Essays on Seasonal Affective Disorder

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Depression is a kind of mental disorder that can affect people’s feelings and everyday activities. It needs medical and psychological care, otherwise, it can cause such a fatal result as a suicide. Depression has its own symptoms and types that depend on different circumstances. Contemporary medical science has different methods of cure for depression that help people to overcome and even prevent it. Depression has been known from the ancient times and was considered as the demonic possession. Priests were the people responsible for it and they used exorcism as the method of the treatment. With the development ...

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Psychotropic mediation mainly focuses on solving a mental disorder by use of drug prescriptions unlike cognitive behavioral therapy which is more concern with the thinking process of a patient. Cognitive behavioral therapy attempts to assess the situation analysis ability of a patient in a bid to offer a solution to the problem of depression or anxiety. It thus concerns itself with the form of thinking of a patient and not the content of thought. Through this- as proved by research-a patients situation analysis mechanism can be examined and improved. It is argued that anxiety and depression mainly emanate from an individual’s interpretation of a given ...

Depression is a mood disorder more than just feelings and thoughts of unhappiness. It is a medical sickness that entails both the mind and body. The distinction of feelings of unhappiness or being down from clinical depression is the incapability to elude this feeling of sorrow that can stay to at least two weeks. Depression can influence the work, school and social relationships. Daily activities will be difficult to accomplish and worst, the patient can feel that life is not worth living. Patients suffering from depression will experience hopelessness, helplessness, negativity and intense anxiety. These feelings stay and do not go ...

Worldwide mental retardation (MR) is one of the most common conditions affecting 1 to 3% of the general population. Clinically the symptoms differ from one individual to the other as it depends on the severity of the condition (Mental Retardation, 2010; Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation), 2011; Intellectual disability, 2013). However, few common symptoms associated with MR are as follows: - The intellectual developing milestones are not meet as expected. - Common features shown by the individuals with MR includes unable to do the routine activities independently, impetuous, passive, causing injury to self, inconvincible, rude behavior, frustrated and ...