Depression
A depressive disorder is not a passing blue mood, but rather persistent feelings of sadness and worthlessness and a lack of desire to engage in formerly pleasurable activities. A complex mind/body illness.
What is depression?
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
What is Anxiety?
A chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may seem like they have lost touch with reality. Although schizophrenia is not as common as other mental disorders, the symptoms can be very disabling.
What is Schizophrenia?
Manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
A chronic mental health condition characterized primarily by symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations or delusions, and symptoms of a mood disorder, such as mania and depression.
What is Schizoaffective disorder?
Over sleeping, change in appetite, isolation and crying spells.
What are symptoms of depression?
Feelings of panic, fear, and uneasiness. Problems sleeping. Cold or sweaty hands or feet. Shortness of breath.
What are symptoms of anxiety?
Usually start between ages 16 and 30. In rare cases, children have schizophrenia too.
What is the typical on-set of Schizophrenia?
People with bipolar disorder experience periods of unusually intense emotion, changes in sleep patterns and activity levels, and unusual behaviors.
What are called “mood episodes?
What are symptoms of Schizoaffective Disorder?
Changes in brain chemistry. Research tells us that other factors contribute to the onset of depression, including genetics, changes in hormone levels, certain medical conditions, stress, grief or difficult life circumstances.
What causes depression?
Stress at work, school, personal relationships. Financial stress. Stress from an emotional trauma such as the death of a loved one. Stress from a serious medical illness.
What causes anxiety?
A person with schizophrenia may have trouble telling this from this.
What is real and not real?
Bipolar disorder can be present even when mood swings are less extreme.
What is hypomania, a less severe form of mania?
What is a combination of causes may contribute to the development of schizoaffective disorder?
A drug used to alleviate depression.
What is an antidepressant?
Self care medication therapy and specialists.
What are treatments for anxiety?
Genes and environment, Different brain chemistry and structure.
What are factors that contribute to the risk of developing schizophrenia.
This is the most extreme form of Bi-Polar. Some people experience changes in polarity from high to lw or vice-versa within a single week, or even within a single day.
What is Rapid-cycling Bipolar Disorder?
Medication and therapy. Co-occurring substance use disorders are a serious risk and require integrated treatment.
What are ways to manage Schizoaffective disorder effectively.
Hormones manufactured deep in the brain automatically trigger attitudinal changes at certain times of the year. Experts believe that this form of depression is related to hormonal changes.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
An anxiety disorder in which a person has an excessive and unreasonable fear of social situations. Anxiety (intense nervousness) and self-consciousness arise from a fear of being closely watched, judged, and criticized by others.
What is social anxiety?
Positive symptoms: “Positive” symptoms are psychotic behaviors not generally seen in healthy people. People with positive symptoms may “lose touch” with some aspects of reality.
Negative symptoms: “Negative” symptoms are associated with disruptions to normal emotions and behaviors.
Cognitive symptoms: For some patients, the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are subtle, but for others, they are more severe and patients may notice changes in their memory or other aspects of thinking.
What are symptoms of schizophrenia? fall into three categories: positive, negative, and cognitive.
People with bipolar disorder experience periods of unusually intense emotion, changes in sleep patterns and activity levels, and unusual behaviors
What are called Mood Episodes?
What are two major types of schizoaffective disorder: bipolar type and depressive type