Depression

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Applied Psychology - From Theory to Practice

Mary Levengood

ABS200: Introduction to Applied Behavioral Sciences

Instructor: Sophia James

January 11, 2016

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Applied Psychology - From Theory to Practice

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Applied Psychology - From Theory to Practice

Many individuals have felt down or depressed occasionally. Feeling depressed can be

a common response to afterlife, conflicts, or lack of confidence. However, when emotions of

acute depression, involving weakness, lost, and useless, proceeds for days up to weeks and

detains one from performing normally, their depression can be something more than just

unhappiness. It could possibly be major depression (clinical depression), a mendable medical

condition. Many individuals when questioned what depression is think it is when a person is

remarkably unhappy that they feel empty and think of suicide. What they do not realize is that

it is much more than that and it is a bigger issue than we perceive.

Depression is a sickness that makes an individual appear to be unhappy and/or

helpless for a general period. Depression can have a serious effect on the happiness of an

individual’s life, their job, their well-being, and affect those who care about them. Depression

impacts every person variously. Some may feel sad for a general period while others feelings

of sadness come and go. One astonishing component of depression is that it not only impacts

an individual mentally, but physically as well. The most known indicators for depression

involve feeling down about something specific, becoming exhausted and drowsy constantly,

finding it hard to get out of bed, prolonging critical occasions, and not having joy in what was

to be fun-filled events.

“Depression has affected more than 19 million American adults each year,” (Blazer,

2005). Still, the unreported victims of depression cannot be calculated. Depression can...