ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION

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C; Model and hypothesis

The debate about the presence of anxiety and depression experienced later in life might be a close relationship to a person’s past and especially their childhood experiences. Some of these experiences are trauma and generally experiences which were not pleasant (Nemeroff, 2004). It is therefore upon this that we can develop various hypotheses in line with anxiety disorders and depression; some of the hypotheses for this paper include;

Post-traumatic stress anxiety and depression is a sign that a person did not heal completely from the traumatic experiences which they experienced during their childhood or during the time they experienced trauma and stress like after losing their job.

Childhood trauma experience has a very close and straightforward relation to a person’s mental issues when they are grown especially on issues to do with a persons anxiety and depression

Schizophrenia is a sign of depression and it displays the different ways the pain and the emotional torture a child experiences when they are young is expressed through their behaviour

If a person gets warm and good social treatment when they are young and they are provided with the necessary love and support needed at this point then they are unable to display excessive depression and anxiety later in life.

The first hypothesis talks of how depression and anxiety is an indication of a need for continued care and love which has to be given to those suffering from this issue. Once there is enough love then most of the time the feeling of being un-important fades away. The feeling of having lost everything is worked on so that it does not affect a person’s entire life and the generalizations they make about themselves and who they are in life. Childhood trauma is stated to be a clear and direct factor towards the quality of a person’s mental health issues, the intensity as well as their ability to control what happens to them. Another way in which the childhood trauma expresses itself clearly from the time a person reaches the adolescent years is through schizophrenia which is a sign of depression. This makes a person restless and unable to sleep and this is a problem that needs to be looked into urgently once the hypothesis is confirmed as true and therefore remedies to be availed to make sure that schizophrenia does not adversely affect a person (Lubin, et, al., 2003).

Therefore the assertion that a childhood’s early years can affect them when grown up, is portrayed through their social life later in life. The question that a person’s later life is mainly based on how the child’s upbringing takes place, indicates a central place in the life of the adults and their evaluation for early life trauma. The major cause for depression, trauma and anxiety can be related to parents disciplining behaviours. Most of the times the parents never wish to hurt their children but rather through the process of disciplining it later becomes a psychological issue and torture which brings them anxiety and depression. Therefore basically the research question is justifiable through the discussion of the major tenets which affect a person’s mental health and are a causative agent towards anxiety and depression.

According to Freud’s, (Barnes, 1952), the stages in which a child develops from the time they are born and if they receive what their bodies need both physically and emotionally determines the different ways in which to heal and deal with what happened to the person in question. Therefore for cases of anxiety and depression there is a need for special care and unconditional love accorded to these individual to alleviate their depression and anxiety related to early life experiences.

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Even though it is true that a person needs to have emotional balance this does not happen always and therefore most people get into depression and anxiety when they are unable to get what they want. Therefore when children do not get proper emotional care, they develop different ways of dealing with the trauma they experience in their lives at different stages. The manner in which the variables and the tenets herein are related is of great significance as it creates trust, love peace, and harmony. For example, if a person does not get emotional stability when they were young, however with growing up they come to live with a very good family which provides emotional support then it becomes very easy to blend and heal. This means depression and anxiety might not affect them adversely. However, this does not always happen automatically and therefore the need to take care of one another.

The correlation between anxiety, depression and the role of family is a very important one. Most of the families do not experience harmony and total peace. However, a person has to be able to move on and live a good life. The desire for these wishes and needs at that particular time even though great and important might not always be possible. This leads to understanding how the different people in the society view and manage their lives as well as how they can manage to fulfill the innate desires of their bodies of being loved and accepted. The time taken between when a person experiences stress and when depression is visible to the outside world is also of great significance. This is because what a person experiences when they are kids, may show up so much later in life or might show very early in a person’s life. Therefore when a person experiences the effects of their childhood then it means that they had negative experiences therefore the need for proper guidance, love, and compassion for their lives become important instrument (El‐Sheikh, 2007).

The intensity of trauma when a person is a child may be taken as the independent variables and the other variables like the time taken to show up, the ability for a person to trust among other factors which are of great significance in the life of the individual affected. The relationship between these variables leads us to the conclusions and discussion that if the intensity of trauma a child experienced is increased then it means that the child will experience more effects like anxiety and depression later in life, however, if the intensity of trauma is low then it means that a person’s experiences later in life are not very many and complex like the situation of having had a lot of trauma when the child was young.

References

Barnes, C. A. (1952). A statistical study of the Freudian theory of levels of psychosexual development. Genetic Psychology Monographs.Cherry, Kendra. “Freud’s Psychosexual Stages of Development.” Verywell Mind, Verywellmind, 12 Jan. 2006, www.verywellmind.com/freuds-stages-of-psychosexual-development-2795962.

El‐Sheikh, M., Buckhalt, J. A., Mark Cummings, E., & Keller, P. (2007). Sleep disruptions and emotional insecurity are pathways of risk for children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(1), 88-96.

Lubit, R., Rovine, D., Defrancisci, L., & Eth, S. (2003). Impact of trauma on children. Journal of Psychiatric Practice®, 9(2), 128-138.

Nemeroff, C. B. (2004). Neurobiological consequences of childhood trauma. The Journal of clinical psychiatry.