Enhancing Hopeful Resilience Regarding Depression and Anxiety with a Narrative Method of Ordering Memory Effective in Researchers Experiencing Burnout

Abstract

Depression and anxiety are prevalent, persistent, and difficult to treat industrialized world mental health problems that negatively modify an individual’s life perspective through brain function imbalances—notably, in the amygdala and hippocampus. Primarily treated with pharmaceuticals and psychotherapy, the number of individuals affected plus the intensity of their suffering continues to rise post-COVID-19. Decreasing depression and anxiety is a major societal objective. An approach is investigated that considers depression and anxiety consequences of the particular method people adopt in ordering their memories. It focuses on narrative development and the acceptance of different perspectives as uniquely necessary in creating safe protection from research burnout. The method encourages thoughtful reconsideration by participants of the negative assessments of their circumstances that can lead to depression and anxiety. The aim is to determine if the method of ordering developed is helpful in reducing burnout. This is considered through inspecting and comparing group members’ feedback form results, both pre- and post-COVID-19 restrictions. The method found useful to participants in reducing research burnout through developing hopeful resilience is comparable to authentic leadership. The conclusions offered encourage psychological and neurological research with respect to this method of promoting hopeful resilience for burnout to diminish depression and anxiety.

Hope and resilience among patients affected by unipolar and bipolar depression

“…This may reflect the evidence that resilience moderates the relationship between severity of depressive episodes in bipolar disorder and subjective well-being, including the feeling of hope/hopelessness (Echezarraga et al, 2022). Consistently, the hope and resilience scores have shown a positive correlation between each other, as converging factors in the framework of recovery and well-being (Duggal et al, 2016;Nash, 2022). Interestingly, resilience was lower when patients reported higher psychopathology, depressive and anxiety symptoms as well as higher suicidality: this may confirm that resilience is diminished where severity of illness is higher leading to higher levels of vulnerability and poor coping strategies (Duggal et al, 2016;Favale et al, 2020;Nash, 2022).…”

“…Kaleta and Mróz (2020) reported that hope has a direct impact on depressive symptoms among 77 patients psychotherapy patients but also that forgiveness may have a mediating role among the two factors. Thus, a ‘Hopeful Resilience’ is recommended in the context of psychosocial interventions for patients affected by mood and neurosurgical disorders in general (Duggal et al, 2016; Nash, 2022). Previously, Favale et al (2020) explored the relationship between hope, resilience and depressive symptoms, including suicidal ideation among patients affected by a current major depressive episode: they found an inverse correlation between higher levels of hope and resilience (as assessed with specific ratings) and lower severity of depression as well as and higher levels of resilience were associated with lower level of suicidal ideation.…”

Interaction of Depressive Status and Cognitive Ability Predicts Psychological Resilience of Young Adults in Taiwan

“…Finally, the constructs we choose in the current study (cognitive ability, depressive symptoms and psychological resilience) can be differentiated into different categories. For example, cognitive ability can be grouped into distinct cognitive components (such as attention, memory, and executive function) 49 or non-inclusive categories (such as rational evaluation or irrational rumination of information) 50 ; depressive symptoms can be caused by different situations, such as those related to failing to achieve someone else's goals or failing to achieve one's own de ned goals 3 ; resilience can either be hopeful or not 51 . Whether psychological resilience holds promise depends on how individuals interpret the threats they encounter.…”

The Role of the Hippocampus Concerning Personal Narrative Construction and Mental Health Signifying Positive Health Outcomes Through a Narrative Development Process

“…The facilitator poses each of the prompts on the private Facebook group set up for the interaction between the participant and facilitator. Why the private Facebook group was chosen over other online platforms has been noted elsewhere in relation to the previous HeNReG [16,[74][75][76][77]. These reasons were further reinforced once the group became a one-on-one process.…”

“…Nevertheless, the mechanisms underlying the formation and management of the memory traces are still poorly understood [13]. At the same time, it has been recognized that improving the mental health of individuals is effectively (though not easily) accomplished through focusing on enhancing personal narrative development [14][15][16][17]. As such, the second aim is to present a narrative research process founded and offered by the author specifically intended for health researchers experiencing burnout as an example of a method that has been found useful in enhancing personal narrative development in its demonstrated success regarding positive mental health outcomes in well-defined conditions.…”