Premenstrual dysphoric disorder

struggle with depression. Over 19 million Americans, or 9.5% of the population in any given one-year period have or get diagnosed with depression. (“What is Depression”) Depression is a serious disorder caused by your brain chemistry. (“What is Depression”) Is depression caused by people's past? Depression is a disorder that causes a person to be in a doleful disposition and have a lack of enthusiasm. The feeling of misery and hopelessness lasts for many days to many weeks. It affects the mind…

Major Depressive Disorder Depression is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It interferes with daily life and normal functioning, and causes pain for both the person with the disorder and those who care about him/her. A depressive disorder is not the same as a passing blue mood. It is not a sign of personal weakness or a condition that can be wished or thrown away. People with depression can’t just decide to get better. Depression is highly treatable, and because there are…

Depression impacts people lives by having problems at home, stressing out of work, lots of money, divorces, bullying, relationships, school, dislike your body image, lots of attention, unhappy with money (rich people), social media, low self esteem, sexual abuse, or harass. Many people can’t control it because when you’re depressed it can feel like no one can’t really understand. You cry into tears and don’t know what to do anymore that’s when people think about suicide. You feel like it’s the…

Symptoms of peri-natal depression include sleep disturbances,changes in appetite, mood changes, and difficulty concentrating. There are many risks associated with untreated depression during pregnancy. They include preterm labor, growth retardation, decreased prenatal care, poor weight gain, and increased substance use. Depression during pregnancy is very common, but also under diagnosed because women feel they should be joyous since they are having a baby. Depression is very different from the…

prevalent sleep disorder is insomnia, a disorder in which one is unable to fall asleep and/or stay asleep. There are three types of insomnia: Short-term, Primary, and Secondary. Short-term insomnia can be caused by a number of things, including jet lag, extreme temperature, stress, medication, and emotional or physical discomfort. The most common form of insomnia is primary insomnia, and is more common in women than men and increases with age. Secondary insomnia can be caused by mental disorders…

"Bulimia Nervosa is an eating disorder in which a person binges and purges. Bingeing means eating a large amount of food in a short period of time. Purging means getting rid of all the food by self-induced vomiting; abuse of laxatives, diet pills, and/or diuretics, excessive exercising; or fasting"( Teen Health and Wellness 2015). All over the world studies have been conducted and have shown that bulimia currently affects 1 to 3 percent of middle and high school girls and 1 to 4 percent of the…

impact on just how much this deprivation impairs him or her. Sleep deprivation can have several possible causes and its effects are different in each case; however, there are several types of sleep disorders that cause sleep deprivation that have consequential effects. There are several types of sleep disorders that cause one to experience sleep deprivation such as insomnia, restless leg syndrome (RLS), and sleep apnea. Insomnia can be caused by stress, jet lag, and diet, tending to increase…

Bipolar and Pregnancy Bipolar disorder, sometimes still referred to as manic depression, is a mental disorder marked by alternating periods of elation and depression. Not only does it cause serious shifts in mood, energy, thinking and behaviour, the cycles of the disorder can last for days, weeks or months at a time. Bipolar disorders also have major adverse social and economic effects that often interfere with a person’s ability to work and function normally. For women, bipolar and pregnancy…

days in mourning. I would suggest this because April needs a motherly figure in her life since her mother doesn’t step up to it someone has to. The book Perfect is similar to the book Skinny by Ibi Kaslik. It is also about a girl who has an eating disorder except that she thinks that she is too fat and eats too little which is the exact opposite for Isabelle, who binge eats and throws up. This book relates to an article that came out on October 2nd 2014 called…

Bipolar disorder is a medical condition that causes periods of mania and depression ( Manji, Martinowich, & Schloesser, 2009, p.726). The length of episodes can vary from days to weeks. Full recovery can typically be seen between episodes. The Bipolar disorder general population is 2% with the median on set age of 25 years old (Hales, Hilty, Kelly, Leamon, & Lim, 2006, p.43). Affecting both male and female alike. However, Bipolar II is more common in women, whereas Bipolar I in men (Hales, Hilty…