Nursing Assignment on Depression

Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT ON DEPRESSION
Nursing Assignment on Depression
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In recent years, mental health deterioration is one of the major concern of health care
professional and nursing personnel. In relation to this, issue of issue of mental illness is also
increasing day by day. This mental illness is also directly associated with the problem of physical
health as well(Kemp and Quintana, 2013). Depression is one of the most common mental illness
worldwide in recent years. Severe depression can result in physical health issue in the patients
with depression. The onset of depression or other mental illness is dependent on various
biological, psychological and as well as social factors (Jeste and Palmer, 2013). In this case
study, it is seen that Mary is a 41 years old woman living with her husband and three children.
Mary is a working lady and currently she is in seek leave due to her mental illness that is
depression. Recently she is complaining about her lack of motivation and do not get any
confidence even in her activities of daily life. According to her husband, Mary often thought that
she was worthless and described herself as the burden for her family. Although, she did not think
she had have any problem related to her health. Moreover, she had a history of hospitalization
due to her depression issue. In this essay, the mental health and mental illness , relation of mental
and physical illness, Mary’s recovery issue from depression and implication for the practice of
health care giver are discussed.
Mental health and mental illness is closely associated with each other. The term mental
health refers to the emotional , social and as well as the psychological factors of a person. Mental
health can alter the way of thinking, behavior and as well as can introduce stress to the people.
Stress also acts as one of the major causative factor for altering the mental health (Jorm, 2015).
Altered mental health can cause changes in the health condition of the individual. This changed
health condition is referred to as mental illness (Graham, 2013). Mental illness is closely
associated with disturbed social, family life that is the personal life and also the working life of

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that individual ( Rogers and Pilgrim,2014.). Mental health is involved in effective performance
of activities of daily life like caregiving, work, and maintaining relationship. On the other hand,
the diagnosable health conditions like mood swings, emotional changes are under the mental
illness section. However, mental illness is like other disease of human being and it is totally
treatable. In this case study, it is seen that Mary is a patient of depression and had hospitalized at
the age of 39. She also had have antidepressant medicines named citalopram in past. In this
disease development, biological factor plays a vital role (Lewis et al., 2014). From the case
study, it is seen that Mary’s mother is patient of severe depression and that genetical factor had
inherited to Mary. Recently, Mary thought herself as a burden to her family and also she thought
that she was worthless in nature. This lowered mood and feeling of worthlessness also push the
person towards her depressive condition (Brewin, 2013). However, she had no past medical
history and as well as psychological trauma history. She lived with her husband and children. So
it can be said that there is no other severe psychological factor that can be responsible for
development of depression. However, withdrawal of the antidepressant drug might be a
promotional factor for the onset of depression for second time (Fava et al., 2015).
Often it is seen that, the mental and physical health are discriminated and as well as
neglected. However it is seen that, they are closely related to each other in direct and as well as
in indirect way. In a study, it is seen that, the mental and physical health are strongly
interconnected. Altered mental health can affect the working life of the individual and ultimately
this negative income effect will hamper the physical health and as well as the quality of
life(World Health Organization, 2014). In this case, It is seen that ,due to Mary’s depression she
was not able to maintain her working life. In addition to this, Mary’s husband complained about
Mary’s insomnia and this lack of sleep can also affect Mary’s physical health. Secondly, a bad