Symptoms Of Symptoms And Treatment Of A Depressive Disorder

Helen recurrent mood episodes and suicidal ideation needs to be addressed immediately. Her moods episodes

*Dysthymia: low mood occurring for at least two years, along with at least two other symptoms of depression.

Diana Miller is a deeply troubled young woman who has on numerous occasions been hospitalized in psychiatric institutions for severe abnormal behaviour. Following a serious suicide attempt and seventh hospitalization, Diana was given a diagnosis of major depressive disorder and a borderline personality disorder (BPD). The purpose of this essay is to elucidate the diagnostic accuracy of Diana’s disorders via the analysis of diagnostic features, sociocultural factors, and treatment interventions.

A major depressive episode is not a disorder in itself, but rather more of a description or symptoms of part of a disorder most often depressive disorder or bipolar. A person suffering from a major depressive episode must have a depressed mood or a loss of interest in daily activities consistently for a minimum of a two-week time span (Psych Central, 2013). In diagnosing the mood must reflect a change from the person’s normal mood. A person’s daily activities and functions, such as work, social routines and friends, education, family, and relationships must also have been negatively impacted by the change in their mood. A major depressive episode is also identified by presence of five or more of the following symptoms. The patient can show signs of significant weight loss or weight gain even not dieting or trying to lose or gain weight. The patient will also display a change in appetite almost everyday, either with an increase or a decrease in their normal eating habits. The weight change is typically set at an increase or decrease in weight of more than 5% per month. The patient will display a depressed mood almost the entire day and this sadness, emptiness, loneliness, crying, and distant is observed by others or indicted by the patient, is typically

Inability to enjoy activities you once loved, such as reading, playing video games, drawing, etc.

The disorder is marked by changes in: emotions, motivation, their physical well-being and daily thoughts.

The worse one to deal with is the extreme fatigue. She wakes up in the morning feeling the way most people do at the end of a long bad day. I feel so sorry for her due to the fact that she has to miss important occasions like picnics, dinner parties, and many other enjoyable occasions. The fatigue shuts her body down and forces her to rest. How she keeps up with her teaching, editing jobs, and managing a family is beyond me.

Jane may feel frustrated by her deficient communication and may blame herself for her disorder. Losing independence may make Jane feel upset and worthless. She may feel a burden to her family and socially isolated as she struggles to have conversations with groups of people and loses track of her thoughts and speech. She may also feel embarrassed by her limited memory and attention span. Furthermore, Janes family may experience high levels of anxiety or depression. (Headway.org.uk, 2017). They may struggle to communicate with Jane and feel intimidated by her dominating behaviour.

One of these symptoms must include either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure. This is further explored in the book as Klawans attempts to diagnose a girl, Marilou, with unusual symptoms. The child’s mother believes she has depression because she had stopped talking, seemed as if she had no concern for her surroundings, and paid little attention to her family or peers. It was later discovered by Klawans that she did not have depression, however, she had abnormal electrical charges in her left temporal lobe which inhibited her speech output and left her temporarily deaf. These symptoms, as shown, can be easily mistaken as depression, partially because it is such a commonly diagnosed disease.

Emotional Symptoms leading to depression, worry, intense guilt, numbness, loss of interest in previous enjoyed activities, insomnia, intense guilt,

persistent low mood that is accompanied by low self-esteem and by loss of interest or pleasure in

A major depressive episode is described as having a depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure along with five (or more) of the following symptoms: (a) significant weight loss, (b) insomnia or hypersomnia, (c) psychomotor agitation or retardation, (d) fatigue or loss of energy, (e) feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt, (f) diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, and (g) recurrent

Ellen showed signs of dissatifation of her weight and obsessive wants to be a certain size. She is happy with her weight at 110 pounds. She was also not happy with her relationships, especially her her parents. She was not happy with her boyfriend because he cheated. The dissatifaction from the lack of relationship with family and friends along with losing her boyfriend to a younger women could of lead her to depression.

It is important to know about Emily’s variations in mood, due to the diagnostic features of Bipolar. Individuals with bipolar II disorder typically present to a clinician during a major

Major Depressive Disorder is marked by sadness and any four of the following seven criteria: weight loss or weight gain, insomnia or hypersomnia, motor slowing or agitation, fatigue, worthlessness or guilt, impaired concentration, and thoughts of suicide or suicide attempt. Those with Major Depressive Disorder have never had mania or hypomania and may also have anxiety symptoms. When the Major Depressive Disorder is combined with melancholic features, then the person has a “loss of pleasure in all, or almost all, activities [and has a] lack of reactivity to usually pleasurable stimuli (does not feel better, even temporarily, when something good happens” (American Psychiatric Association, p. 185). Observations made by others, such as being tearful, is also a criterion of this disorder (American