Understanding Mental Disorders: A Case Study on Depression

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INTRODUCTION
Currently there is an increase of cases of mental disorders for many individuals even those in the
best professions. Mental illness can be described as a condition of health that entail amending
one’s emotion, the way of thinking or behaving mostly associated with several problems that
arises from our day today life. Some individual with mental illness is capable of performing their
duty in daily lives while others who have an advanced one may experience difficulties in
performing their duty. However mental illness conditions are treatable and this essay will
expound more about Mary’s case of mental illness which is depression, as well as giving details
of how to handle such case to bring the person to a normal life style.
Mental health and mental illness.
There exists a big link between physical health and mental health because the former is
controlled by mental health which acts has the foundation for self-esteem, emotional well-being,
thinking, the way of communicating, how a person performs to community as well as relating to
other individuals. Since mental illness occur in varied form one need to have an adequate
knowledge of how to diagnose and treat them. For instance, Mary suffering from depression is
depicting the sigh in that often she talks of feeling worthless and hopeless. Most frightening is
that she can’t see how she can manage to get through another day. Another symptom Mary show
is lack of motivation to complete simple activities that she was art first used to do quickly
without problems like eating and dressing. These are clearly advanced symptoms of depression
the fact that depression make one either to lose appetite or to gain appetite and eat much than
normal. Depression also makes one to deviate from daily routine and that the reason why we see
Mary is finding it as a burden to dress the way she is used to (Sharma, Meurk, Bell,Ford, and
Gartner, 2018). According to her husband report, Mary have difficulty in sleeping due to the

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same mental depression that leads to sleeplessness. Also, very common with depressed
individual is negative change of mood and the person is always very pessimistic towards his or
her life as we can hear from Mary who is in this condition seems to be in moments of despair and
tearful. The loss of energy is as a result of the lost appetite and her body experiences a condition
of starvation.
DISCOVERED SIGHS AND SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION FOR DIAGNOSIS
Since some mental illness can mimic or relate to another different medical state, it is crucial to
have a deeper knowledge of the very specific signs and symptoms of a specific mental health
state in order to give the correct treatment to the victim involved. For example, depressive
symptoms may relate to a thyroid state. Hence in order to diagnose a mental health state it
requires a complete assessment involving physical examination. The sighs include the following:
• Hopeless. This is the most common indication of depression where one has a mood
disorder that influences how someone feels towards life in common. In addition, there are other
moods like having self-hate, insignificance, and incongruous guilt. Common repetitive views of
depression might be also uttered as the person thinks (Walsh, S., Szymczynska, Taylor, and
Priebe, 2018).
• Increased tiredness and sleep complications. Depression frequently comes with a
deficiency of energy as well as devastating feeling of exhaustion which is one of the most
dominant signs of depression. This feeling can result to extreme sleep while in other instance it
led to insomnia which also brings forth other problem of being anxious
(Widom, Czaja, Kozakowski, and Chauhan, 2018)

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• Overpowering emotions. The person changes emotions rapidly with time like crying and
within no time being anger. This change of emotions is not being triggered by an extrinsic factor.
• Lost curiosity. Depression makes one to loss concern or deviate from activities that
previously one was admiring and eager to be involved in for example games, speeding time with
friends and hobbies which is another deliberating symptom of depression. For the married people
one can lose pleasure in sex and an advance condition of depression can result even to
impotence.
• Risks of committing suicide. Research has proved that a number of people who commit
suicide typically shows the sighs of depression at the start. They usually being talking about the
act and eventually they end up making the act true (Steffens, 2017). People need to be keen and
try to find the solution if there is anyone having this behavior around them.
• Anxiety. Though depression has not revealed to source anxiety, both states often appear
together since there share some of the symptoms.
• Fluctuations in appetite and weight. A depressed person experiences changes in appetite
which can either be an increase or decrease. One who losses appetite becomes unable to feed
well and this result to weight loss and energy deficiency in the body. In addition, increased
appetite of the depressed individual makes one to consume a lot of food which result to weight
gain (Shapiro, Jones, and Escolar, 2017). Too much weight also can lead to one getting diabetes.
• Venerability to irritation. According to the research, it clearly depicts that there is a
varied form in which depression affects genders. More often men tend to be irritable when
depressed and also finds it difficult to discover when they are in a depression state till when it is
in an advanced state.