Depression Psurg Flashcards
healthy individuals are able to to experience the full range of emotions (x) to situation.
appropriate
In healthy individuals, changes in mood are restored to harmony through (x)
adaptation
Global Assessment Functioning (GAF) should be higher than
70
Range of mood
bright, euphoric/awesome, elated/happy, euthymia/ok, labile/ever changing, sad, dysthymic/down in the dumps, despairing/hopeless, depressed, anxious, guilty all the time, fearful, irritable
types of depressive d/o
major depressive, dysthymic d/o, premenstrual dysphoric d/o, mood d/o d/t general medical condition (GMC)
pt with depression manifest with
sadness, despair, pessimism, loss of interest, change in eating (seratonin)/sleeping pattern, vague somatic symptom, adhedonia; can present with anxiety too, diminished libido
Atypical depression pts eat a lot of
carbs
depressive d/o impairs
interpersonal functioning, social functioning, occupational functioning; ; don’t wanna do/go anything/where
Diagnostic criteria for major depressive d/o
5+ of depressed most of time, marked decrease in pleasure, weight gain/loss, sleep too little/much, fatigue most of time, feeling worthless/guilt, can’t think, recurrent thoughts of death; NO manic episode; s/s affect functioning; r/o drugs or low TSH, brain tumor, endocrine d/o, anemia, parkinson, adrenal d/o; r/o bereavement; s/s at least 2 wks
Major depressive d/o comorbidities
etoh abuse/dependence, OCD, anxiety d/o, low TSH
major depressive d/o classifications
single or recurrent, severity (catatonic?), chornic, seasonal patterns, psychosis
If with psychosis, what are mood congruent psychotic delusions?
nihilistic (no stomach) and somatic (pregnant 70 yo) delusions
Major Depression r/t GMC
chronic pain, alt tissue perfusion: cerebral, head injury, brain tumor, endocrine d/o
Major Depression Biological factors
Mainly Norepinephrine and serotonin, then dopamine and acetcholine
cimetidine (tagament) does what?
cause depression; H2 typically for gastric secretion from parietal cells and vasodilation; H2 blocked = decreased level for hypothalamus functions wakefulness, pain, and inflammatory response
how does depression affect hippocampus?
low memory, worthless, hopeless, guilt
how does depression affect amygdala?
anhedonia, anxiety, low motivation
how does depression affect hypothalamus?
sleep/appetite alteration, low energy, low libido
how does depression affect frontal cortex?
depressed mood, problem concentrating
how does depression affect cerebellum?
psychomotor retardation/agitation
How does depression affect limbic system?
emotional alteration
Major Depression etiology
high hypothalmic Pituitary Adrenocortical Axis activity leads to increase cortisol (a stress hormone); hypothyroidism; genetic/familial fx