Case Study
Case Study
Case Study
Vignette 1 An experience of stress
Vignette 1 An experience of stress
The following extract is taken from an interview with a 43-year-old woman, who was diagnosed with depression at 40.
The following extract is taken from an interview with a 43-year-old woman, who was diagnosed with depression at 40.
Background: Is a divorced part time carer. Before her depression and suicide attempt she was a workaholic in a job that was becoming more demanding. Her depression required hospitalisation.
Background: Is a divorced part time carer. Before her depression and suicide attempt she was a workaholic in a job that was becoming more demanding. Her depression required hospitalisation.
‘Work had always been really important to me and I’m more like a perfectionist. So everything has to be a 100%, you know, and all that. And I got made promotion several times with my job, and then suddenly, I think like many companies, people started making people redundant, and requesting people to take on more and more and more. In the end I was doing the job 5 people used to do. I was enjoying it. I enjoyed it to the point where it was just getting, physically it was just getting an impossibility. But I’d always loved my job, but it was then becoming that I was away 5, 6 days a week, getting home and I couldn’t get away from work basically, because I would get back here and there would be faxes and messages and goodness knows what and … A lot of my job was travelling a lot I was covering a huge area, not just the UK. And one day I just sort of came home after I had been away for a week, parked my car outside, sat on the pavement and just broke down, basically.’ (Health Experience Research Group cited in The Open University, 2015).
‘Work had always been really important to me and I’m more like a perfectionist. So everything has to be a 100%, you know, and all that. And I got made promotion several times with my job, and then suddenly, I think like many companies, people started making people redundant, and requesting people to take on more and more and more. In the end I was doing the job 5 people used to do. I was enjoying it. I enjoyed it to the point where it was just getting, physically it was just getting an impossibility. But I’d always loved my job, but it was then becoming that I was away 5, 6 days a week, getting home and I couldn’t get away from work basically, because I would get back here and there would be faxes and messages and goodness knows what and … A lot of my job was travelling a lot I was covering a huge area, not just the UK. And one day I just sort of came home after I had been away for a week, parked my car outside, sat on the pavement and just broke down, basically.’ (Health Experience Research Group cited in The Open University, 2015).
Brenda's Story
Brenda's Story
“It was really hard to get out of bed in the morning. I just wanted to hide under the covers and not talk to anyone. I didn’t feel much like eating and I lost a lot of weight. Nothing seemed fun anymore. I was tired all the time, yet I wasn’t sleeping well at night. But I knew that I had to keep going because I’ve got kids and a job. It just felt so impossible, like nothing was going to change or get better. “I started missing days from work, and a friend noticed that something wasn’t right. She talked to me about the time that she had been really depressed and had gotten help from her doctor. I called my doctor and talked about how I was feeling. She had me come in for a checkup and gave me the name of a psychiatrist, who is an expert in treating depression. “Now, I’m seeing the psychiatrist once a month and taking medicine for depression. I’m also seeing someone else for “talk” therapy, which helps me learn ways to deal with this illness in my everyday life. “Everything didn’t get better overnight, but I find myself more able to enjoy life and my children.
“It was really hard to get out of bed in the morning. I just wanted to hide under the covers and not talk to anyone. I didn’t feel much like eating and I lost a lot of weight. Nothing seemed fun anymore. I was tired all the time, yet I wasn’t sleeping well at night. But I knew that I had to keep going because I’ve got kids and a job. It just felt so impossible, like nothing was going to change or get better. “I started missing days from work, and a friend noticed that something wasn’t right. She talked to me about the time that she had been really depressed and had gotten help from her doctor. I called my doctor and talked about how I was feeling. She had me come in for a checkup and gave me the name of a psychiatrist, who is an expert in treating depression. “Now, I’m seeing the psychiatrist once a month and taking medicine for depression. I’m also seeing someone else for “talk” therapy, which helps me learn ways to deal with this illness in my everyday life. “Everything didn’t get better overnight, but I find myself more able to enjoy life and my children.
Read the inspirational blog 'The Long Road to Happiness' written by Anita Pilgrim about her journey to overcome depression. Thanks to her for allowing us to share her work with global audience. https://learn1.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/viewpost.php?post=213660
Read the inspirational blog 'The Long Road to Happiness' written by Anita Pilgrim about her journey to overcome depression. Thanks to her for allowing us to share her work with global audience. https://learn1.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/viewpost.php?post=213660
Depression has affected many woman in Pakistan.
Depression has affected many woman in Pakistan.
Click the link below to read the research about the story of a depressive Pakistani woman.
Click the link below to read the research about the story of a depressive Pakistani woman.
Reference
Reference
National Institute of Mental Health (2019). Stories of Depression. [ebook] Available at: http://www.namisolanocounty.org/information/mental_illnesses/NIMHstoriesdepression.pdf [Accessed 5 Feb. 2019].
National Institute of Mental Health (2019). Stories of Depression. [ebook] Available at: http://www.namisolanocounty.org/information/mental_illnesses/NIMHstoriesdepression.pdf [Accessed 5 Feb. 2019].