UNIT 2- DEPRESSION Flashcards
What is depression?
Depression is a syndrome rather than one specific disease. Depression disorders represent a group of syndromes that share some common symptoms but with different etiologies, courses and treatments
What is major depressive disorder (MDD)
Affects how you feel, think and behave causing persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest in previously enjoyed activites
Most common expression of depressive symptoms
What is Peristent Depressive Disorder (dysthmyia) PDD
Also known and unipolor depression. A person experiences depression without every experiencing an excessive elevated mood or mania
True or false: Confusion or attention problems in older adults may often be misdiagnosed for things like dementia?
True- depression can cause confusion and attention problems in older adults
What should we keep in mind with older adults and depression?
- Complaints of sadness are less prominent
- excessive concern with physical health compared
- Complain of feeling tired and have trouble sleeping
- Seem grumpy or irritable
What should we keep in mind with children & adolescents and depression?
- Children presents as irritability, phsyical complaints, decline in school performance, or social withdraw and may start to use drugs and alcohol at a younger age
- After puberty, girls are twice as likely to develope depression
- Adolescents may present with sulkking, being negative grouchy, getting introuble, feeling misunderstood, withdrawing from others, or running away from home
- Major depression in adolescents is associated with substance use disorders, behavior problems and other mental illnessess
What are risk factors for depression?
- Histor of prior episodes od depression
- Family hx of depressive disorder esp. in first degree realitives
- History of suicide attempts, or family hx of suicide attempts
- Memebers of the LGBTQ community
- Female gender
- postpartum period
- age 40 or younger
- Chonic medical illness
- absence of social support
- negative, stressful life evens, particulary early trauma
- Active alcohol or substance use disorder
- hx of sexual abuse
What are biochemical factors that affect depression?
Changes in receptor-neurotransmitter relationship in the following areas
1. limbic system
2. hypothalmus
3. prefrontal cortex
4. hippocampus
5. amygdala
Neutrotransmitters
1. decreased levels of serotonin
2. decreased levels of norepinephrine
3. decreased levels of dopamine
4. decreased levels of glutamate
5. decreased gaba
6. decreased acetylcholine
What should we know about the stress-diathesis model of depression?
- Environmental,interpersonal and life evens
- biological vulnerability and predisposition
- stress can cause neurphysiological and neurochemical changes in the brain
4. Early life trauma can result in long-term hyperactivty of the corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and norepinephrine systme of the central nervious system leading to neuronal loss and damage
what should we know about the cognitive theory? (depression)
Aaron T. Beck
1. people acquire a psycholgical predisoostion to depression through early life expereinces
2. Contributing to negative, illogical and irrational thought processes which are activated when stressed
3. what you think = what you feel (and do)
4. Triad- automatic negative thought
- A negative, self depreciating view of self
- A pessimistic view of the world
- The belief that negative reinforcement will continue
5. **GOal of cognitive behavior theory (CBT) is to change the way a patient thinks reducing negative thoughts. **
What is filtering?
Taking negative details and magnifying them while giltering out all the postive aspects of a situation
What is polorized thinking for “black and white” thinking
Things are either “black or white”. We have to be perfect or we are a failure there is no middle ground
What is personalization?
A distorted belief that everything others do or say is somehow about us
What is control fallacies?
- we see ourselves as helpless a victim of fate, having no control or we assume total responsibility for the pain and happiness of everyone around us (overcontrol)
What is fallacy of fairness
- we feel resentful because we think we know what is fair but other people wont agree with us
What is shoulds
we have a list of ironclad rules about how we and others should and must behave
Using SIGECAPS what is the clinical picture of MDD?
S- sleep distrubances
I-interest diminshed in pleasurable activites
G- guilt feeling; feeling of worthlessness
E- energy decreased or fatiuge and esteem loss
C- concentration diminished and indecisiveness
A- appetite changes
P- Psychomotor retardation or agitation
S- Suicidal thought and behaviors and thoughts of death
What is the clincial picture for PDD?
- Less severe symptoms than MDD
- Depressive symptoms that have been present for atleast 2 years
- Somtimes taken as the persons normal behavior
- Usually dosent require hosptialization
- Age of onset is usually adolescene or with severe stress can manifest in adulthood
- daytime fatigue
- Functions at work and insocial settings but not optimally
- chronic low-level depressed/irritable mood
- Eating too much or too little
- usually has trouble falling asleep and once asleep, hypersomnia
- loss of energy, chornic tiredness
- Decreased ability to experience pleasure, enthusiasm or motivation
- Irritablity
- Neagtive, pestimistic thnking
- low self esteem
What are some pychotic features that you might have with MDD?
Hallucinations and delsuions
What should we know about MDD and peripartum onset?
During pregnancy and following delievery. May include psychotic features and risk to infant
What is seasonal affective disorder?
SAD, most commonly occurs in fall or winter. Remits in spring includes overeating, angeria, hypersomnia – linked to the absence of sunlight
What are catatonic features that we might see in MDD?
- nonresponsive, psychomotor retardation and withdrawl or aggitated or physically active.
What is disruptive mood dysregualtion disorder?
seen in children, chronic severe persistent irritability with outbursts
What is premenstrual dysphoric disorder?
- Depressive symptoms are present in the week before the onset of menses and gradually improve afte the onset of menses
What should we know about premenstrual dysphoric disorder?
- Occurs in luteal phase of cycles
- emotionally liable
- anger or irritable
- depressed mood
- may also include lack of energy, overeating, sleep distrubances, physical symptoms
What is PPD?
Postpartum depression
includes
1. Baby blues- feels depressed anxious. cries for no reason, sleep problems. occurs in 70-80 % of new moms, improvement within 1-2 weeks without treatment
2. PPD- strong feelings of sadness anxiety, despair, guilt, difficult coping. Symptoms DO NOT subside. May have thoughts of self harm, or harm to the baby.
What is Postpartum psychosis?
- Rare
- Recurrance is extremely high with each pregnancy with more severe episodes
- Onset is fairly rapid within 3 days to 1 week after delivery
- agitated, anxious, disorganized behavior
- delusions are baby foucsed
think of the story where the mom killed her 4 children because she thought they were not pure
What are some examples of stadardized screening tools for depression?
- Beck depression inventory
- Hamilton depression scale
- Geriatric depression scale
- Zung’s self-rating depression scale
- The patient health questionare
- the Edinburgh post natal depression scale
Our detailed mood and affect assessment for depression disorders should look for?
- feeling of worthelessness
- guilt
- helplessness
- hopelessness-negative expectations for the future
- anger and irritablity
- anxiety-60-90% of depressed patients experience anxiety as well
- affect
What are some phsycial changes-clinical symptoms we should assess for when assessing for depression?
- Poor posture
- Appears older than they are
- sees world through gray colored glassess
- facial expression conveys sadness and dejection
- Frequent bouts of weeping
- Anergia 97%
- psychomotor agitation
- grooming and hygeine neglected
- vegitative signs of depression
- pain 50-75%
What is a depressed patients cognition and thought content going to look like?
- Thnking is slow
- memory and ability to concentrate may be affected
- ruminate
- decrease in problem solving
- poor judgment
- indecisivess
- delusional thinking with psychotic features
What might our nursing process/diagnosis be for a patient with depression disorder
- Risk of harm
- mood regulation/stability
- withdrawn behavior leading to social isolation
- lack of motivation leading to self care deficits
- loss of appetite can lead to impaired nutrition
- Distrubance of sleep
- impairment of self esteem reduing quality of life