Major depressive disorder

Initial Diagnostic Case – For Practice Edgar is a 25-year-old married man who is being hospitalized after a suicide attempt that resulted in a car crash into a lake. He has been having a depressive episode for the past six months. This is the first episode he has experienced and it has several characteristics including feelings of depression, loss of interest, weight loss, hypersomnia, poor concentration and thoughts of suicide. His casual daily drinking of 1 or 2 beers per day has increased…

A mental disorder is a certain behavioral or mental pattern that can lead to difficulty in functioning in an ordinary life. Many people suffering from mental disorders are not able to live healthy lives due to their condition. Ray is a 29 year old father who faces bipolar disorder, he has constant mood swings and is often suicidal. Also we can see that he represses lots of his feelings because of his grandmother. Ray has bipolar disorder, which is a mental disorder in which the patient…

told her that she had anorexia, bulimia, and bipolar disorder. There are many types of depression.Some of them are, bipolar one and two, Cyclothymic disorder,Persistent depressive disorder, and Premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Depending on the type of depression you have, it may affect you differently.Many people with bipolar depression can be happy one minute and then a trigger can happen and make them depressed or very happy.Cyclothymic disorder is just like bipolar depression but the levels…

of a mood or anxiety disorder following pregnancy is a common complication of pregnancy and can lead to devastating effects for both mother and child. This paper seeks to assess the veracity of a recent article published by Kelly Wallace of CNN concerning PPD as it relates to a recent rash of tragedies in New York City involving mothers throwing their infants out of multi-story windows resulting in multiple infant fatalities. Postpartum depression is defined as a depressive…

There is the anxiety disorder is a person that constantly feel fear. The types of anxiety are generalized anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder, phobias, panic disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder There is the impulse-control disorder that have the incapability to control their impulses, this where the person either hurts themselves or others. Examples of that is when someone is fire-starting, stealing, hair-pulling, and skin picking. The dissociative disorder is when…

targets the lungs, causing a progressive decline in respiratory function and overall quality of life. These patients silently suffer, as PROMIS scale scores indicate that depression in these patients are comparable to those in people with major depressive disorder, fatigue that presents slightly worse than those of people with heart failure, sleep disturbances that compare to those with obstructive sleep apnea, and dyspnea severity significantly worse than those with COPD (Yount et al., 2016).…

Bipolar disorder is a documented mental illness that is treatable. This form of manic depression can have positive outcomes if being treated appropriately. It is separated into three groups: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, and Bipolar NOS. We do not know if there is a significant difference in the effects of a person’s self-representation of themselves, varying which diagnosis. This form of manic depression is not a fabricated disease or a personality problem stemming from an individual’s genetic…

the mental health field. "At least 90 percent of people who commit suicide have a diagnosable and potentially treatable mental illness." (Friedman, Richard A.) Suicide can be prevented; nevertheless, 58.8 percent of teens who qualify as having a depressive episode do not seek treatment. Scientists claim that with a questionnaire…

The primary DSM diagnosis would be Moderate Alcohol Use Disorder 303.90 (F10.20) (APA, 2013). Miguel exhibits four or more of the DSM-5 criteria. Miguel shows signs of unsuccessfully limiting his alcohol consumption, he craves alcohol when he is paying the bills, the alcohol consumption is affecting his functions at home and work and he continues the use of alcohol when he is unsure why he is drinking (APA, 2013). At this time there is no known medical diagnosis until further information is…

Major depression is a mood disorder that causes to have negative feelings for an extensive time as it could take a few days or even weeks. Those negative feelings include sadness, anger, loss, hopelessness and discouragement. They can interfere individual’s daily activities due to the lack of ambition and energy. Depression can be caused through different symptoms such as family history, stressful events, personality, loneliness, illness and physical changes. This essay will be exploring on…