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What is depression?

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What is depression?

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  1. (1): a state of feeling sad :dejection(2): a psychoneurotic or psychotic disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration, a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal tendencies c (1): a reduction in activity, amount, quality, or force (2): a lowering of vitality or functional activity What is depression?

  2. Neurosis: a mental and emotional disorder that affects only part of the personality, is accompanied by a less distorted perception of reality than in a psychosis, does not result in disturbance of the use of language, and is accompanied by various physical, physiological, and mental disturbances (as visceral symptoms, anxieties, or phobias) Psychoneurotic:neurosis; especially: a neurosis based on emotional conflict in which an impulse that has been blocked seeks expression in a disguised response or symptom

  3. Is depression a sin……

  4. Agree or Disagree... “People inherit depression like they inherit the color of their eyes”

  5. Agree or Disagree... “No one has to become depressed even in the most severe circumstances”

  6. Agree or Disagree... “Depressed people enjoy the extra attention.”

  7. Agree or Disagree... “Only people with no control over their lives become depressed.”

  8. Agree or Disagree... “Depression is the result of ‘stinkin’ thinkin’”.

  9. How do you see things? This glass is really half full

  10. Fill in the blank….. • When a person thinks, “Everything in life conspires against me,” he/she feels_________. • When someone thinks, “I’ll never amount to anything,” he/she feels __________. defeated worthless

  11. When a person thinks, “Life stinks,” he/she feels ___________. • When someone thinks, “Life couldn’t be any better than this,” he/she feels ______________. unhappy satisfied

  12. How attitudes are formed… Attitude Formed Step 4: Feelings seen in language Step 3: Connect thoughts with feelings Step 2: Thoughts about event Step 1: Event with impact

  13. How will you choose?

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