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| The mood disorder diagnoses are essentially defined as patterns of mood disturbances observed through time. |
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| Major Depressive, Manic, Hypomanic, and Mixed |
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| a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction. Difficulty sleeping or excessive sleeping. Fatigue and lack of energy. A dramatic change in appetite resulting in a 5% change in weight (gain or loss) in a month. Feelings of worthlessness, self-hate, and guilt. Inability to concentrate, think clearly, or make decisions. Agitation, restlessness, and irritability. Inactivity and withdrawal from typical pleasurable activities. Feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. Thoughts of death or suicide |
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characterized by a persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, lasting at least 1 week (or any duration if hospitalization is necessary). In addition, three (or more) of the following symptoms must be present (four symptoms must be present if the person's mood is only irritable):
Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
Decreased need for sleep (e.g., feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep)
More talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking
Racing thoughts
Distractibility (i.e., attention too easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli)
Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or feelings of agitation/restlessness
Excessive involvement in risky activities (e.g., shopping sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments) |
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| Hypomanic episodes are a milder form of manic episodes. Both share the same list of symptoms described above. However, the DSM criteria for Hypomanic episodes state that the person's mood disturbance occurs throughout at least 4 days (rather than 1 week as with a Manic Episode). |
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| Mixed episodes are essentially a combination of manic and depressive episodes that become superimposed so that symptoms of both are present (at different times) during the same day. More specifically, the criteria are met both for a Manic Episode and for a Major Depressive Episode nearly every day during at least a 1-week period |
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| the inability to experience pleasure |
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| The term "mood" describes one's emotions or emotional temperature. It is a set of feelings that express a sense of emotional comfort or discomfort. Sometimes, mood is described as a prolonged emotion that colors a person's whole psychic life and state of well-being. The term "mood" describes one's emotions or emotional temperature. It is a set of feelings that express a sense of emotional comfort or discomfort. Sometimes, mood is described as a prolonged emotion that colors a person's whole psychic life and state of well-being. The term "mood" describes one's emotions or emotional temperature. It is a set of feelings that express a sense of emotional comfort or discomfort. Sometimes, mood is described as a prolonged emotion that colors a person's whole psychic life and state of well-being. It is helpful to think of mood states as occurring on a continuum. |
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| Major Depression. Opposite of Bipolar |
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| Chronic, Catatonic, Meloncholic, Atypical, Postpardum, Seasonal Pattern. |
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| Seasonal Pattern Specifier for MDD |
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| this specifier is used when at least two of a person's major depressive episodes occur regularly and coincide with a specific season of the year. |
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| Post-pardum Onset specifier of MDD |
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| this specifier is used if the onset of MDD occurs in close proximity (within 4 weeks) to childbirth. Common symptoms include mood fluctuations and excessive preoccupation with the infant's well-being. Postpartum depression can also include psychotic thinking with unshakable false beliefs (delusions). Delusional thoughts that include themes of harming the infant are particularly dangerous. |
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| Atypical specifier for MDD |
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| this specifier is used for people who display the following "unusual" depressive symptoms: mood reactivity (a person's mood brightens in response to positive events); significant weight gain or increase in appetite; hypersomnia (sleeping excessively); leaden paralysis (a heavy, leaden feelings in arms or legs); and a long-standing pattern of being highly sensitive to interpersonal slights (not limited to episodes of mood disturbance) that results in significant social or occupational impairment. |
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| Meloncholic Specifier for MDD |
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| a person demonstrates one or more distinct qualities of depressed mood such as: mood that is regularly worse in the morning; early morning awakening (at least two hours before the usual time); marked psychomotor retardation (a generalized slowing of psychological and physical activity) or agitation (speeding up of physical activity); significant anorexia (loss of appetite) or unplanned weight loss; and excessive or inappropriate guilt. In addition, the person does not feel better (even temporarily), when something good happens. |
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| Catatonic Specifier for MDD |
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| a person demonstrates one or many unusual movements and mannerisms, including: motoric immobility (periods during which they do not move) or excessive movement; extreme negativism (resisting instructions or maintaining a rigid posture against attempts to be moved); mutism (an inability to speak); posturing (taking up inappropriate or bizarre body positions and holding them for periods of time); stereotyped movements (repeating behaviors over and over); prominent grimacing; and/or the compulsive repetition of someone else's words or movements. |
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