tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27235317.post961166214797213146..comments2023-09-27T07:34:44.314-07:00Comments on Skies: Presentaion of Depression in Iraqsaminkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11618883213770392362noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27235317.post-80569304835719815982012-07-20T10:23:55.854-07:002012-07-20T10:23:55.854-07:00Hi again Ala, the link of the study is this
http:/...Hi again Ala, the link of the study is this<br />http://www.wpanet.org/uploads/Latest_News/Other_News/iraq-mental-health-updated.pdf<br /><br />I was wrong about it. It includes the lifetime prevalence and it is about 7 percent in iraq. I am still working in Iraq although I am now in a family visit outside Iraq. My email is samialbedri@yahoo.com and you are welcome as a friend Ala. Regards. Sami.saminkiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618883213770392362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27235317.post-60525404833113795792012-07-20T09:37:33.076-07:002012-07-20T09:37:33.076-07:00Many many thanks Sami,
Very informative paper.
By...Many many thanks Sami,<br />Very informative paper. <br />By the way, r u still in Iraq?<br />Best RegardsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27235317.post-53815005826326942052012-07-15T03:31:51.853-07:002012-07-15T03:31:51.853-07:00Hi Ala, thank you for your nice encouraging words....Hi Ala, thank you for your nice encouraging words. There was a study in 2007 done by the ministry of health with the aid of WHO about the prevalence of mental illnesses apart from schizophrenia and drug abuse and suicide, as far as I can remember and I remember the cross-sectional prevalence of major depressive disorder to be as low as less than 1 per cent. I am not sure of the figure since I dont have my laptop with me right now. I think you can find the study published in a free journal of psychiatry named WORLD PSYCHIATRY that belongs to the WHO. Regards.saminkiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618883213770392362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27235317.post-76292360111393488822012-07-14T13:40:21.634-07:002012-07-14T13:40:21.634-07:00Hi Sami
Firstly its a great idea to have this nice...Hi Sami<br />Firstly its a great idea to have this nice, well prepared blog.<br />I would like to ask if you have any idea about the prevalence of Depression in Iraq , or still the figure is not available.<br />Many thanksAla Alinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27235317.post-15745407428894316932008-11-28T04:42:00.000-08:002008-11-28T04:42:00.000-08:00Thank you John P. Murtha for your care and nice co...Thank you John P. Murtha for your care and nice comment. samiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27235317.post-58831949052717048042008-10-18T07:42:00.000-07:002008-10-18T07:42:00.000-07:00You have all the right Don Cox, a study in Iraq is...You have all the right Don Cox, a study in Iraq is cross cultural by itself. Thank you for that remark which I may use during my discussion of the thesis. <BR/>The convers of somatization always remembers me of that case of szhiophrenia who presents to the emergency unit complaining of an "Ectopus in my stomach" and was neglected and refereed to the psychiatric ward to inter into a state of shock and found to have rigid abdomen. Investigations reavled perforated deudenal ulcer. <BR/><BR/>Thank you Don Cox for your care and advice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27235317.post-193563738097597912008-10-18T02:52:00.000-07:002008-10-18T02:52:00.000-07:00Very interesting. You mentioned in a previous entr...Very interesting. You mentioned in a previous entry that Iraq is a paella - so even a study done within Iraq will be cross-cultural. ______ Besides "somatisation" there is the interesting case of the converse: stoach ulcers were for a long time thought to be symptoms of psychological problems, and finally turned out to be caused by bacterial infection.Don Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11232752398252841794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27235317.post-40203023231741523982008-10-17T09:41:00.000-07:002008-10-17T09:41:00.000-07:00Dear Margaret, you were up to the point, how could...Dear Margaret, you were up to the point, how could I not mentioned how my study will be croo cultural? Margaret, I will not have a samlpe of non-iraqi patients but I will compare my sample results to the results of other studies done in Korea, Chinese in the US, and US population. I should have said that in the introduction didn't I. <BR/><BR/>In Iraq we have a fixed order of presenting our thesis and that would be:<BR/>summary, intoduction, aims, methods, results, discussion and conclusion, and finally references.<BR/><BR/>Maybe I was waiting the AIMS part to make my AIMS more clear, but thank you for your comment very much Margaret, I think now about making them appear more clear in the inroduction too.<BR/><BR/>Regarding making a diagnosis, I would write that in the method part. But I will tell you here that I am using a structured psychiatric interview based on the DSM IV to diagnose Major Depressive Disorder. I will not make distinction between types of depression, although it seems a good idea and I may end up studying the atypical features in our patients (in my sample there are some patients who have hypersomnia rather than insomnia, for example).<BR/><BR/>Margaret can I use that thing you said about "superego winning" in my discussion? it is the firrst time i heard of that. I will search for other references on it.<BR/><BR/>Your comment will make me work on my introduction dark tunnel again with some light in my hand right now. I will rewrite this post and makes my additions appear in fanit orange color.<BR/><BR/>Thank you very much for your time Margaret I will never forget this favor you done for me.saminkiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618883213770392362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27235317.post-13835355109851011832008-10-16T13:17:00.000-07:002008-10-16T13:17:00.000-07:00OK, Sami, you asked for comments!First, it sounds ...OK, Sami, you asked for comments!<BR/><BR/>First, it sounds like a fascinating subject.<BR/><BR/>Couple of things strike me straightaway :<BR/><BR/>Isn't it the case that if your study is going to be "cross-cultural" that you are going to have to have some comparisons with another culture? You don't mention this in your introduction.<BR/><BR/>I appreciate that you may not have access to patients with depression in another culture, but I get the impression that depression was probably somatised in Europe, too, in earlier times - we don't see many cases of the kind of hysteria that Freud studied. Is it the case that depression in Europe, or North America, for example, has moved inwards (as opposed to having outward manifestations) in the same way as you see it moving in Iraq? If so, what were the trends in Europe that led to that interiorisation of depression - and are they the same now in Iraq?<BR/><BR/>I would have liked you to set out in your introduction what you hope your report to show, so that I could anticipate or bear in mind themes as I am reading on, and so that there is a bit more structure to your writing. As it is, I am not sure how you are going to use your case studies to mount an argument (which is what I presume you are asked to do). I am not sure where you are going ... (easily put right with a few sentences of explanation - as basic as "In this paper I intend to show/investigate (whatever) ..., First by considering ... and thereafter).<BR/><BR/>I also wondered if you were going to make a distinction between situational depression (where a cause can be identified with some certainty) and other depression which has no identifiable cause - or is all depression situational, if only you can uncover the situation that causes it?<BR/><BR/>Is "depression" just a name we, particularly in the West, give to an inability resolve the Id and the Superego, where the Superego is winning? Does that inability present itself differently in different cultures because of factors specific to those cultures? If so, what are the factors in Iraqi culture that determine the presentation of that inability in patients?<BR/><BR/>That last image, painted by a patient, is quite wonderful. <BR/><BR/>I've often wondered whether "vices" are cultural, which is probably why I find your proposed study so interesting. You know, how people say that a certain vice is absent in their country, ... but you kind of imagine that they have another vice that makes up for the absence of the other one. I'm thinking, for example, of the prevalence of alcoholism in the West, and a higher toleration of domestic violence in some other countries, or frightening outbreaks of horrific violence such as in Burundi...<BR/><BR/>I hope your report goes well - I remember very clearly the pain that precedes the breakthrough writing academic contributions. There doesn't seem to be any way to avoid the pain - if you want your work to be good, that is!<BR/><BR/>Good luck! I'd love to read the whole thing one day!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446115372031363526noreply@blogger.com