Dysthymia

http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=130822&picture=dve-tvare-masky Understanding Bipolar disorder – Signs and symptoms Bipolar is a serious medical condition where you will experience unusual ups and downs. The unusual mood swings and fluctuation in energy levels will not allow you to perform the daily activities. If diagnosed with bipolar, you will find very difficult to cope with life, it becomes really tough to manage relationships, job, and day to day tasks. The good…

Major depressive disorder also known as clinical depression is a mood disorder involving sadness, feelings of worthlessness, loss of interest in someone’s usual activities and changes in one’s activities such as sleep and appetite that persist over a period of at least two weeks. (Textbook) To be diagnosed with depression a person must have at least four other symptoms of depression and these symptoms should be severe enough that they interfere with a person’s day to day life and prevent them…

Adjustment Disorder: One Common Psychological Disorder There are times when something can disrupt your life in all ways, quite obvious to experience uncomfortable and distressing feelings. Such feeling is so intense that an individual is going through all these feels like cracking up and will never get back to normal life. The common feeling that a person goes through during these time is either depression or anxiety; often it can be both. In most of these cases, both health and behavior of that…

QP engaged My-Kayla in participating in a CBT activity geared towards depression. QP explained to My-Kayla that the activity teach her antidepressant skills she can use to manage depression. QP asked MY-Kayla, if she is depressed. QP explained to My-Kayla what depression is? QP asked My-Kayla to give some examples of things a person may feel depressed about. QP brainstormed with My-Kayla symptoms of depression. QP discussed with My-Kyla, what mild and major depression are and provided examples…

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a syndrome characterized by symptoms of sadness and anhedonia that last for at least two weeks (APA, 2013). Many people with depression are quite distressed by their symptoms but are nonetheless able to function in daily activities. Others may be impaired to the extent that they are unable to carry out even the simplest tasks of daily living. In some cases, depression is so severe that those afflicted by it kill themselves. Depression is one of the most…

During a crisis event, the biggest difference in Acute Stress Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is that the ASD is the stress that happens here and now. The disorders can function in two completely different ways but may have the same symptoms. In ASD, one of the difference is that you are diagnosis with ASD within the first month from the traumatic experience. If the symptoms of the traumatic event were to continue beyond that month, the psychotherapist would then assess that the…

Major depression disorder otherwise known as clinical depression, is a major medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. People with clinical depression are not able to function as they used to. Often, they lose interest in activities that were once enjoyable to them and feel sad and hopeless for long periods of time. Clinical depression is not the same as feeling sad or depressed for a few days and then feeling better. It can affect your body, mood,…

In October 2010, Disney Channel celebrity Demi Lovato checked herself into rehab suffering depression, bulimia, and self-harm. January of the following year, she made a public announcement explaining that she had been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, also known as Manic-Depressive Illness. Many mental illnesses are caused by the genetic predisposition to develop based on a family member having one and passing it on. In most cases such as Schizophrenia, Anorexia, Bulimia, and Bipolar Disorder, it…

The diagnostic criteria for cyclothymic disorder fits the case study of Rachel a fifteen year old girl. From the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th Edition (American Psychiatric Association, 2013 ), cyclothymic disorder can be described as: “The essential feature of cyclothymic disorder is a chronic, fluctuating mood disturbance involving numerous periods of hypomanic symptoms and periods of depressive symptoms that are distinct from each other.” Cyclothymic disorder is…

Though a relationship between melancholy and mania can be traced back to as early as the first century AD, the classification of bipolar disorder was first seen in the 1952 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and was referred to as “manic depressive disorder.” It wasn’t until the third edition was published in 1980 that the manual approached mental illness with a biomedical etiology rather than a psychodynamic one, and that the name of the illness was changed to bipolar…