Depression Flashcards
2 high prevalence mental disorders:
Major Depression
Anxiety Disorder
2 kinds of anxiety disorders:
Panic/Agoraphobia
Generalised
When is depression not normal? 3 things and how long?
Persistant
interferes with function
distress
2 weeks minimum duration
when is major depression worst during day?
morning wakening
what is anhedonia?
loss of pleasure in all activities
4 questions to ask for Major Depression screen?
Low energy?
Loss of interest?
lost confidence in self?
hopeless?
Major depressive episode post AMI?
increases morbidity
impact recovery
what can mimic major depression/anxiety disorders:
substance intoxication/withdrawal
5 cognitive symptoms of depression:
depressed mood anhedonia worthless feeling no concentration recurrent thoughts of death
anxiety definition?
diffuse, unpleasant, vague sense of apprehension causing physical discomfort
what is Yerkes-Dodson relationship?
certain Arousal enhances performance, but too much impairs it.
when is anxiety considered a disorder
when the intensity or duration is out of proportion to the ‘danger’
what does generalised anxiety disorder mean?
global apprehension, not to a specific threat
