Yian and Depression Yian is an 18 year old, African American immigrant college student who lives in New York. She resides with her father and her step mother whose family income would place them in the lower middle class. Yian also has a part time night job to help to fund her college tuition and contribute to household bills. Yian personality structure is that of an introvert, with this she finds it a little difficult making friends in college or asking for help when she needs it. Yian tends to blame herself for all the misfortunes around her, and challenges herself to fix these misfortunes, which normally ends disastrous. Yian was raised by her mother until she was 16 years old, when she migrated to live with her father, Yian has a close …show more content…
Due to this Yian grew up as a lonely isolated child. In 2015, Yian discovered family holidays such as Christmas which she used to enjoy was now a holiday which she currently despised, due to the idea of family time with her parents. Yian instead of engaging with family, she would be located in a corner on her phone listening music or reading. Yian constantly feels down with a sense of hopeless and without a purpose, in trying to evade questions and concerns by family members she presents herself as contented and occupied. In 2014 shortly after Yian migrated, she fell into a period of melancholy, she felt trapped in a home of strangers that she called family and constrained to her home as she was unfamiliar with her new environment and made no efforts to become familiarize with it. At this time Yian was residing with her grandparents and cousin, she believed once she moved her dejected emotions would have improved. However, when Yian moved away from her grandparents after two years, to live with her parents, she felt more trapped, isolated, inability to be herself and hopeless once …show more content…
Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest (ManiMala, 2016), which can negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed, which can lead to emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person’s ability to function at work and at home (Parekh, 2015). The symptoms of depression can range from mild to severe and include: feeling sad or having a depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed, changes in appetite trouble sleeping or sleeping too much, loss of energy or increased fatigue, increase in restless activity, feeling worthless or guilty, difficulty thinking, concentrating or making decisions and thoughts of death or suicide (Weis,
A 38-year-old single woman, Gracie, was referred for treatment of depressed mood. She spoke of being stressed out due to conflicts at work, and took a bunch of unknown pills. She reported feeling a little depressed prior to this event following having ovarian surgery and other glandular medical problems. She appeared mildly anxious and agitated. She is frequently tearful, but says she does not have any significant sleep or appetite disturbance. She does, however, endorse occasional suicidal ideation, but no perceptual disturbances and her thoughts are logical and goal-directed.
Previously, the narrator has intimated, “She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves. They had never taken the form of struggles. They belonged to her and were her own.” Her thoughts and emotions engulf her, but she does not “struggle” with them. They “belonged to her and were her own.” She does not have to share them with anyone; conversely, she must share her life and her money with her husband and children and with the many social organizations and functions her role demands.
Growing up, the mother of Yiyun would constantly accuse her of being selfish. On more than one occasion, the mother of Yiyun would take it upon herself to belittle her daughter. Even on special occasions, like on her wedding day, Yiyun stated how her mother said to her that she will likely divorce. Understandably, the words of her mother would torture Yiyun. However, according to Yiyun, she was the favored daughter in spite of her mother’s insults because she was smarter and prettier. Yiyun states that her sister suffered more than she did. As a result of the constant emotional abuse from her mother, Yiyun was left with an emotional burden that she carried with her into
Jennifer Barr is a female, Caucasian, twenty-year-old college student living in Tallahassee, Florida. Currently, she resides on her own in an apartment, although her mother, father, and brother live locally in their home. Jennifer works as a waitress in a restaurant and is actively enrolled in courses at the college; however, due to recent circumstances, her attendance has declined. Jennifer describes herself as typically having the ability to manage her school responsibilities and as having relatively positive relationships with her professors, co-workers and restaurant manager. She maintains an ongoing relationship with her father, mother, and brother. She describes her relationship with her brother as the closest, her relationship with her mother as intermittently close, although hindered by her father, whom Jennifer has not maintained a close relationship with due to what she perceives as pressure and unrealistic expectations that her father consistently has placed upon her.
She would mostly be alone and sit by herself being buried in books or watching cartoons. In high school she attended a program for troubled adolescents and from there she received a wide range of support from helping her get braces to helping her get information to attend community college. (59) Even with this she was already too emotionally unstable due to her family issues and felt like she couldn’t go through with her dreams to travel and even go into the art of culinary. She suffers from psychological problems such as depression and worries constantly about almost every aspect in her life from work to family to her boyfriend and just hopes that her life won’t go downhill. (60) Overall Kayla’s family structure shows how different is it now from it was in the 1950’s as divorce rates have risen and while before Kayla’s type of family structure was rare now it is becoming more common. This story helps illustrate the contributions of stress that children possess growing up in difficult homes in which they can’t put their own futures first they must, in some cases, take care of their guardian’s futures first or others around them. Again, this adds into the inequality that many face when it comes to being able to climb up the ladder and become successful regardless of where one
grandmother and spends her childhood raised in relative seclusion in the big house, “'...She will be
After eight years of “living the life” she came to the realization that she is not longer that young, fresh twenty-year-old. She has outgrown New York. The promises would no longer be kept. Her twenties flew by in a flash, for how long she spent in New York. Perhaps, she has always felt empty in certain aspects in life. She tried different things and travelled to different areas of New York, but it was only a matter of time before nothing satisfied her anymore. Didion eventually became depressed at the age of twenty-eight. She cried at every moment of the day, hoping that marriage was what was missing. There was nothing physically wrong but her body kept trying to tell her that New York is no longer the place for
Her early childhood also involved a lot of moving, from house to house (Ho 40). She lived the classic minority experience (Huntley 2). At school she was usually the only Chinese student in her classes who was an outsider (Huntley 2).... ... middle of paper ...
An important aspect of Dana Sach’s “if you lived here” is the trauma and recovery that characters like Xuan Mai go through. Trauma results from an event that is overwhelming to the person and causes symptoms that are a response to the trauma. Recovery is when the life narrative is pieced back together so that the trauma is, “part of the learning curve of the life narrative.” (Herman) The trauma and recovery of characters like Xuan Mai is important because the stage that the character is undergoing impacts their actions and attitudes toward key events in the novel. This is evident in how Xuan Mai’s attitude toward Shelley’s adoption of Hai Au changes based on what stage of trauma and recovery that she is in.
who wanted to enter her life, she is left alone after her father’s death. Her attitude
Clinical Depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for weeks or longer. Clinical depression results from interactions between brain chemicals and hormones that influence a person's energy level, feelings, sleeping and eating habits, these chemical interactions are linked to many causes such as, a person's family history of illness, biochemical and psychological make-up, prolonged stress, and traumatic life crisis such as death of a loved one, job loss, or divorce (Clinical Depression).
Depression is much more common than most people think. Because it is essentially an invisible illness and is largely in the mind, it is difficult to correctly diagnose it and most people suffer for months, years, or even decades with depression. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines depression as “a mood disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty with thinking and concentration, a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal thoughts or an attempt to commit suicide.” Most medical definitions are able to explain what happens and why it does, but after carefully examining this one, we only notice that it explains what happens, but not why. Usually, the symptoms of an illness are...
She honored her parents as she should, but longed for them to pass. In the beginning of the story she said "I had never expected my parents to take so long to die.” She had taken care of them all of her life she was in her fifty’s and her parents in their ninety’s. She was ready to live and break free of all the rules and duties put upon her, they were like chains binding her and holding her down. She was ready to explore to go on journeys and adventures she was already aging all she wanted was to be free. Her parents’ death let her run free, she left Hong Kong to start over and maybe find love, in any way possible, maybe even through food or luxuries. She wanted to be rebellious of her parents I’m sure she knew they wouldn’t approve but she didn’t care she wanted change. All her life she had followed so many rules, she had to fight to teach, to learn, to be with friends, her fight was finally over. She now had no one to rebel against, she now had the freedom to
Clinical depression is very common. Over nine million Americans are diagnosed with clinical depression at some point in their lives. Many more people suffer from clinical depression because they do not seek treatment. They may feel that depression is a personal weakness, or try to cope with their symptoms alone. On the other hand, some people are comfortable with admitting their symptoms and seeking help. Such a discrepancy may account for the differences in reported cases of depression between men and women, which indicate that more than twice the numbers of women than men are clinically depressed. According to the numbers of reported cases of depression, 25% of women and 10% of men will have one or more episodes of clinical depression during their lifetimes.
Y.M. is currently in the Erikson’s developmental stage of Generativity versus Stagnation. According to Erikson, this developmental stage is primarily focused on working and being a parent. During this stage in life, the challenge for adults in their middle years is to be procreative and productive while overcoming personal stagnation (Potter & Perry, 2013). Y.M. is currently 40 years old, which places her in middle adulthood. While conversing with her it is clear that she is being degenerative. She shows her love and extension for her children as well as for future generations to come. In addition, Y.M. showed her worrisome about work when she was asking question regarding when she would be able to return to work and home because she needed