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Depression

I am sure everyone,at one time or another, has experienced some form of depression. Some actually suffer from several types of depression. In fact, according to MMWR, 4.1% of the US population between 2006-2008, suffered from major depression, 5.1% suffered from other kinds of depression and 9.1% suffered from any kind of depression. After reading the "What does it feel like to be depressed?" article, I realized that depression comes in many different forms. I was most able to relate to Pamela. She states, "I feel like sometimes my life is on hold. I'm going to be out of a job and that's my life over because [the company] has been my life for 20 years, you know, I've, I don't know anything else." Researchers call that //temporal depletion, the feeling of the past and the future being depleted. P//sychologists Jonathan Smith and John Rhodes have published their analysis of the first-hand accounts of seven therapy clients, (three women and four men) about what it's like to be depressed for the first time. Smith and Rhodes noticed that all the participants had 2 things in common, they all felt alone/empty and felt that they had no future. Researcher's explained that the picture was not of a "steady, flat, fixed-state" but of a "fluctuating see-saw between long periods of descents into emptiness and moments of explosive emotion." Smith and Rhodes both hope that the information that they collected can one day help others with coping with their own depression.

References: > and being shaken: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the > experiential features of a first episode of depression Psychology and Psychotherapy: > Theory, Research and Practice DOI: [|10.1111/papt.12034]
 * 1) CDC. Current Depression Among Adults --- United States, 2006 and 2008. MMWR 2010;59(38);1229-1235.
 * 2) Smith, J., and Rhodes, J. (2014). Being depleted

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