Jack Duluoz Case Analysis

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I. INTRODUCTION: Approximately 14.8 million American adults suffer from major depressive disorder. Middle-aged author, Jack Duluoz from San Francisco, California is one of the many who suffers from depression. Duluoz has psychotic depression, which is a subtype of major depression. Psychotic depression occurs when an individual with clinical depression also experiences some sort of psychosis. Psychosis stems from a break from reality, such as experiencing delusions and hallucinations which Duluoz exhibits by believing that the sea speaks to him. In addition, paranoia is another manifestation of the psychotic depression in which Duluoz possesses. Also, another symptom of depression Duluoz exhibits is that he either sleeps for excessive periods of time, or does not sleep at all. Duluoz also has high anxiety which leaves him …show more content…

They also mention that the voices that one hears in their head are viewed different from the individual who hears them thoughts. This is why the voice that Duluoz experiences is at times aggressive. These auditory hallucinations are a symptom of the psychosis part of Jack Duluoz's depression. Claim 2: Jack Duluoz is experiencing paranoia as another symptom of psychotic depression. “But now she's started to sleep, poor girl is exhausted, I realize she's going to abandon me to my fate anyway and I cant help thinking she and Dave and Romana are all secretly awake waiting for me to die” Jack Duluoz is displaying that he has become thinking irrationally by believing that his two friends, Dave and Romana are awaiting for him to live. Duluoz has no valid reason to believe that Dave and Romana actually await his death. “Often psychotically depressed people become paranoid... A teen with mildly paranoid thoughts might feel that everyone at school is watching and judging him, when in fact he’s barely on their radar

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