Psychotic depression

Depression also known as, major depressive disorder or clinical depression, is a serious condition in which affects how you think, feel, and handle daily activities. Depression can happen to anyone at any age. This serious mood disorder comes in different forms, which develop under distinctive circumstances. Some of those examples are: Persistent depressive disorder, Perinatal depression, Psychotic depression, Seasonal affective disorder, and Bipolar disorder. All these types of depressions can…

Introduction The topic that will be discussed in this paper is Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) also known as depression. Depression is known as one of the most common psychiatric disorders that can be found on young and old adults. This paper will go into detail on what is MDD the different types of treatment options, and its diagnosis. Description Major Depressive Disorder is one of the most serious medical illness that may affect how someone feels, think and or act. It is a disorder…

The most widely used criteria for diagnosing depressive conditions are found in the American Psychiatric association's fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR). DSM-IV Criteria for MDD: Depressed mood or loss of interest and pleasure in daily activities for weeks. Mood represents a change from the person's baseline. at least 5 of these symptoms nearly every day: 1. Depressed mood most of the day 2. Lack of interest in doing most activities 3.…

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,…

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…

Cognitive-behaviour to the popular approaches of psychotherapy. Nowadays, we no longer burn, drown or give lobotomies to people suffering from a depressive disorder. We are much more aware that the environmental factors can have as much affect on depression as the physical factors involved, and usually it is a combination of the two that best describes the causes. The mind and the body work together in ways that we are still finding more evidence for everyday. In the mental health community…

their life and career, they work hard for it, but they are also suffering with stress and tensions due to lots of work, personal problems, life changes, family, too many responsibilities,… and there is no way out of it that people are sinking into depression. People find a way to release those pressures through different types of entertainment, such as: cinema, comedy shows, music, sports, games and the list goes on and on. But the most effective way to entertain is through humor, the art of…

me, what is depression? Imagine this. Here I am lying in bed crying myself to sleep just like every night. Just wishing all of the pain will go away. It never does. It feels like it is stitched into me. Listen to me like no one has before. It is taking over my whole body, and it weakens even more every second of the day. There is no reason to move on with life. I feel so emotionally, physically, and mentally drained. Put yourself in my worthless life and feel what I feel. Depression is waking up…

long they last is different for each person .Depression usually runs on families, maybe due to genes, behaviors learn at home or your environment. But there are others factor that can cause…

Days, Glad Days: A Story about Depression would most likely be for ages of 5-8. The story is about a girl, Amanda Martha, trying to understand her mother’s depression. Which at times causes her mother to be sad, cry, or even be in bed all day. This book is meant to help children deal with parents with depression and notice that there are good and bad days to depression. There are also quite a few illustrations, which are meant to help the children visualize depression. Mommy stayed in bed this…