. 2. A tendency to withdraw from people. 3. ... Most people who attempt suicide really don't want to die. ...

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People also use the term depression to describe the temporary sadness, loneliness, or blues that everyone feels from time to time. ... People with major depression often have feelings of despair, hopelessness, and worthlessness, as well as thoughts of committing suicide (Cohen 1993-1997). ... Clinical depression affects ten-million Americans and it is more common than what people seem to believe. ... Some of the people just want to end their misery and have mixed feelings about killing themselves (Shneidman, 1985). ... People sometimes don't understand that all of us will die at one ...

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Many people feel Winter is a dark and gloomy time of the year. This affects different people in different ways. ... Lewy and co-workers at the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) demonstrate that the high-intensity light effects the natural release of melatonin by the pineal gland in the brain in people. ... People with Seasonal Affective Disorder are usually affected the most during the months of December through February, and the problems begin subside in March or April as the days become longer. ... After receiving the responses from people it was shown tha...

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When Carla, a twenty-six-year-old mother, experienced mild sadness after the birth of her first child, she thought nothing of it because she felt complete relief after several weeks; however after her second pregnancy she experienced a more severe form of unhappiness. Two months passed while Carla ...

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