Tiers of Depression
Level Four - Normal life ups and downs, the blues. You did not get the promotion. You had a word fight with a loved one. You do not have all the money you want and cannot do all the things you want to do. Most people live with these kinds of experiences without being overly impressed by their conditions. These are down for moments but keep up their relationships, routines, and responsibilities.
Level Three - Loss of something or someone significant prompts a grieving of personal loss. There is the perception of a deeper level hurt that will require an extended amount of time to work through. Pain may be residual but not debilitating until it is gradually assimilated and managed. These are down for moments but keep up their relationships, routines, and responsibilities.
Level Two - Chronic sadness and deeper feelings of little value leading to withdrawal from relationships, routines, and responsibilities. Therapy and the consideration of pharmaceutical intervention can prove to be effective short term treatment responses.
LEVEL ONE - Total shutdown of engagement of relationships, routines and responsibilities. Organic brain chemistry may reveal deficits exacerbating the perception of existing depressing conditions. No hope seems available at this level. Intense intervention is required through inpatient treatment to stabilize condition. Trial of medication to determine which are more effective can take 90 days to work out. Therapy and case management may be necessary to restore to appropriate level of function.
Mark 5 vss 25 - 34 25 A woman was there who had been bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a lot under the care of many doctors, and had spent everything she had without getting any better. In fact, she had gotten worse. 27 Because she had heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothes. 28 She was thinking, If I can just touch his clothes, I’ll be healed. 29 Her bleeding stopped immediately, and she sensed in her body that her illness had been healed.
30 At that very moment, Jesus recognized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 His disciples said to him, “Don’t you see the crowd pressing against you? Yet you ask, ‘Who touched me?’” 32 But Jesus looked around carefully to see who had done it.
33 The woman, full of fear and trembling, came forward. Knowing what had happened to her, she fell down in front of Jesus and told him the whole truth. 34 He responded, “Daughter, your faith has healed you; go in peace, healed from your disease.”
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