Author(s)

Carla Araujo Bastos Teixeira¹, Maria Neyrian de Fátima Fernandes^2,3*, Raquel Cocenas da Silva⁴, Kelly Graziani Giacchero Vedana³, Edilaine Cristina da Silva Gherardi-Donato³

¹Medicine Department, CEUMA University, Campus Imperatriz, Imperatriz, Brazil.
³Psychiatric Nursing and Human Sciences Department, College of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
⁴Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters at Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.

This study aimed to elaborate on theoretical model of the perceptions, feelings, and meanings of early stress for people with depression. To perform a qualitative study based on the Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory, we interviewed 12 patients diagnosed with depression. It was structured a model based on “walking between traumatic childhood and the adult life with depression,” integrating eight inter-articulated categories that represent the perceptions, feelings, and meanings of the experiences of the depressed individual with a history of early stress. The theoretical model constructed meanings and conditions that affect the individual from a traumatic childhood to depression in adulthood.

Nursing, Mental Health, Psychological Stress, Child Abuse, Depression

Teixeira, C. , Fernandes, M. , Silva, R. , Vedana, K. and da Silva Gherardi-Donato, E. (2019) Perceptions, Feelings, and Meanings of the Early Stress for the Adult with Depression: A Theoretical Model. Open Journal of Nursing, 9, 1252-1266. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2019.912091.