title: Depression: dealing with the darkness.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jambunathan
mesh_terms: 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