Depression

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Introduction

Life is beautiful! Everyone in this world wants to live a happy and healthy life. There are certain crippling diseases and disorders that snatch all the liveliness and energy of life away. This in turn, restricts individuals to allow different pleasures of this life. One such condition is of depression. Clinical depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for an extended period of time. Depression is accompanied by a constant feeling of sadness, anxiety, apathy and indifferent attitude towards reality (Simon et al, 2006). The same applies to the symptoms of depression, a sense of unwarranted feelings of guilt, an inability to enjoy life and the things that previously caused you pleasant emotions. The stress in our modern society is becoming increasingly higher. There are a lot of things to get worried about such as unemployment, stress at work, changes in family life or even stress in their free time are certainly factors that can trigger depression. The purpose of this research paper is also to talk about the concept of depression from a particular perspective. The particular perspective that this research aims to talk about is defined in thesis statement as follows.

Thesis Statement

There are people, practitioners and philosophers who believe that depression is not a disease rather an individual suffer from depression as a result of childhood experience. The purpose of this research is to present arguments in against of this statement. The purpose of this research is to prove that childhood experiences are not the only reasons for an individual to suffer from depression instead there can be scores of reason that can cause depression in an individual.

Background

To this day no one knows exactly why depression occurs really. It is believed that many different factors are involved in the pathogenesis of the occurrence of depression in an individual. Depression is one of the most common diseases in United States. It is estimated that 15% of men and 24% of all women throughout their life suffer from depression. 10-15% of sufferers are estimated that they try a suicide attempt when the disease is not treated. The World Health Organization estimates that depression is a serious disease. Disorders in childhood and early life experiences are important cause o depression. Violence in the family, for example, hitting parents can cause children to be depressed, disturbed self-esteem through constant humiliation, isolation from the outside world, few social contacts, rejection by the parents, withdrawal of love etc. A bad childhood may therefore be considered in any case as the cornerstone of a depressive disorder. These disorders can carry through into adulthood and cause too much later depression (Wolf, 2009).

The above discussion shows that childhood can be an important source for an individual to suffer from depression but the fact remains same that suffering in childhood is not the only thing that can cause depression. There can be various other reasons for that. In order to support this statement that ...