Depression: dealing with the darkness.
OBJECTIVE
A client's personal experience of depression presented in her own words.


METHODS
Case study.


OBJECTIVE
To assist nurses to understand, accept, and reassure depressed clients and "offer themselves" in a caring and continuing relationship.


CONCLUSIONS
Understanding depression allows nurses to respond in a way that is therapeutic.
Jambunathan
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing