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The six major domains of emotional development happening during the first two years of life include smiling/laughing, anger, sadness, fear, stranger wariness and separation anxiety. Happiness is expressed by the social smile, evoked by a human face around 6 weeks - preterm babies are usually later to smile. Social joy and even laughter is expressd by infants worldwide. laughter is expressed in infants between 2 and 4 months. laughter builds as curiosity does; a typical 6- month old laughs loudly…

Introduction Headaches are pain that is found any region of the head. Nerves, blood vessels and muscles found in the head and neck area are all involved in the causes of headaches; usually over activity of these structures and chemical actions can all be sources of why the condition exists. Primary headaches are symptoms that are not caused by another ailment. They can be categorized into migraines, tension headaches, and cluster headaches. A very common type of head ache is tension headaches…

Sadness is an emotion central to human experience. For most, it is an appropriate and adaptive response to loss, perceived failure, or rejection. It can inform us when something is amiss in our lives that we may need to address. Ideally, it is a transient emotional experience, that fades as circumstances change or evolve. For some individuals, however, sadness persists for weeks , months, or years, invariant to situation or time. Depression is an emotional disorder defined by this…

Involutional Depression • Definition: specifier for major depressive disorder, which presents itself with melancholy • Causes: Genetics and biological factors • Signs and symptoms: prolonged severe sadness, feeling of worthlessness, loss of interest, fatigued, anxious, irritable, loss or increase in appetite, sleep difficulty, suicidal talk and or attempt • Treatment: -Talk therapy -Group therapy -Electroconvulsive therapy -Medications: 1. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs):…

Depression is officially defined as “a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest”, according to the Mayo Clinic. The definition is a general statement that most people interpret in very different ways. You could ask one person what they think the definition is and they would say someone who is simply perpetually upset about something or another, and another more aware person may describe it as an illness of the mind. In the media the portrayal of depression…

, causes depression. The antidepressent, reserpine, depletes the monoamines by stopping them from being Depression is a mental disorder characterized by persistent low mood low self-esteem along with a lost of interest in normal pleasurable activities. Not all types of depressions are a mental disorder, a person can be sufering from normal depression, feeling discouraged and hopeless, which might have been brought on by life events, but they get better with time. The normal depression can…

Is occasional depression a natural state to an extent, and is the culture too eager to treat this as a disorder? Many people experience situations in daily life that trigger feelings of loneliness, rejection, debilitating fear, anxiety, and even grief. How our mind and body react to those feelings can be different for each person. Although some believe depression is just a natural state, the truth is it is a serious disorder that takes place mainly in children, causing them to harm themselves,…

Abstract Depressive disorders are prevalent and continue to grow in the United States and globally. People have attempted to define depression since the beginning of time but in the 17th and 18th centuries, studies for depressive disorders began to utilize the scientific method. The introduction of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1952 increased the quality of diagnosis, assessment, and treatment for people exhibiting depressive symptoms. The DSM-5 published…

Major depressive disorder is a mental disorder that has a pervasive and persistent, meaning it is a constantly repeating, low mood. This is goes along with low self-esteem and loss of interest or pleasure in normal activities that were enjoyable before. The word “Depression” is often times used to express this state of mind, but it also may refer to it in different ways as simply a low mood. This disorder is a condition that affects the victim’s family, work environment, school life, eating and…

Did you know that up to 20% of people experience symptoms of depression? There are many different causes to depression. Some can be the loss of a loved one, divorce, and even person failure at work, home, or even within your family. However, an individual might feel down and unhappy and not know the cause of it. Depressive disorders are disorders in which the person suffers from depression- an unrelenting lack of pleasure in life. Depressive disorders are extraordinarily common. Major depressive…