Kool, Marit et al. “Exploring Differences in Quality of Life in Clinical Populations of Depressed Outpatients with And Without Personality Disorders” Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 282, 7 January 2021, pp. 1125-1131.

In this journal article eight mental health psychologist from the university of Amsterdam talk about the differences in the quality of life in those who suffer from depression and personality disorders than those who don’t. personality disorders, mood disorders and depression tend to co-exist. That the thing about mental disorders it’s never just one thing it’s a little bit of something here and there to ultimately create a disorder. Patients with depression have reported to have an extremely low quality of life compared to those who don’t suffer from depression as well as those who suffer from personality disorders. this article will be very helpful to me for my final paper because it gives statistical evidence that a disorder as common as depression has a lower quality of life than a rare personality disorder. that means that more and more peoples quality of life is decreasing as their depression gets worse.

– “Patients in the depression-only group reported a lower quality of life compared to patients who suffered from comorbid diagnoses of depression and [personality disorders]. When subdividing the comorbid group, this difference was statistically significant for the depression + [personality disorders] group, but not for the [personality disorder] + depression group” (Kool et al. 1129)

– “Both depressive disorders and [personality disorders] are highly invalidating conditions that affect the quality of life of patients” (Kool et al. 1125)