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Oedipus 'Case Study Everette: Major Depression'

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Case Study #2: Everette: Major Depression Chapter 5: Everette: Major Depression: In this case study Everette discuses what it is like to have depression, he describes having depression as having no hope and you feel alone, no hope in the future. He talks about how you feel that everything is dissolving, your relationships are dissolving. He discusses when he was diagnosed and it wasn’t until age 48, and how it was for him. He talks about college and how hard it was for him and when he was teaching, how he thought he didn’t deserve life. He begins to describe how he felt he was the world’s worst principle and that he felt worthless; he talks about how depression has affected his life and others around him. I think it was very shocking and

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