The Great Depression Movie Essay
Millions of Americans live with various types of mental illness and mental health problems, such as social anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, drug addiction, and personality disorders. Depression is a serious and pervasive mood disorder. It causes feelings of sadness, hopelessness, helplessness, and worthlessness. Depression can be mild to moderate with symptoms of apathy, little appetite, difficulty sleeping, low self-esteem, and low-grade fatigue. Or it can be more severe. Side Effects is a movie about how a stressful life event can lead to Depression. It also include how not getting the proper help can destroy or ruining a life. If Depression left untreated, it may worsen and last for months or sometimes even years. More
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With the pressure of his return, unemployment and money woes, Emily's struggles with anxiety and depression land her in the hospital. Shortly later on, Emily drives her car into a concrete wall in an apparent suicide attempt. Jonathan Banks her assigned psychiatrist, fears for her safety but agrees to her release from the hospital as long as she attends sessions with him on a regular basis. Emily Taylor attempts suicide twice, she was hopeless and helpless, and she sometimes feel worthlessness. Emily’s life style change because her and her husband lost everything and he went to jail. The helplessness Feelings of hopelessness was too much for her to bear, and her husband wasn’t there to help her, she was basically along. She didn’t exactly have a friend or friends to help through the transition, which lead to mental and social stress. She was on her own, she was living in small an apartment, and she had to take care of herself now and the bills which was something she didn’t use to. The antidepressants they prescribe her wasn’t working, she didn’t drink them at times. Jonathan Banks her assigned psychiatrist prescribes a wide variety of the usual pharmaceutical suspects — Zoloft, Effexor, Wellbutrin — to control her symptoms. But while she experiences many of the common side effects (sleepwalking, altered sex drive), none of these
With the pressure of his return, unemployment and money woes, Emily's struggles with anxiety and depression land her in the hospital. Shortly later on, Emily drives her car into a concrete wall in an apparent suicide attempt. Jonathan Banks her assigned psychiatrist, fears for her safety but agrees to her release from the hospital as long as she attends sessions with him on a regular basis. Emily Taylor attempts suicide twice, she was hopeless and helpless, and she sometimes feel worthlessness. Emily’s life style change because her and her husband lost everything and he went to jail. The helplessness Feelings of hopelessness was too much for her to bear, and her husband wasn’t there to help her, she was basically along. She didn’t exactly have a friend or friends to help through the transition, which lead to mental and social stress. She was on her own, she was living in small an apartment, and she had to take care of herself now and the bills which was something she didn’t use to. The antidepressants they prescribe her wasn’t working, she didn’t drink them at times. Jonathan Banks her assigned psychiatrist prescribes a wide variety of the usual pharmaceutical suspects — Zoloft, Effexor, Wellbutrin — to control her symptoms. But while she experiences many of the common side effects (sleepwalking, altered sex drive), none of these