Major Depressive Disorder
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
A mood disorder characterized by persistent depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure, lasting at least two weeks and causing significant impairment in daily functioning.
What is OCD?
A mental health disorder characterized by intrusive, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors or mental acts (compulsions) performed to reduce anxiety.
A disorder involving anxiety and ritualized behavior.
What is Schizphrenia?
A chronic psychiatric disorder characterized by hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and impaired functioning.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar I disorder:
A mood disorder defined by at least one full manic episode, often with depressive episodes, causing significant impairment or hospitalization.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
Psychotic symptoms (like hallucinations, delusions, or disorganized thinking) and significant mood episodes (depression or mania) during the same illness, with psychotic symptoms lasting at least 2 weeks without mood symptoms.
What is anhedonia?
Loss of pleasure in activities once enjoyed.
Recurrent intrusive thoughts that cause distress.
What are obsessions?
What are delusions?
Fixed false beliefs not based in reality.
What is Bipolar II disorder?
At least one hypomanic episode and at least one major depressive episode, without ever having a full manic episode.
hypomania + depression, but no full mania.
What is psychosis?
Hallucinations or delusions occurring without mood symptoms.
What is a depressive symptom?
Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt.
Repetitive behaviors performed to reduce anxiety.
What are compulsions?
Hearing voices or sounds others do not hear.
What are auditory hallucinations?
What is a manic symptom?
pressured speech, decreased need for sleep without feeling tired, inflated self-esteem or grandiosity.
The major difference between schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia is?
Schizoaffective disorder: Psychotic symptoms occur alongside significant mood episodes (depression or mania), and mood symptoms are a prominent part of the illness.
Schizophrenia: Psychotic symptoms (hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking) occur without major mood episodes, or any mood symptoms are brief and not central to the diagnosis.
schizoaffective = schizophrenia plus prominent mood disorder.
Feeling tired or drained most days, even after rest. What is this called?
What is fatigue?
Therapy that involves resisting compulsions.
What is exposure and response prevention (ERP)?
Difficulty initiating or completing tasks. Struggle to get out of bed.
What is avolition - seen in depression and psychotic disorders
What are manic behaviors?
Risky behaviors such as overspending or reckless driving, hyper sexuality
Schizoaffective disorder is classified into these two types depending on mood symptoms.
What are bipolar type and depressive type?
Difficulty focusing, remembering, or making decisions.
What is impaired concentration?
A disorder involving anxiety and ritualized behavior. Complete name:
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Symptoms of schizophrenia must persist for at least this long to meet diagnostic criteria.
What is six months?
What is euthymia?
Periods between episodes with relatively normal mood.
Psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, or disorganized speech must be present for at least this long without mood symptoms to meet schizoaffective criteria.
What is 2 weeks