... disorders, depressive episodes, somatisation and adjustment reactions are all different entities, but in practice it is not always that clear-cut. Major depression, as defined by psychiatrists, is unfortunately relatively common. What is depression? The term "affect" refers to one's mood or "spirits." "Affective disorder" refers to changes in mood that occur during an episode of illness marked by extreme sadness (depression) or excitement (mania) or both. Depression is a disorder of affect. Affective disorders are predominantly disturbances of mood that are severe in nature and persistent despite the influenc ...

... killing that person. They believe that no action is better than taking the wrong action. People believe that to be the cause of someone’s death is wrong. No one wants to be blamed for someone’s death, so people believe passive euthanasia is acceptable because the doctor is not actually killing the patient. People believe that a doctor should not play God and make decisions concerning someone else’s life. What happens if a cure is found for the disease? The sick person died for no good reason. What if the patient gets better? If they are killed then they have no chance to get better. According to t ...

... that, depression is often also characterised by physical changes (for example, sleep and appetite disturbances) as well as emotional and behavioral changes (Cited in Matsumoto, 1995, p 232). Rosenhan & Seligman (1995) state that, " there are two kinds of depressive disorders; Unipolar depression in which the individual suffers only depressive symptoms without ever experiencing mania, and bipolar depression in which both depression and mania occur" (Cited in Rosenhan & Seligman, 1995, p 352). Furthermore, Rosenhan & Seligman (1995) go on to say that, normal depression differs in the degree of symptoms to ...

... by every health care professional. It is an essential attribute if one is to be able to support and comfort families which are in the midst of tragedy. A multitude of different situations arise in this profession which can not be appropriately managed without employing one's own compassion as a fellow human being as a reference point. In order to provide an appropriate balance of emotional and physical care one must be able to 'put themselves in the patient's/family's/loved one's shoes'. In a recent "NurseWeek" article (see bibliography), Deepa Arora discussed the issue of instilling hope in patients with ...

... with the divine plan. Euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death persons who have incurable , painful, or distressing diseases or handicaps. It come from the Greek words for 'good' and 'death', and is commonly called mercy killing. Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill persons ask their physician, friend or relative , to put them to death. The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor ...

... a loss of appetite, coughing and a low fever so she went to visit her doctor. Her doctor admitted her to the hospital with bacterial pneumonia and after three days of unsuccessful treatment it was discovered that she actually had active tuberculosis. This misdiagnosis shows the similarities between the two diseases and how easily they can be confused. Pneumonia Pneumonia is a serious infection or inflammation of the lungs with exudation and consolidation. Pneumonia can be one of two types: lobar pneumonia or bronchial pneumonia. Lobar pneumonia affects one lobe of a lung while bronchial pneumonia affec ...

... is where the blood from the entire body is transported to the right auricle through two large veins. The superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava. When the right auricle contracts, it forces the blood through an opening into the right ventricle. Contraction of this ventricle drives the blood to the lungs. Blood is prevented from returning into the auricle by the tricuspid valve, which completely closes during contraction of the ventricle. In its passage through the lungs, the blood is oxygenated, that is, then it is brought back to the heart by the four pulmonary veins, which enter the left auricle. W ...

... have it. Type II infects over fifteen million Americans (Editorial, 26). First, I wanted to answer the question: How does a person get the disease? I found that it may be caused by many different factors. There are conflicting ideas between sources. The most recent book I used was Diabetes by Carol Semple printed in 1996. On page seventeen, he states that Type II is hereditary. In my oldest source, Diabetes by Sarah Riedman printed in 1980, she stated on page five that Type II is not a hereditary disorder. I concluded that Type II is hereditary because all the newer sources support that fact. In my s ...

... girl, decides to sleep with an 18-year-old boy. She gets pregnant and has an because she is not ready to be a mother. Should Jessica be charged with the death of an unborn baby? The answer to both of the questions is, yes. is wrong, cruel and most of all, it goes against the word of GOD. When a woman decides to have sex she is taking the chance of getting pregnant, even if she uses protection. If she doesn't want to get pregnant she shouldn't have sex, and she should be responsible enough to suffer the consequences. For example, Carrie is very promiscuous and finds out that she is pregnant, so she goes a ...

... as temporary fatigue because the risks outweigh the benefits. Many persons suffer ill effects from drugs even though they take the drug exactly as directed by the doctor or the label. The human population, unlike a colony of ants or bees, contains a great variety of genetic variation. Drugs are tested on at most a few thousand people. When that same drug is taken by millions, some people may not respond in a predictable way to the drug. A person who has a so-called idiosyncratic response to a particular sedative, for example, may become excited rather than relaxed. Others may be hypersensitive, or extremely sens ...