Isolation, feeling 'stuck' and loss of control: understanding persistence of depression in British Pakistani women

Journal of Affective Disorders
Linda GaskW Waheed

Abstract

Persistent depression is more commonly experienced by British Pakistani women. The processes by which this results in an experience of chronic depression are not well understood. Qualitative thematic analysis of 15 in-depth interviews with British Pakistani women being treated for depression in primary care, collected in the process of a larger three-centre research project to explore experience of depression and its treatment (the QUEST-D study) in England. Three key overlapping themes emerged: a) 'feeling stuck'--for many of the women, the persistence of depression was experienced as inescapable because it was related to family conflict that seemed impossible to resolve; b) 'isolation'--which might be externally determined by social and cultural factors but also in some cases appeared to be self-imposed; c) 'control'--issues related to loss of a sense of control in depression, and attempts to regain it. The study was carried out in only one area of the United Kingdom, East Lancashire. It formed part of a larger study to explore views of treatment, and there were therefore limited opportunities for further development of some of the themes that have subsequently emerged in this secondary analysis of the data. Psychological the...Continue Reading

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