Essay: Depression and its relevance to Psychology

Sample Essay – Depression 

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This essay discusses depression and its relevance to psychology. Depression is a disease which affects people of all age groups, all genders and all ethnicities. There is no limit as to how severe it may be….

Humans pray to God to give them good health. What they do not realize is the power to have good health lies with them (Democritus).

Depression is a disease which affects people of all age groups, all genders and all ethnicities. There is no limit as to how severe it may be; it affects individuals in various ways. Depression is an illness which has affected people for many years; ever since life has existed on Earth. In the biblical times, depression was referred to as ‘manic-depression’ in the Old Testament. It was the Greek physician, Hippocrates who was the very first person to have given depression an actual medical description. He termed depression as melancholia. The meaning of melancholia is ‘mental disorder.’

Depression is a disease which can be hereditary. If the parents of a child suffer from depression, the likelihood of that child being prone to depression is high with a 50% chance of him having to face depression (Professor Myrna Weissman). If one of the parents is depressed, the probability of the child suffering from depression increase two fold. If the mother and father both have depression as a disease, the chances of the child being affected increases four fold (Myrna Weissman). Due to my father, I inherited a depressive temperament due to which I have gone mad (Samuel Johnson).

The main cause of depression:

Stress is considered to be the primary reason why a person suffers from depression. The amount of stress does not matter; whether it is little or a lot, being stressed can cause depression. Stress however does not always mean a person is depressed. Some people are able to deal with stress whereas there are some people who find it hard to…

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