Mood Disorders - Chapter 8 Content Flashcards
Define mood disorder.
A group of disorders involving severe and enduring disturbances ranging from joy to reverse depression.
Define major depressive disorder.
It is the most common and severe experience of depression, with feelings of worthlessness, and abnormal activity with slee, loss on interest and inability to experience pleasure, and persisting for a least 2 weeks.
Criteria for major depressive disorder.
A. five or more symptoms in the same 2-week period, at least one has to be either depressed mood or loss of interest/pleasure
B. clinically significant
C. not due to another substance or medical condition
D. not better explained by schizophrenia
E. there is not manic/hypomanic episodes
Define the state of mania.
A period of abnormal excessive joy or euphoria, associated with some mood disorders. Increased goal directed activity, energy, fast talker, flight of ideas, inflated self-esteem
What is the differnce between a manic and hypmanic episode?
Manic is the most intense feeling of abnormal happiness (1 week and hospitalized), where hypomania is less severe and disruptive version of a manic episode but it is also criteria for several mood disorders (4days and not hospitaliz)
Define unipolar disorder.
This is where individuals experince only depressive or manic episode, not both, only one
What is the feeling of mixed features?
This is the condition in which the individuals experience both joy and depressions or anxiety at the same time, also can be called dysphoric manic disorder
What is persistent depressive disorder or known as dysthymia?
It is a mood disorder involving persistent depressed mood, low self-esteem, withdrawal, and despair, and is present for at least 2 years, with no absence of symptoms for more than 2 months. this also involves not manic episodes.
What is it called when people suffer from both major depressive disorder and dysthymia?
Said to be called double depression.
What are some possible symptoms that people in a major depressive or manic episode may experience?
Psychotic features such as hallucinations, delusions, somatic delusions such as thinking they are rotting internally, auditory hallucinations. Also there is peripartum onset specific is just after giving birth, and they have difficulty understanding why they are depressed.
Define seasonal affective disorder or SAD.
This is a mood disorder involving a cycling of episodes corresponding to the season usually is depression in the winter.
What is the type of grief that most of us experience?
Intergrated grief that evolves from acute grief into a condition in which the person accepts the death and adjusted with the loss.
What is complicated grief?
it is grief that is characterised by feelings of loss and emotions that are so painful that a person has troubling resuming their life.
What is permenstrual dysphoric disorder?
This is a disorder of mood symptoms that include physical, mood swings, and anxiety that happens during most menstrual cycles, They start in the final week before onset and improve within a few days after menstruation is complete.
What is disruptive mood dysregulation disorder?
A condition in which a child has chronic negative moods such as anger and irritability without any mania.
