B&b Quiz 4: Mood Disorders

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Depression

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Characterized by feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, and even suicidal thoughts or psychotic symptoms

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Mania

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Inflated self-esteem, less need for sleep, talkativeness, flight of ideas, distractibility; Increased activity or agitation, risk-taking

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Dysthymia

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Low self-esteem and decreased productivity, without the extreme symptoms of MDD such as suicidality

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Hypomania

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Mild symptoms of mania such as increased sexual interest and talkativeness are present for at least a 4-day period.

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Anhedonia

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Absence of pleasure in one's usual activities

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Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)

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Unhappiness, decreased interest and pleasure in one's usual activities and decreased appetite for pleasurable stimuli such as sex and food.

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Bipolar Disorder Type I

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Discrete episodes of both depression and mania

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Bipolar Disorder Type II

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Discrete episodes of both depression and hypomania

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Cyclothymic Disorder

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Discrete episodes of both dysthymia and hypomania

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Mood Disorder Resulting from General Medical Condition

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Mood symptoms in a medically ill patient resulting directly from the illness or its treatment rather than from a primary mood disorder

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Substance-Induced Mood Disorder

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Mood symptoms caused or exacerbated by the use or withdrawal of drugs of use or abuse

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Atypical Depression

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More likely to show weight gain, excessive somnolence, feelings of heaviness in the arms and legs (leaden paralysis) and may also have a craving for carbohydrate-rich food.

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Masked Depression

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Patients are unaware of or deny that they are depressed; instead they report vague physical symptoms and tend to first seek help from primary care doctors

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Seasonal Affective Disorder

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A specifier used with MDD, associated with the winter season and short days. Commonly presents with atypical symptoms, often can be treated effectively with full-spectrum light exposure +/- AD

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Grandiosity

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Feeling of self-importance

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Pressured Speech

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Speech that seems forced and rapid

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Flight of Ideas

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Thoughts move quickly from one to another

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Adjustment Disorder

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Mood symptoms that do not meet the full criteria for a MD episode. Follow within 3 months of a significant psychosocial stressor (but is not better explained by bereavement), and persist for up to 6 months after the stressor has terminated

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Anxiety Disorder

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Anxiety symptoms that are present for an extended period. Interfere with normal functioning and cause significant distress

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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Therapy in which a grand mal seizure is induced by passing an electric current across the brain, a socially maligned, but effective treatment for severe depression