Out of the Valley of Life--A Self-narrative Study of a Depressive Patient's Healing Course

碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學系碩士班 === 104 ===   This study aimed to render the whole process from the researcher suffer from depression to healing. Through self-disclosure, the researcher re-experiences the psychological impact, pain and difficulties of life during the last depression. And perceive the recove...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chi-Yun Kao, 高啟雲
Other Authors: Chun-Yu Liao
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9kfr5r
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Summary:碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學系碩士班 === 104 ===   This study aimed to render the whole process from the researcher suffer from depression to healing. Through self-disclosure, the researcher re-experiences the psychological impact, pain and difficulties of life during the last depression. And perceive the recovery journey from him. In this study, the researcher also intended to narrate how life out of the valley, to remove concrete experience depression.   In this study, a qualitative study of self-narrative way, using longitudinal time series narrative; the researcher's own is the object of this study, the researcher described the case in April 2013 thesis Institute for IRB (Institutional Review Board) committee due to human trials bottlenecks, and competent job title cut review, ignited the fuse melancholy, leading to suffering from mild depression. During suffering, a significant loss of heart and irrational emotions, frustration, the role of the victim, suffer internal situation. This study presents a concrete focus on healing experience, starting from the risk of depression, after a self-aware, active medical treatment, accompanied by family members, dietary modification, exercise detoxification, spiritual liberation, psychological relieving, mindfulness realized, the researcher eventually lucky enough to get healing, life on track.   The motivation of the study: (a) Narrative and experience through self-review, let the healing journey is more clear and transparent; let the meaning of life is more self-understanding and apparent. (b) The depth of self-disclosure by the narrative, the researcher expects the healing experience to provide academic or medical units as well as other depression patients and their families, relatives and friends as reference information to enabling the understanding of depression can vary aid benefits.   The results of this study are summarized as follows: 1. The depression is not fearful. Learning to accept depression is the biggest turning point of healing. 2. The incidence of depression has its own meaning, the more resistance to exclusion, the more trouble. 3. Self-awareness is the key mechanism. An early stage of healing is a more significant effect. 4. Does not exclude the recipient of the assistance of professional doctors. Let mind stability is the best way to healing.