Cognitive Behavior

Question:

Discuss about your position (Cognitive-Behavioral) and arguments for the causes of depression, counter arguments to your position and arguments, and rebuttals to those counter(Biological factors) arguments. The paper will finish with a conclusion on the strength of your position.(Cognitive-Behavioral)?

Answer:

Introduction:

Depression is a kind of medical illness that affects negatively what we feel, the way we think, how we act, etc. It is basically a feeling of sadness or can be described as a loss of interest in a particular activity. A long term illness or a long term success may also lead a person towards depression. Major depression can even plague the person for months and years (Al-qudah and Al Bataineh, 2015). A number of reasons are responsible for its occurrence. It is usually results due to combination of longer events and personal factors rather than the immediate event. The longer or repeated occurrence of unwanted incidents may cause of depression. Health disorders, Age factor, social and economic factor and even genetic issues may cause to depression. Whatever may be the factor, it is basically categorized as Cognitive behavioral and biological (Culliney, 2014).

The study reveals that biological factors are the main cause for the onset, development and repeated occurrence of the disorder. The biological study believes in BIG B i.e. Biochemistry, infections, genetics and brain damage (Feldman, 2010). However, the cognitive behavioral is based upon the classical conditioning and the social learning theory. This is also the fact that the every second person who comes in touch with the stress doesn’t get depressed. Biological factors also play a role in the occurrence of depression (Gorenstein, 2007). The people who have the blend of particular genes may be a victim of the depressions. However, this is also true that there is a difference between children of the same parents. The arguments between the cognitive behavioral and biological are based upon the study of operant conditions, Schemas and Changes in the brain (Gottlieb, 2009).

Changes in the Brain:

It is generally said that the depression is due to the biological issue that is the unbalanced chemicals in the brain. Research throws light on the fact that it is not a simple question of one chemical is low or one is on higher side. It is due to the faulty regulation of the mood by the brain, the life events that are quite stressful and unwanted. With the complexity level, we can see the two people who are having same symptoms of depression but they have their own different approaches (Mehanna, 2014). This way this is crystal clear that the cognitive behavioral is the major risk to the depression in a person’s life instead of biological constraints (Proverbio and Zani, 2005). A Certain area of the brain regulates the mood of a person. It is equally true that emotions of a person reside in its heart. The cognitive behavioral approach is the cause of the depressions as human’s life chases the emotions. Moreover, the emotions of a person decide the mood of an individual. The changes in the mood of a person only happen according to the circumstance around him (RABBITT, 2005).

Operant conditions:

It states that the removal of the positive factors from the environment cause for the depression. Such as the personal factors in a person’s life may be the root cause for the depression (REN, SHI and ZHANG, 2012). Losing of jobs, loved ones are the example for the same. Apart form this some people do have tendency to worry a lot, they need perfection, they are sensitive to personal criticism or they may be self critics or negative. . For an example a poor self concept is considered as a risk for the depression.

A person with poor feeling may feel that he is good for nothing, nobody likes him, and he doesn’t have any significance in the other’s life.  This may compel the person to think that he doesn’t deserve happiness in his life. This is how it works. This is the cognitive behavioral aspect that may cause to the depression. Biological believes that all this is genetic (Thieme and Turk, 2012). The truth is that these all events are the common approach of a man. Again the member of a same house may have a different approach of thinking. Biological concept also treats the infection and brain damage as a reason for the depressions. The drug and Alcohol use are also a risk for the depression. A no of people aside from depression also have drug and alcohol problems (Thieme, Turk and Flor, 2007).

Schemas:

Schema is the way how we understand the world around us? How we take the things positively or negatively those are happening around us? The cognitive theories assumes the people attribution for the incidents, their beliefs in themselves, their self efficacy, the influence of the society on them, their emotions, their behavior, when dealing with a particular situation (Arzenšek, 2011). The reaction of a particular may vary with the situation, according to his behavior. Passivity is also a part of the depression. If a person is optimistic he may get all what he wants, but if he is pessimistic, he may get depressed due to the small losses he gets in his life. It is just only due to the behavior. Biological theory approaches that the reaction to a situation depends upon the mood of a person that again derives from his brain (Bracher, 2012). The fact is that the negative view of self, the negative view of the world, the negative view of the future, the helpless feeling is only due to the behavioral approach.

Conclusion:

 The fact is that the many people who found chemical imbalance or harmonically imbalance do not become the victim of depression. This leads to the fact that the depression is an origin of the cognitive behavioral approach of a person (Bundgaard, 2007). What he thinks, what he does, how he tackles his hurdles, how he treats them? What supports further that as we discussed above that if it is genetic or something like that then why each and every person who is facing the chemical misbalancing is not a victim of the depression. In addition, if the depressed persons are treated through the brain chemical transmitter, then why every patient feels fine? (Al-Rubaye, Al-Dulaimi and Cosmas, 2011) However the facts that the personal factor of a person, the background of the family, the life events are the reason of depression. Research suggests that continuous hurdles-stress at work, family problems, stressful life, family history increase the probability for depression.

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