SOCA01H3 : Illness & Identity
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kl lzz7l l y lzzl . Karen: student of karp who used to suffer from illness. N 11th grade her idea shifts: she feels that something is wrong specifically with herself: yl. Karp interviews people of all ages and backgrounds who have experiences with clinical depression (also experienced it himself) 9 moving perspective in which the person sees his life as a whole and interprets the meanings of his various actions, and things which happen to him. Four turning points experienced by the clinically depressed: a period of inchoate feelings during which they lack the vocabulary to define their experience as depression. N aware of unexplainable differences between how they feel and how others feel. Longest phase for most: the period during which they conclude that something is wrong with me. N they move from having vague inchoate feelings to having a clearer sense of something being wrong.
