Mood disorders Flashcards
most common illnesses on the planet
anxiety and depression
Bio/psycho/social/spiritual model
Model for holistic care
All intimately connected
Spiritual- all-encompassing
bio- what it is doing, symptoms, physical representation
Psychologically- understand them, thoughts
social- how connected to the world, support systems, and social interaction feeding into disorder
DSM-5
- came out in
-mostly used for
-diagnosis follows 3 criteria
-2013
- classification of mental illnesses for diagnostic purposes
1. certain amount of symptoms key to that illness (challenge)
2. time frame these symptoms have been present
3. level of dysfunction or failure to participate in life symptoms cause
Emotions (6)
-short discreet
-contextually based
-physiological psychological
-easily manipulated
-quick response to what is going on
-adaptive and maladaptive
Feelings
-cognitive processing/interpretation that created the emotional state
-understanding the signals in our body
moods
- get stuck with emotions
- emotion is no longer attached to something
- no more context
- long-term and not going away
- all the same signals
- healthy and unhealthy (grief)
- an untethered emotional state that shows up everywhere where it doesn’t make sense.
Euthymic
- appropriate for the context
- what you would expect
Mania (5)
- heightened expansive mood
- very top near euphoria
- chaotic
- serves no purpose
- causes massive destruction in someone’s life
Major depressive disorder symptoms (9)
depressed mood
decreased interest or pleasure
significant weight loss
insomnia/hypersomnia
psychomotor retardation or agitation
fatigue/loss of energy
worthlessness/inappropriate guilt
diminished ability to think or concentrate
recurrent thoughts of death/suicide
MDD symptomes to
separate from an emotional state of being depressed
In order to be diagnosed with MDD
Need to have at least these two
1- depressed mood
2- decreased interest or pleasure
up to 3 or 4 of the rest of the symptoms
time frame
- 2 weeks for the day or most of the day
For MDD symptoms must
-cause
- cant
cause significant impairment in function
cant be because of other meds or conditions, rule out other factors
Post partum depression results from
rhythms and cycles
hormone changes
seasonal affective disorder
amount of sunlight you receive
repetitive in seasons
doesn’t always work the same for everyone
Bipolar disorder
-Mania or hypomania for at least 1 week and present most of the day, nearly every day
-3 or more of the following symptoms that represent a noticeable change from usual behavior
- cyclical (rare that its diagnosis it is its own thing)
- cycling through different emotional states with no connection to what’s happening
- mania shorter time frame