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    EFFECTS OF DEPRESSION IN ADOLESCENCE In recent years‚ depression has been a major topic in the news and media and its effect on individuals. Depression therefore is a serious condition that affects the human brain in such a way that it affects the thoughts and intentions of many. Adolescent depression is often overlooked because they have a hard time expressing their feelings which leads to serious complications in most teenagers because they have a hard time dealing with school work and mates

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    Teen Suicide and Depression “Help ME!!!” Do you ever wonder if being irritable or an unhappy adolescent might actually be experiencing teen depression? Teenage Depression is everywhere we look‚ these two words appears together as one‚ in newspapers and magazines‚ as well as in scholarly reports. Teenage depression is one of today ’s "hot topics" this among other teenage mental health problems‚ has been brought to the forefront of public consciousness in recent years after several incidents involving

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    Dylan Blandino Depression The story of Rosie Anaya explains how clinical depression can affect a college student’s life. Depression is a mental disorder that might be caused by a bad personal experience or other life changing situations. This story illustrates the life of a college girl that suffers depression and how she felt about it. Rosie finds out that she is not the only person that suffers from this common psychological stress within a college lifestyle. Thereafter‚ she began to do

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    Elderly People In Prisons

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    Audience: correctional staff Subject: Should prisons allow elderly people to be released and be under supervised parole for the rest of their lives. Author’s/Speaker’s Main Purpose or Claim: We will save money if it is possible and elder people leave the jail to avoid the necessary training for correction officers‚ “the costs of medication and accomadations throughout the prison such as wheelchair accesability and units with lower bunks.” Author’s/Speaker’s Tone (Tone=how the author/speaker feels

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    disorders. One of the most common questionnaires used to examine the symptoms of depression is the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) Individuals are asked to choose which description best describes the way they have felt in the last week. For example: 0 I do not feel unhappy 1 I feel unhappy 2 I am unhappy 3 I am so unhappy I can’t stand it Their choices are added to determine the severity of the depression symptoms. PERSONAL INVENTORIES Personal inventories are questionnaires used to

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    Eternity’s Gate’) ICD-10 F32‚ F33 ICD-9 296.2‚ 296.3 OMIM 608516 DiseasesDB 3589 MedlinePlus 003213 eMedicine med/532 MeSH D003865 Major depressive disorder (MDD) (also known as clinical depression‚ major depression‚ unipolar depression‚ unipolar disorder or recurrent depression in the case of repeated episodes) is a mental disorder characterized by episodes of all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities

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    Living spiritually and living happy My interviewee is a woman who is named “Mary”; she has been my neighbor for ten years now. I have become very close to her. Her age is 76 and resides in the beautiful city of La Verne‚ CA. She is female‚ oldest of three children who came from the mid-west‚ Iowa/Minnesota area. She came to California when she was seven years old. She has been happily married to her husband‚ a recently retired pastor‚ for 55 years. They have two daughters‚ and three grandchildren

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    Page 1 of 29 Thyroid Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction and Functional Capacity among Elderly (doi: 10.1089/thy.2013.0071) This article has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication‚ but has yet to undergo copyediting and proof correction. The final published version may differ from this proof. 1 Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction and Functional Capacity among Elderly 1 2‚3 1 Vanessa S. Virgini‚ MD *‚ Liselotte W. Wijsman‚ MD *‚ Nicolas Rodondi‚ MD‚ MAS ‚ Douglas C. 4 5

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    Elderly Client Project Winston Salem State University Nursing 3303 October 17‚ 2012 Elderly Client Project Mrs. F. Nowell is a ninety-four year old mother‚ grandmother and great grandmother living in a skilled nursing facility. She has several co-morbidities which are managed medically and chemically within a detailed nursing care plan. She is diagnosed with type II diabetes‚ hypertension‚ coronary artery disease‚ pedal

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    aimed to analyze the physical activity levels among the elderly population in the United States. Individuals who are 65 years and older are classified as elderly. As age is positively correlated with the increase of health risks‚ exploring the barriers of physical activity among this population is essential. There are clear barriers to physical activity among this population as the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion claims the elderly population as the most physically inactive of any age

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