Exploring the Difficulty of Dysthymia Patients in Doing House Chores Using Cognitive Triad of Depression Theory: A Short Story Entitled “The Shutter Rising"

Abstract

Dysthymia is a mental disease that interferes with a person’s mood. According to Harvard, untreated dysthymia patients will have symptoms like low energy, poor concentration, and hopelessness. In Indonesia, dysthymia is considered very common, but it seems that a number of the society denies the existence of the disease. The denial among society is common, but this ignorance can lead to problems that appear inside an individual’s closest community and even themselves. Also, unlike mentally healthy people, maintaining a state of mind is hard for dysthymia patients. It will give strain and fatigue to them or sometimes to an extreme level. Therefore, the objective of the final project is to provide significant knowledge about the daily life of a dysthymic patient through a short story titled, The Shutter Rising. By using library research to provide data from journals and videos, The Shutter Rising's story will have solid and reality-based support in the story. Likewise, the Cognitive triad by Aaron Beck will be used as the theoretical framework. The Cognitive triad will tell how an individual with depression would usually think. The theory mentions three negative views especially, the self, world, and future (McLeod)