The experience of depression is diverse based on social locations and context. A sociological perspective building on masculinity, illness work, and the self provides a useful theoretical framework to understand how older men negotiate emotional suffering. This article examines older men's accounts of their depression experience from a social constructionist approach. This analysis is based on ...

OBJECTIVE GPs in out-of-hours care report that they feel at risk of rude or aggressive patient behaviour. We tried to get information about the incidence, types and patient characteristics of rude or aggressive behaviour. METHODS Retrospective, observational study involving the analysis of medical records of all patients who contacted a Dutch GP cooperative between June 2001 and June 2002. ...

Emotional disorders and mental illnesses constitute a significant part of diseases. In Chinese medicine, emotional disorders and mental illnesses are classified as emotion-will (Qing Zhi) disorders. Emotion-will, i.e. seven emotions (Qi Qing: happiness, anger, anxiety, pensiveness, sorrow, fear, and fright) and five wills (Wu Zhi: happiness, anger, thinking, sorrow, and fear), play a basic role...

Registrar-Secretary \ Dr. R. N. Shukla, m.b., b.s. 1. The following resolution, moved from the Chair, was passed all standing : 'This Council places on record its deep sense of sorrow on the dastardly assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Indian Nation and the maker of bloodless revolution, and conveys its heartfelt condolence and sympathy to the bereaved family.' 2. The minutes of...

T he effect of mental activity on the cardiovascular system has been well known since ancient times. Hippocrates had already observed that “... fear, intimidation, sorrow, anger ...” may lead to palpitations. In his initial report on a “disorder of the breast” William Heberden mentions a “disturbance of the mind” among other incidents triggering angina pectoris attacks. Recent data provide evid...

This paper analysis the feature of the time amplitude pitch and formant construction involved such four emotions as happiness anger surprise and sorrow. Through comparison with non-emotional speech signal, we sum up the distribution law of emotional feature including different emotional speech. Nine emotional features were extracted from emotional speech for recognizing emotion. We introduce th...

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A single case study approach was used to examine the maternal experience of chronic sorrow in caring for an adolescent with a progressive neurodegenerative condition. A family systems model was used to examine maternal coping and adaptation. A diagnosis of a childhood neurodegenerative illness will inevitably result in periods of deterioration, increased physical, financial and health care need...