L8 - Depression & Characteristics Flashcards
Examples of behavioural characteristics
Shift in energy levels Social impairment Sleep pattern disturbance Poor personal hygiene Aggression and self-harm
Describe changes in energy
Become fatigued and lethargic, high inactivity
May have lots of nervous energy so are restless
Describe sleep pattern disturbance
May have insomnia or hypersomnia
Describe aggressiona nd self harm
Irritable so may be physically e.g. through self harm, or verbally aggressive
State emotional characteristics
Loss of enthusiasm
Constant depressed mood
Worthlessness
Anger
What’s a loss of enthusiasm
Less concern with enjoyable activities and feeling less pleasure in doing them
What is a constant depressed mood?
Feeling overwhelmingly low, sad, hopeless, and empty
Describe worthlessness
Feeling less worth, inappropriately guilty, and low self-esteem
Describe anger
Displacing anger towards others, or themselves
Wanting to retaliate from feeling hurt
State cognitive characteristics
Delusions Reduced concentration Thinking of death Negative thinking Absolutist thinking Poor memory
Describe delusions
Believing things although reality contradicts it
Can be guilt, punishment
Hallucinations
Describe reduced concentration
Can’t maintain attention, esp. for long periods of time
Slower thought processes, harder to make decisions
Describe thoughts of death
Constant thoughts of death
May think the world’s better w/o them
Describe absolutist thinking
Think situations are either completely good or bad
Don’t notice things that were good/could have been better
Describe negative thinking
Negative expectations about the world, life, relationships
Leads to self-fulfilling prophecy
Ignore positive (cognitive bias)
