3. Mood disorders Flashcards
Emotion
states of arousal defined by subjective feelings, such as sadness or anger; usually short lived and marked by physiological features
affect
pattern of observable behaviours that are associated with subjective feelings
mood
a pervasive and sustained emotional response
depression
pervasive and sustained low mood and related behaviours and sumptoms
Dysthymia
experience of low mood
Dysphoria
Experience of mixed unpleasant emotions
Euphoria
Intense feelings of well-being, excitement, over-confidence and over optimism
mania
elevated mood, inflated self-esteem and associated symptoms
hypomania
increased energy but symptoms are less severe than mania
emotional symptoms
dysphoria/euphoria
cognitive symptoms
- Disturbed concentration
- Grandiosity and inflated self-esteem
- Depressive triad: themselves, environment, future
somatic symptoms
Fatigue, pains, appetite and sleep patterns
behavioural/affective symptoms
Affect, psychomotor slowing versus pursuit of
goals indiscriminately/agitation
difference between depression and normal sadness
Mood change is pervasive and persistent; does not improve, even temporarily, when engaging in pleasurable activities. Mood change may occur without precipitating events or may be out of proportion to the person’s circumstances
Impaired ability to function in social and occupational roles.
Mood change with additional cognitive, somatic behavioural signs.
Nature or quality of mood change may be different than what’s experienced with normal stress
Common features of depressive disorders
- Involve presence of “sad, empty or irritable mood, accompanied by somatic and cognitive changes”
depressive disorders distinguished from others
What distinguishes the different mood disorders is their duration, timing, and presumed aetiology
DSM-5 depressive disorder definition
Primary impairment involving sad, empty or irritable mood, accompanied by somatic and cognitive changes
DSM-5 forms of depressive disorders
- disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
- Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
- major depressive disorder
- persistent depressive disorder
- other depressive disorders due to other medical condition or substance or medication induced
major depressive episode/major depressive disorder criteria
• 1 major episode in the absence of any history of manic episodes
A. An episode is ≥5 of 9 symptoms indicative of change over 2-week period; including either (1): depressed mood, or (2): loss of interest or pleasure.
PLUS
B. Cause significant distress or impairment
C. Not attributable to other disorders/substances
DSM-5 beravement
Bereavement may induce great suffering, but it does not typically result in MDE/MDD. When they do co-occur, it may be more severe, prognosis may be worse, and it may occur in people with “other vulnerabilities” in which case “recovery may be facilitated by anti-depressant treatment”
Mild MDD
: Few, if any, symptoms in excess of those required to make the diagnosis are present, the intensity of the symptoms is distressing but manageable, and the symptoms result in minor impairment in social or occupational functioning.
moderate MDD
The number of symptoms, intensity of symptoms, and/or functional impairment are between those specified for “mild” and “severe.”
severe MDD
The number of symptoms is substantially in excess of that required to make the diagnosis, the intensity of the symptoms is seriously distressing and unmanageable, and the symptoms markedly interfere with social and occupational functioning.
specifiers of MDD
- Anxious distress
- Mixed features
- Melancholic features
- Atypical features
- Psychotic features (Mood-congruent or Moodincongruent)
- Catatonic features
- Peripartum onset
- Seasonal pattern
- Rapid cycling
Persistent Depressive Disorder (previous dysthymia)
• A more chronic, milder presentation
• Over a period of >2 years, exhibit a depressed
mood for most of the day, more days than not
possible symptoms of PDD
Two or more of 6 possible symptoms • Poor appetite or overeating • Insomnia/hypersomnia • Low energy or fatigue • Low self-esteem • Poor concentration/decision making • Feelings of hopelessness
Would NOT diagnose PDD if …
- Symptoms absent for more than 2 months at a time during 2-year period
- If at any time during first 2 years meets criteria for MDE/MDD, then given MDD diagnosis
- Presence of manic episode
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
Controversial addition to DSM 5
• Children 6-18 yo
• Chronic, severe, persistent irritability and frequent episodes of extremely out-of-control behaviour
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
Controversial addition to DSM 5
• Moved from DSM IV ‘further study criteria’ to the main body in the DSM 5
• Severe form of PMS, characterized by mood lability, irritability, dysphoria, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, changes in appetite and sleep, pain, etc.
• Mood disturbance is temporally linked to menses
Why is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder a bad change in DSM5?
DSM 5 will turn temper tantrums into a mental disorder- a puzzling decision based on the work of only one research group. We have no idea whatever how this untested new diagnosis will play out in real life practice settings, but my fear is that it will exacerbate, not relieve, the already excessive and inappropriate use of medication in young children. …. DSM 5 should not be adding a new disorder likely to result in a new fad and even more inappropriate medication use in vulnerable children.
why is excluding beravement a bad change in the DSM-5
Normal grief will become Major Depressive Disorder, thus medicalizing and trivializing our expectable and necessary emotional reactions to the loss of a loved one and substituting pills and superficial medical rituals for the deep consolations
of family, friends, religion, and the resiliency that comes with time and the acceptance of the limitations of life.
DSM-5 Bipolar disorders
Primary impairment involving mood but with a manic/hypomanic component
DSM-5 categories of bipolar disorders
- Bipolar I
- Bipolar II
- Cyclothymia
- Bipolar disorder due to medical condition or substance or medicaiton induced
Bipolar I
At least one manic eopisode
Bipolar II
- Hypomania: episodes of increased energy, not severe enough to qualify manic episodes
- At least 1 hypomanic episode, 1 depressive episode and no manic episodes
Cyclothumia
- Chronic, but less severe form of bipolar
* Symptoms of mania and depression rather than ‘episodes’
Manic episodecriteria
A. At least a week of (or any period of time if
hospitalisation results) abnormally & persistently
elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and
persistently increased goal-directed activity/energy:
feature is present for most of the day, nearly every
day of this period
B. ≥3 of 7 symptoms (≥ 4 if mood is irritable)
C. Sufficiently severe to cause marked impairment in
functioning, OR to necessitate hospitalisation, OR
with psychotic features
D. Not attributable to effects of a substance or due to
another medical condition (can be complicated)
Manic episode symptoms
3 or more of these symptoms (or 4 if mood is ‘irritable’):
- Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
- Decreased need for sleep
- Increased talkativeness or pressure of speech
- Flight of ideas or racing thoughts
- Distractibility
- Increased goal-directed activity / psychomotor agitation
- Excessive involvement in activities with high potential for painful consequences
Psychiatric emergency
- Risk can be high
- Decreased sense of threat
- Poor judgment
- Participation in high risk behaviours
- Presence of psychosis
- Persistence and recurrence are markers of potentially poorer response to treatment
Hypomanic Episode
Same symptoms as manic episode (3 or more) except:
• Lasts at least 4 consecutive days
• Unequivocal change in function but not severe enough to cause ‘marked impairment’ in function or trigger hospitalization
• Still necessitates treatment
Cyclothymic disorder
- Chronic, fluctuating mood disturbance for 2 years or more
- Numerous periods of hypomanic & depressive symptoms (not enough to meet criteria for episodes)
- Never symptom free for more than 2 months
- No history of major depressive episodes or mania during first 2 years
- Onset usually in adolescence or early adulthood
mean age of onset of depressive disorders
32
typically 5-6 lifetime episodes
risk of recurrence of depressive disorder and remission
- Risk of recurrence increases with each episode
- 1 episode = 50%
- 2 episodes = 70%
- 3 episodes = 90%
- The longer the remission, the less chance there is of relapse
recovery from depressive disorder
50% recover within 6 months of beginning of an episode
comorbidities of depressive disorder
anxiety, substance abuse
Mean age of onset of bipolar disorder
18-22 years