Signs and Symptoms
Person who is depressed may have a constant feeling of
What is feeling sad, hopelessness or sense of guilt?
Depression can affect these major organs of the body
What is the brain and heart?
Focuses on how a person thinks about self, others and how they interrupt their experiences
What is cognitive therapy?
Involved two or more weeks of sad mood of lack of interest in activities and four other symptoms
What is major depressive disorder?
Self report rating inventory that measures characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression
What is Beck Depression Inventory?
This symptoms occurs when you lose interest or pleasures in activities
What is anhedonia?
Depression can cause an increase in mortality, you may die how many years earlier
What is 25 years?
Best result of symptom remission, psychosocial retardation and prevention of relapse
What is combination of psychotherapy and medication?
Symptoms of insomnia, weight loss, poor appetite
What is spring onset of season affective disorder?
People who have a deficit in this neurotransmitter
What is serotonin?
This symptoms occurs when too little or too much sleep happens
What is insomnia or hypersomnia?
Depression can affect what aspect of life
What is physical, pregnancy and social?
Involves the application of electrodes to the head to deliver electrical impulse to the brain
What is elcetrocunvulsive therapy?
Chronic, persistent mood disturbances characterized by symptoms of depression but are milder
What is dysthymic disorder?
Prejudicial attitudes and discriminating behaviors towards individuals with mental health disorders as result of their label they have been given
What is social stigma of mental health?
Physical symptoms you may see in a depressed person are
What is changes in appetite, lack of energy/increased fatigue, stomachaches, backaches, headaches, indigestion?
Babies who are born to depressed mother's also have
What is increase irritability, less activity, less attentiveness, and fewer facial expressions?
Increase positive reinforcement interactions with environment and to decrease negative interaction and helps in social skills
What is behavioral therapy?
Symptoms of increase sleep, appetite carb craving, weight gain, interpersonal conflict, irritability, and heaviness
What is winter/fall onset of season affective disorder?
30 minutes of exercise 5 days a week, eating a healthy diet, reducing or eliminating alcohol or drugs
What is preventive care for depression?
Physiological complaints of depression include
What is difficulty thinking, concentrating, and making decisions. social withdraw;, though of suicide or death?
Social effects depression include
What is substance and alcohol use and abuse, social and family withdrawal and decreased performance at work or school?
Anxiety, insomnia, weight gain, sexual dysfunction, sweating, headache
What is adverse effects of SSRI'S?
Characterized by episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows and manic highs
What is bipolar depression?
Family history of depression, drug and alcohol use, divorce, loss of a loved one, retirement
What is risk factors for depression?