Informative Essay On Mood Disorders
Mood Disorders
You never know why a person does the things they or even what has cause them to be the person that they are. For example, you might never have known that famous people like Drew Carey, Jim Carrey, Sheryl Crow, even Pablo Picasso have depressive disorders. By reading, you will get an insight, if any, on mood disorders, along with how I found a relation in my personal life. As well as something relating to what I like to do in my free time.
Mood disorders are fairly attention-grabbing; especially if one realizes that they or someone they know have many of the symptoms. One with mood disorders experience long periods of depression or elation, which causes ones everyday actions to be disrupted. The main mood disorders are major depression, and bipolar disorder. Another type of mood disorder is called seasonal affective disorder. This is caused by the lack of sunlight that people with the disorder receive in usually the winter months. They say that the lack of sunlight disrupts their …show more content…
regular serotonin levels causing the depression. Phototherapy, which is daily doses of artificial sunlight, helps this disorder.
Major depression affects about 2 to 3 percent of men and 5 to 9 percent of women. Most people are depressed after a personal loss, whether it is the loss of a loved one, or even a daily failure. The frequency and amount of depression varies from person to person. Some symptoms of people with major depression most of the time show helplessness, low self esteem, and despondency, insomnia, loss of appetite, withdraw from social lifestyles, lack of personal grooming, and a lost interest in sex are some of the other symptoms of major depression.
There are many different views on which causes depression. On the biophysical view it has been found that this disorder can be related to inheritance, and these disorders do have a biological basis. These genetic factors seem that they affect the choice of stressful environment one seeks. An additional view is that the loss of a parent or even the rejection of a parent at a young age could make sure that this person will feel depressed anytime they suffer any kind of personal loss at a later time. Because the child doesn't want to express anger at that parent, they then keep those emotions private, turning that anger onto themselves, giving them a feeling of self hate.
Studies show that both depressed and non-depressed adults could have suffered a loss of a parent early on in life equally. In Peter Lewinsohn's reinforcement theory a person is caught in a cycle of depression; the person expels nothing but silence, no positive statements or gestures, and mainly says negative things, because of this trend, negative things seem to happen to them. People don't want to be around a bummer, so the bummer has a hard time making friends or keeping any kind of relationship, since this they drive out even more negativity because of how they feel when they get this negativity in return. Basically fighting fire with fire and growing each time.
People whom are depressed feature the negative things in their lives into three kinds of factors, stable, internal, and global. Internal factors are characteristics of one’s self, stable factors don't usually change, and global factors have to do with almost every area of one’s life. For example: if someone were to get a bad grade on a test, the non depressed person would blame it on the teacher or the test itself, where as the depressed person blames only themselves. In many situations, like this, the depressed person actually has the reality of the problem solved, but for the non-depressed person ignorance is bliss, they go about their day as if nothing were their fault. The cognitive view of this disorder is mostly the same. It says that people with depression tend to always see things in a negative aspect and never a positive one.
Relating to this topic is easy, which is why I chose to write about mood disorders. The more I get older I catch myself becoming more and more like my mother. I’ve watched it happen over the years with my own eyes. But that is not the person I want to be. My mother could be the most loving person in the world one moment and in the next she could make me feel terrible, tiny, small and mediocre, you name it. I never knew from one day to the next how things would be. Growing up was like having to walk on eggshells day and night. My mother is Bipolar. This can cause her moods to swing from one extreme to the other without warning. When I was younger, I never knew why or how she could act the way she did. It was a touchy subject and was blamed on PMS or stress. My mom is still the person I grew up with, and isn’t the type of woman to get treatment or help in any way; but I hope she does. Seeing how mood disorders affect people first hand has given me plenty of insight on other people. Like having said before, relating to mood disorders was easy. I’ve always been curious and I wonder if it is possible for me to have any as well. And if that is that case that I do, or end up having one, it is not something I plan on bottling up and hiding without any help.
Another relation I found to mood disorders is that I personally love the new TV thriller, Homeland.
In the show, Claire Danes plays a CIA agent on the hunt to reveal the truth about a recovered American POW-turned terrorist. Dane’s character is highly effective, smart, stable, and she even has a mood disorder. Because she’s a CIA spy, she sneaks medication from her physician-sister so there won’t be a trace on her medical record. She visits her dad, who is not coping with his illness as well, and reminds him that anti-depressants may make him truly manic, or may just feel manic, in comparison to feelings of depression. But if you didn’t know she has a mood disorder, you would never know. In a way I think it accurately shows a character with a mood disorder honestly. Often in other TV shows, we see characters with a mood disorder as homeless, homicidal maniacs, or otherwise dysfunctional. I think it’s a nice change of pace, and helps those who watch it, find a
relation.
To conclude, this gives one insight on mood disorders. How people can become to have them, or even act with them. My relation to mood disorders is my mothers, or possible even myself. An additional relation I talked about was my found love of the show Homeland. As well as a relation it shows how you can’t just tell by looking at someone what is wrong with them, it makes one seem “normal” and sometimes medication, like in the show and reality, it hides and helps with disorders like so.
You never know why a person does the things they or even what has cause them to be the person that they are. For example, you might never have known that famous people like Drew Carey, Jim Carrey, Sheryl Crow, even Pablo Picasso have depressive disorders. By reading, you will get an insight, if any, on mood disorders, along with how I found a relation in my personal life. As well as something relating to what I like to do in my free time.
Mood disorders are fairly attention-grabbing; especially if one realizes that they or someone they know have many of the symptoms. One with mood disorders experience long periods of depression or elation, which causes ones everyday actions to be disrupted. The main mood disorders are major depression, and bipolar disorder. Another type of mood disorder is called seasonal affective disorder. This is caused by the lack of sunlight that people with the disorder receive in usually the winter months. They say that the lack of sunlight disrupts their …show more content…
regular serotonin levels causing the depression. Phototherapy, which is daily doses of artificial sunlight, helps this disorder.
Major depression affects about 2 to 3 percent of men and 5 to 9 percent of women. Most people are depressed after a personal loss, whether it is the loss of a loved one, or even a daily failure. The frequency and amount of depression varies from person to person. Some symptoms of people with major depression most of the time show helplessness, low self esteem, and despondency, insomnia, loss of appetite, withdraw from social lifestyles, lack of personal grooming, and a lost interest in sex are some of the other symptoms of major depression.
There are many different views on which causes depression. On the biophysical view it has been found that this disorder can be related to inheritance, and these disorders do have a biological basis. These genetic factors seem that they affect the choice of stressful environment one seeks. An additional view is that the loss of a parent or even the rejection of a parent at a young age could make sure that this person will feel depressed anytime they suffer any kind of personal loss at a later time. Because the child doesn't want to express anger at that parent, they then keep those emotions private, turning that anger onto themselves, giving them a feeling of self hate.
Studies show that both depressed and non-depressed adults could have suffered a loss of a parent early on in life equally. In Peter Lewinsohn's reinforcement theory a person is caught in a cycle of depression; the person expels nothing but silence, no positive statements or gestures, and mainly says negative things, because of this trend, negative things seem to happen to them. People don't want to be around a bummer, so the bummer has a hard time making friends or keeping any kind of relationship, since this they drive out even more negativity because of how they feel when they get this negativity in return. Basically fighting fire with fire and growing each time.
People whom are depressed feature the negative things in their lives into three kinds of factors, stable, internal, and global. Internal factors are characteristics of one’s self, stable factors don't usually change, and global factors have to do with almost every area of one’s life. For example: if someone were to get a bad grade on a test, the non depressed person would blame it on the teacher or the test itself, where as the depressed person blames only themselves. In many situations, like this, the depressed person actually has the reality of the problem solved, but for the non-depressed person ignorance is bliss, they go about their day as if nothing were their fault. The cognitive view of this disorder is mostly the same. It says that people with depression tend to always see things in a negative aspect and never a positive one.
Relating to this topic is easy, which is why I chose to write about mood disorders. The more I get older I catch myself becoming more and more like my mother. I’ve watched it happen over the years with my own eyes. But that is not the person I want to be. My mother could be the most loving person in the world one moment and in the next she could make me feel terrible, tiny, small and mediocre, you name it. I never knew from one day to the next how things would be. Growing up was like having to walk on eggshells day and night. My mother is Bipolar. This can cause her moods to swing from one extreme to the other without warning. When I was younger, I never knew why or how she could act the way she did. It was a touchy subject and was blamed on PMS or stress. My mom is still the person I grew up with, and isn’t the type of woman to get treatment or help in any way; but I hope she does. Seeing how mood disorders affect people first hand has given me plenty of insight on other people. Like having said before, relating to mood disorders was easy. I’ve always been curious and I wonder if it is possible for me to have any as well. And if that is that case that I do, or end up having one, it is not something I plan on bottling up and hiding without any help.
Another relation I found to mood disorders is that I personally love the new TV thriller, Homeland.
In the show, Claire Danes plays a CIA agent on the hunt to reveal the truth about a recovered American POW-turned terrorist. Dane’s character is highly effective, smart, stable, and she even has a mood disorder. Because she’s a CIA spy, she sneaks medication from her physician-sister so there won’t be a trace on her medical record. She visits her dad, who is not coping with his illness as well, and reminds him that anti-depressants may make him truly manic, or may just feel manic, in comparison to feelings of depression. But if you didn’t know she has a mood disorder, you would never know. In a way I think it accurately shows a character with a mood disorder honestly. Often in other TV shows, we see characters with a mood disorder as homeless, homicidal maniacs, or otherwise dysfunctional. I think it’s a nice change of pace, and helps those who watch it, find a
relation.
To conclude, this gives one insight on mood disorders. How people can become to have them, or even act with them. My relation to mood disorders is my mothers, or possible even myself. An additional relation I talked about was my found love of the show Homeland. As well as a relation it shows how you can’t just tell by looking at someone what is wrong with them, it makes one seem “normal” and sometimes medication, like in the show and reality, it hides and helps with disorders like so.