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Heather A Omahen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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i am not a Depressed Person how identity conflict affects help seeking rates for major depressive disorder
BMC Psychiatry, 2012Co-Authors: Caroline Farmer, Paul Farrand, Heather A OmahenAbstract:There is a significant treatment gap for patients with depression. A third of sufferers never seek help, and the vast majority of those who do only do so after considerable delay. Little is understood regarding poor help-seeking rates amongst people with depression, with existing research mainly focussed on the impact of barriers to treatment. The current study explored psychological factors affecting help-seeking behaviour in clinically Depressed individuals. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 current or previously clinically Depressed participants who either had or had not sought professional help. Thematic analysis was used to analyse results. The onset of depressive symptoms created conflict with participants’ identity and Personal goals. Delays in seeking help were primarily attributed to the desire to protect identity and goals from the threat of depressive symptoms. Participants used avoidance strategies to reduce the perceived threat of depressive symptoms on identity. These strategies interfered with help-seeking. Help-seeking was only undertaken once participants reached a point of acceptance and began to make concessions in their identity and goals, at which time they reduced their use of avoidance. Difficulties resolving conflict between identity and depressive symptoms may account for significant delays in seeking help for depression. The results have implications for predicting health behaviour and improving treatment uptake for depression, and may inform existing help-seeking models.
Gary J Kennedy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the geriatric syndrome of late life depression
Psychiatric Services, 1995Co-Authors: Gary J KennedyAbstract:: Existing data on the treatment, course, and outcome of depression are not representative of the older Depressed Person who is most frequently encountered in clinical practice. If mental health services are to become more effectively applied, late-life depression should be conceptualized not as a categorical disorder but as a geriatric syndrome with multiple etiologies requiring a combination of treatments. To support this argument, the author reviews the prevalence of late-life depression across clinical and community settings and in association with somatic and central nervous system conditions. He recommends a comprehensive geriatric assessment and a tripartite treatment approach incorporating definitive, rehabilitative, and supportive interventions.
Jean Bocharova - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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David Foster Wallace’s Catholic Imagination: “The Depressed Person” and Orthodoxy
Renascence, 2020Co-Authors: Jean BocharovaAbstract:Although scholars have read “The Depressed Person” in relation to questions of the self and problems of communication and self-expression, this paper reads the story as an entry point for examining the religious dimensions of Wallace’s work. Comparing Wallace with G.K. Chesterton, the paper argues that if we can accept that the Depressed Person’s condition is not a biologically grounded clinical depression but an exaggerated Personification of a common ailment—a particular brand of loneliness—then we can see that we each have a stake in the search for a way to break the dehumanizing pull of our own egos. Wallace and Chesterton point to submission and attention as potential means of escape, even if they disagree about how to do this. When confronted with the challenge of finding happiness, joy, and connection in a world that encourages introspection, explanatory mastery, and mechanistic views of the self—of finding meaning in the face of forces of meaninglessness, nihilism, and self-centeredness—both draw on imaginative literature as a source of knowledge. Wallace stops just short of orthodoxy, but his works stand as courageous defenses of the human Person against the strange but dangerous foes of modern American life.
Ellen Defossez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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unending narrative one sided empathy and problematic contexts of interaction in david foster wallace s the Depressed Person
The Journal of Medical Humanities, 2018Co-Authors: Ellen DefossezAbstract:In 1997, David Foster Wallace published “The Depressed Person,” a short story about a privileged, deeply unhappy woman dedicated to exploring and recounting the texture and etiology of her chronic depression. This essay argues that “The Depressed Person” challenges the long-standing assumption that narrativizing the pain of depression is crucial to overcoming it, and the contemporary view that empathic responses from others promote recovery of the Depressed. Taken together, these two critiques inform Wallace’s portrayal of chronic depression as an interactive phenomenon that is articulated, sustained, and regenerated through problematic contexts of interaction. Written at a time when public knowledge of and talk about depression was surging, “The Depressed Person” holds an important, if presently under-recognized place, in the expansive corpus of depression texts that emerged in the 1990s.
Jan Treur - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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IEA/AIE - An ambient agent model for support of informal caregivers during stress
Advanced Research in Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2012Co-Authors: Azizi Ab Aziz, Jan TreurAbstract:Caring for a Depressed Person may have substantial impact on the health and well-being of the caregiver. In this paper, an ambient agent model is proposed that supports caregivers, to prevent or decrease the burden in them and promote their well-being. The agent integrates a domain model of the functioning of the caregiver and the care recipient and their interaction, and exploits model-based reasoning to assess the caregiver's state in order to generate dedicated actions that are tuned to the circumstances.
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AIME - Intelligent configuration of social support networks around Depressed Persons
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2011Co-Authors: Azizi Ab Aziz, Michel C A Klein, Jan TreurAbstract:Helping someone who is Depressed can be very important to the Depressed Person. A number of supportive family members or friends can often make a big difference. This paper addresses how a social support network can be formed, taking the needs of the support recipient and the possibilities of the potential support providers into account. To do so, dynamic models about the preferences and needs of both support providers and support recipients are exploited. The outcome of this is used as input for a configuration process of a support network. In a case study, it is show how such an intelligently formed network results in a reduced long term stress level.