The Effects of Depression in Social Care

Social care givers have a high rate of 'burnout' and depression. The effects of depression in social care are greater numbers of physicians, social workers, and nurses leaving their profession.

Love and Support

• Community involvement provides relief from depression.

  Health care studies indicate sick people recover, and maintain health quicker when they claim at least one intimate relationship, support group such as church, or close friendships.

Married or Single

• Intimacy is essential to wellness.

  Single people are more likely to be depressed than married couples.

Depression and Care Givers

• Social workers, doctors, nurses and anyone providing care for others needs to experience stress reduction activities, not theory or analysis of self-care.

Cultural Stigma

• Cultural stigma prevents social care givers from receiving treatment. Although the incidence of mental health illness occurs at the same levels for across all races.

Relationship Therapy

• After experiencing a depressive episode in her beginning years as a doctor, Pamela Wible quotes in Sun Magazine "I never thought of myself as practicing alternative medicine until a colleague pointed out that spending time with patients is now "alternative."...When patients come into this office, it's a refuge from the frenetic outside world." She now terms her work as a physician relationship based.