Clinical Characteristics of depression
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- Created on: 05-04-15 12:14
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- Clinical Characteristics of depression
- becomes an illness when it has to be treated
- Persisting low mood
- impacting on functionality
- Persisting low mood
- Physical/behavioural symptoms
- Appetite is usually reduced
- but can increased (comfort eating) and tends to be unhealthy
- Sleep disturbances occur
- insomnia tends to be most common with problems in falling asleep and early morning waking
- But hypersomnia can also occur
- this is excessive sleeping and may be an attempt to escape reality
- Sleep disturbances results in tiredness and feelings of lethargy or restlessness
- this is excessive sleeping and may be an attempt to escape reality
- But hypersomnia can also occur
- insomnia tends to be most common with problems in falling asleep and early morning waking
- Sex drive is usually reduced
- Appetite is usually reduced
- Perceptual symptoms
- auditory hallucinations may occur
- psychotic
- Which are extreme forms of self-critical delusions as the hallucinations often involve voices that are abusive and critical of the depressive
- auditory hallucinations may occur
- Cognitive symptoms
- Depressives may have slow, muddled thinking
- And difficulty in making decisions
- may be causal in some reactive depressives
- Pessimistic, negative, and in severe cases suicidal thinking may occur
- A negative self concept can lead to faulty thinking
- when the individual is overly critical of him- or herself this can develop into delusions
- Beck's cog. trias
- A negative self concept can lead to faulty thinking
- And difficulty in making decisions
- Depressives may have slow, muddled thinking
- Motivational symptoms
- Depressives show a lack of interest (apathy) in their appearance, work, home and others
- There is also reduced activity due to their lack of interest and energy
- Adaptive? x-ref SAD
- There is also reduced activity due to their lack of interest and energy
- Depressives show a lack of interest (apathy) in their appearance, work, home and others
- Social symptoms
- Depressives usually show social withdrawal because they do not gain pleasure from social interaction
- May feel they have nothing to contribute and do not want people to see them in their depressive state
- Depressives usually show social withdrawal because they do not gain pleasure from social interaction
- Emotional/mood symptoms
- Anhedonia refers to a loss of pleasure in activities previously enjoyed
- related to social withdrawal
- Diurnal moos variations may occur, in which the mood changes throughout the day being particularly low on a morning and improving a little as the day progresses
- x-ref biorhythms
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- Anhedonia refers to a loss of pleasure in activities previously enjoyed
- becomes an illness when it has to be treated
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