Patterns of Emotion dysfunction in depression disorder

Patterns of Emotion Dysfunction in Depression Disorder
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Introduction
Description of The Disorder
Depression disorder (major depressive disorder or clinical depression) is a prevalent and a common mental condition that affects many people all over the world. Depression tends to have common emotive patterns that are considered credible symptoms of the disorder. This mental condition has the following symptoms: feeling sad, eating disorders, change of sleeping patterns, low self-esteem or guilty feeling, difficulty in making decisions, thoughts of death and or suicide, disinterest in activities once enjoyed. These symptoms can signal an onset of depression, and they need a professional to positively diagnose the condition. It is a mental illness that negatively affects how an individual feel, thinks and acts. It is commonly characterized by feeling sad and losing interest in activities that an individual once enjoyed. It also encompasses a variety of physical and emotive problems that affect a person’s ability to function, act or think rationally at work or home hence significantly affecting their social life and productivity. Symptoms must last at least two weeks for diagnosis. It is a treatable condition if proper interventions are taken in time.
Prevalence rates of the Disorder
Firstly, on prevalence, women are more likely to experience depression than men CITATION Alb15 \l 1033 (Albert, 2015). Women are likely to experience depression during pregnancy and after birth what is commonly known as baby blues CITATION Har17 \l 1033 (Harvard Medical School, 2017). Depression is also likely to happen in teenage up to mid-20s. According to CITATION Ame17 \l 1033 (American Psychiatry Association, 2017), one person in six people will likely experience depression. In the US alone, it affects 16.1 million adult Americans each year which is 6.7% of the population CITATION Anx \l 1033 (Anxiety and Depression Association of America, n.d.). The median onset age for depression disorder is 32.5 years and, in the US, it is the leading cause of disability for ages 15 - 44.3 yearsCITATION Ste11 \p 19 \l 1033 (Buehler, 2011, p. 19). The US statistics as a developed country are replicated in many other developed countries but Scandinavian who have a lower probability of developing the condition. The condition is higher in developing and undeveloped countries which have a relatively higher prevalence of the condition.
Review of a theoretical model describing the role of emotions in the onset and maintenance of the disorder
While borrowing from various studies, Cisler et al. (2010) table a theoretical model which seeks to describe the role of emotions in the onset as well as during the maintenance of anxiety disorders. The model Cisler and colleagues propose to be borrowing from pieces of previous models including dispositional factors and specific learning pathways. While maintaining consistency with the previous models, Cisler and colleagues seem to indicate that emotion regulation serves in development of anxiety disorders but only during the post-conditioning phases and not in the initial acquisition. Their proposed model appears to be consistent with previous neurobehavioral research which d...