The Issue of Depression and Its Affect in an Emerging Adulthood

Introduction

As people reach the age of 18, they develop some characteristics and traits that they sometimes would never expect. Depression plays a huge factor on individuals at the age of eighteen through twenty-five, and maybe even sooner than eighteen. Emerging adulthood takes place in an individual's life from adolescence up to becoming a young adult. One of the factors that creep in as we age into adulthood is depression. Depression may affect your goals and aspirations, emotions, and it can make you sluggish. D. Depression in a young adult ruins their train of thought and they can’t truly discover themselveы. In many ways, depression can affect the cognitive, emotional, social, and physical aspect of a young adult.

Cognitive Development Domain

Our mental health mixed with depression messes up our ability to think right and to understand certain situations. The study shows that the stress from the transition of school to college lead to distortions cognitively, and general health among college students. The study explored the relationship between depression and cognitive distortions among college students. 125 undergraduate students (62 male and 63 female) were surveyed and related to the depression and cognitive distortions. Girls were found to be more depressed in high self-criticism compared to boys. Not only is the cognitive aspect affected but the emotional development domain.

Emotional Development Domain

Depression affects our emotions in a bad way and leaves to be emotionally unstable. This study talks about emotions, which are important for every college student and every emerging adult today. Students’ emotions have been neglected by higher education research. Emotions are frequent and often intense in situations at college and university. Positive emotions help open the mind and create goals and challenges. Anxiety and hopelessness are detrimental to a college students study life. Social development is also affected with depression.

Social Development Domain

Once adults and college students become depressed, their social life becomes affected. This study shows that social interactions should make you feel welcomed. The study describes the different outcomes adults receive when they have a dysfunctional social behaviour. Others may experience different outcomes when it comes to socializing. Depressed adults showed preferred sad faces and emotional words. They view social interactions negatively.

The studies provided us with depression and how it sensitizes people to social acceptance and social rejection. As being neglected socially from others, it affects an adult physically.

Physiological Development Domain

Being depressed affects adults physically with your body and it makes you sluggish. You may develop a disorder of not wanting to eat. The study reveals the side effects of being depressed and long-term depression.

The study covers for the social and the physical side of being depressed. It occurs mostly in a change in a person’s life. The study shows that depression can affect the brain and the heart. You may receive blood clots and risk a heart attack. Not only can depression can ruin your internal organs, but it will mess up your physique. Depression may result in you dying 25 years younger than an average person would live up to.

Conclusion

Depression affects a person mentally, emotionally, socially, and physically. Basically everything that an adult needs to take care of since they’re constantly going through transitions in life. An adults mental state by self-criticism affects ourselves poorly, their emotions become twisted, they may feel socially rejected at times, and their physique may not be up to par. Adults need to stop allowing depression take control of their lives and take the wheel.

Once you become depressed and allow it to clog up your mind, you become mentally, emotionally, socially, and physically unstable. Depression will make you think you’re not good enough and you will feed into that.