ou may appear highly excited, act silly or even just argumentative. You also may experience hallucinations, and may be delirious. The characteristics of this disorder are:~ Inflated self esteem~ Inability to sit still or sleep restfully~ Pressure to keep talking and switching from topic to topic~ Racing thoughts “Flight of Ideas”~ Difficulty concentratingAnother trait that you may engage in is impulsive behaviors, such as wild spending sprees, quitting your jobs to fulfill your life long dreams and making foolish business investments. Psychoanalytic scientists believe that these “depressed” people have suffered a real or imaginary loss of a loved object or person in their childhood. The child feels anger toward the lost object or person, but instead of expressing the anger, they take it in internally and direct it to themselves. They begin to feel guilty and you sense a loss of self-esteem. This leads to depression.People prone to depression have learned through experience to believe that previous events in their lives were out of control. This leads them to expect the future events will be out of their control as well. Whenever a negative event occurs, people feel helpless and lonely. This also leads to depression.On the other hand, some people are prone to depression because of their habitual life style of explaining life events. Different types of explanations are: internal (blaming yourself) and external (blames something else, never yourself) , stable (tell yourself the problem can be changed) and unstable (tell yourself the problem is only temporary) , global ( problem is way too large to deal with)and specific (problem is small enough to be manageable).According to Aaron Beck (1976), he says that people who are depressed have a negative view of themselves, their experiences, and their future. People have negative self-schemas from negative experiences in early childhood. The biological view of ...
