Final Synthesis Assignment

Final Synthesis Assignment

What is depression? We all have heard someone exclaim that they are depressed, or that something is depressing, but what does that really mean? Depression is a type of abnormal behavior, or mental illness, that is classified as a Mood Disorder. For this particular Mood Disorder, the person suffers from an “unrelenting lack of pleasure in life”(King, L. (2012). This means that the person may not find happiness in things that would typically make them happy and/or that they may have fatigue or energy loss. There are many other diagnosable symptoms as well, but Depression is not simply ‘depression’ there are actually different types of depressive disorders.

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is more of a compressed

In DD symptoms can be more mild than MDD and there are fewer symptoms, but they last for far longer. In fact, to even be diagnosed you must have had the symptoms for two years unbroken by a normal mood that lasts more than two months. I doubt when someone says that they are depressed they mean that they have been struggling for two years. However, overall, depression is more common than our society cares to think. In the United States alone, out of one hundred people eight and one half women and three and one half men are diagnosed with a version of

This method focuses on thoughts and beliefs and how they may cause a disorder. A person using this approach would attend talk therapy in which the therapist would help them strengthen their positive thoughts about themselves and the world around them. By doing this, the goal is that they would see the world around them in a more positive light and find more enjoyment in life again. The Psychological approach contrasts the Biological in that it believes that the origin for the disorders are not physical, but rather they are caused by how a person