How Depression Affects Identity

Depression is when a person feels sad or depressed to the point that it affects his work for a long period of time (2). This can affect a person’s identity because he may see himself as a person who is constantly down and has no motivation to do anything. Living with this psychological disorder can also strain relationships because the people living around the person with depression may not understand what he is going through at the moment. Depression can also affect a person in education because the person may feel a loss of motivation to try in school and the consequences of that is failing.
How a person can see themselves as is an important thing. Identity is developed through experiences and cognitive processes. If a person is constantly depressed, he may have low self-esteem (1). One way a person can deal with depression is treating it with psychotherapy (1). The person can learn to see himself as a different person. Instead of being the person with low self-esteem, he can see himself as a guy that is able to become more positive. Since parents also play a big part in a child’s life growing up, they can also take part in helping their child develop his identity. Instead of boxing the child into the category of depression, they
The person may think that other people always see him as someone who is always down and that can affect him in a negative way. While having depression, a person can lose interest in their friends (3) or other things in life. A depressed person may shut everyone out and refuse to let people in. One way to treat this is through therapy. Once the person gains enough confidence to tell someone his problem, he is bound to gain support for what he is going through. If parents find their own child depressed, they should try to help him, however, not by enabling him and allowing to remain sad, but try to change the way the child processes events or just be there for