Depression
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Depression can only be brought on by a tramatic event.
What is False
Depression is not only prevelent in tramatic events. While tramatic events can cause depression, depression can be brought on suddenly/slowly and is a normal part of life. Depression can be acute or chronic.
This type of depression is prevelent in women after delivering a child, but men can also be diagnosed.
What is postpardum depression?
PPD affects women more than men, but 1 in 10 men can de diagnosed during the peripardum period.
These are first line antidepressant medications.
What are SSRI's? (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)
This number can be called in a mental health crisis.
What is 988?
Similar digits to 911 help this number come to memory without having to look it up to save time in a crisis.
Patients must have symptoms for this long in order to be diagnosed with depression.
What is 2 weeks?
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Depression can only be treated with medications
What is False?
Depression can be treated with not only medications, but also wiht therapies. An example of medication is prozac and an example of a therapy is CBT.
This depression last more than 2 years and was previously known as dysthymia.
What is persistant depressive disorder?
This type of depression last more than two years, signs and symptoms include a change in appetite, sleeping too much or too little, fatigue, and feeling hopeless.
This type of therapy treatment has a bad reputation due to past practices, but is helpful in treating depression by sending an electric current through the brain.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy?
This is a type of therapy that allows groups of people to share feelings about their diagnosis, socialize, and lower costs of depression treatment.
What is Group Therapy?
This is a sign of depression, a patient can have fluctuations in this and can be getting too much or not enough.
What is sleep inbalance or disturbed sleep?
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Depression doesn't look the same for everyone.
What is True?
Depression signs and symptoms look different and effect everyone differently. Signs and symptoms in men can include but are not limited to, feeling angry, overating/not eating at all, and thoughts of suicide. S&S in women can include but are not limited to, fatigue, feeling guilty, and thoughts of suicide.
This type of depression is a period of major depression that typically occurs in the winter months as days get shorter.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Treatments include light therapy and antidepressant medications.
This type of depression treatment was originally used to treat epilepsy. Electric stimulation of this nerve is thought to boost levels of neurotransmitters to improve mood and enhace actions of antidepressants.
What is Vagus Nerve Stimulation?
This type of therapy is individual and can be in person or online.
What is individual therapy?
Many doctors offices can refer patients to a therapists. Websites like "BetterHelp" can set you up with someone online and save time.
What is suicial thoughts?
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Depression can be genetic.
What is true?
Research points to 50% of depression being genetic. If a close family member has depression, it doesnt automatically mean you will get it, but your changes are increased.
This type of depression is relativly new for diagnosing, and is a cluster of symptoms that occur the last week before the start of the menstrual cycle. These symptoms can interfere with the ability to work/interact with others.
What is Premenstual Dysphoric Disorder?
Symptoms include mood swings, irritablilty, depression, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, etc.
This type of NMDA that is used off-lable for acute sucidiality. It can also be used to treat treatment resistant depression.
What is Esketamine?
This medicine affects glutame by blocking it from binding to NMDA receptors. It is available in as a nasal spray.
This type of therapy is a first line treatment used to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder.
What is light therapy?
This therapy is believed to be effective on melatonin. Treatments can be 30 to 45 minutes.
What is poor concentration?
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Depression affects 2% of the adult population world wide and mainly men are affected.
What is False?
Depression affects 5% of the adult population world wide. Women are more affected by depression.
This type of depression was introduced back in 2013 after a lot of children were being diagnosed with bipolar disorder when most of their symptoms did not continue into adult hood.
What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?
This was commonly mistaken for bipolar disorder, but bipolar medications were not helping these children. Symptoms of DMDD are constant sereve anger and irritablilty.
This type of "treatment" increases the availavbility of seretonin in the brain. It has been shown to dampen the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocorticoid axis, which is beleived to be hyperactive during depression.
What is Exercise?
This number can be called to help find support groups and treatments close to you.
What is Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)?
National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357
This is a symptom of depression where a patient is eating too much or not enough. The patient can also lose or gain weight from this symptom.
What is a change in appeitite?