Review the case study of Josie. You’ll create an ecomap based on Josie’s case, so read carefully.
1
Josie, 29 years old, recently got back from her first deployment. I heard once that Winston Churchill called his depression “The Black Dog”.
2
It’s more like a heavy black cloud that settles all around you. It feels like a lead weight on your shoulders and you can’t see through it. All you can see is blackness. I didn’tt know what it was until a few months ago.
When I was 23, I was working in a dead-end job and one day my boyfriend of two years walked out on me. No explanation, just up and left. It devastated me. For the week after that I barely got out of bed, I just couldn’t find the energy or the motivation to get up or do anything.
Luckily, I had some good friends who looked after me and got me back on my feet.
3
I left my job, joined the army, and things really looked up for a while. But after I got back from the Middle East about six months ago,I started feeling horribly depressed. I don’t even know why – the deployment wasn’t difficult. I wasn’t really in danger and I didn’t see anything too awful or upsetting, but the adjustment coming home was harder than. I expected.
I just felt worse and worse, and all the things I used to enjoys seemed stupid and pointless.I couldn’t be bothered doing anything, not even eating. I didn’t have any energy but I couldn’t sleep either. I managed to talk the doctor on the base into giving me a few weeks off sick, but that didn’t do any good. I just stayed in bed and cried.
Once, I even thought about killing myself, but, then I thought about what it would do to Mum and Dad.
Review the case study of Josie. You’ll create an ecomap based on Josie’s case, so read carefully.
1
Josie, 29 years old, recently got back from her first deployment. I heard once that Winston Churchill called his depression “The Black Dog”.
2
It’s more like a heavy black cloud that settles all around you. It feels like a lead weight on your shoulders and you can’t see through it. All you can see is blackness. I didn’tt know what it was until a few months ago.
When I was 23, I was working in a dead-end job and one day my boyfriend of two years walked out on me. No explanation, just up and left. It devastated me. For the week after that I barely got out of bed, I just couldn’t find the energy or the motivation to get up or do anything.
Luckily, I had some good friends who looked after me and got me back on my feet.
3
I left my job, joined the army, and things really looked up for a while. But after I got back from the Middle East about six months ago,I started feeling horribly depressed. I don’t even know why – the deployment wasn’t difficult. I wasn’t really in danger and I didn’t see anything too awful or upsetting, but the adjustment coming home was harder than. I expected.
I just felt worse and worse, and all the things I used to enjoys seemed stupid and pointless.I couldn’t be bothered doing anything, not even eating. I didn’t have any energy but I couldn’t sleep either. I managed to talk the doctor on the base into giving me a few weeks off sick, but that didn’t do any good. I just stayed in bed and cried.
Once, I even thought about killing myself, but, then I thought about what it would do to Mum and Dad.
