Question

So basically, I'm writing a health assessment on a patient with depression, but I don't have an actual patient to use as a case study therefore I have to fabricate one. My Question is if you suffer with depression, how does it affect your life and standards of living? How does it affect your social life, etc, etc.

Any feed back would be grateful as it has to be in on the 4th of November ><

Answer 1

@HexidecimatE
it greatly affect my life because it makes everything seem duller. my standards .
of living are very low because im ok with just about anything because it at least something my social life is virtualy nonexistant because i feel bad that everyone else iis so happy and im not i have to take more than an adult dose of antidepressants and it still doesnt work
hope this helped if not message

Answer 2

All my friends keep giving me advice on how to get better. Think happy thoughts. Go out, do things, have fun.

My family tries to be supportive.
But I feel like more of a burden on them than anything.

They're all so happy,
and I'm just so different.

And they know it.

I know what I have to do.
What's hard is doing it.

I don't half as much enjoy all the things I used to love doing anymore.
I don't read.
I don't play videogames.
I don't go out with my friends.

I have no energy. No motivation.

It's like seeing a lightswitch, right in front of me.
I know it's there.
I know that if I flip the switch, the light will turn on. Things might get better.

But I just...can't bring myself to walk over to the switch.

I mean....I'm not like this brain-dead pile of misery.
Sometimes I smile. Laugh.

But in the end, there's nothing that separates one day from the next.
In the end, I'm just walking, living, breathing,
doing all these things without actually being alive.

Sometimes I wonder if this was all I was meant to do.
All that anyone was ever meant to do.

And if so...then what's the point?

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I don't actually have depression.

But for your little assignment, I tried putting myself in the mind of someone who does have depression.

Answer 3

dude great verbal imagery, but I need more symptom based anecdotes, more objective and less dramatic, this isn't me blowing you off, I'll certainly use portions of it maybe. I actually do suffer from depression myself, but I can't do a case study on myself.

Drakedoesmc, how long have you been on antidepressants? Have you been offered alternatives to medication such as therapy? Sorry to probe into your life man, I realize things like this can be awful hard to discuss but I really appreciate it :)

Answer 4

when were you diagnosed, how long prior to this did you notice the symptoms, was there anything that brought it on and what stage/classification are you?

Answer 5

Oh yeah sure, whatever helps, it's fine.