As your healthcare provider likely covered with you, depression — or major depressive disorder (MDD) — is a mental illness that’s classified as a mood disorder. It’s one of themost common mental health disorders, estimated to affect around 8.4% of adults. However, it can still be seri...
Depression in the media is often presented as struggling to complete daily tasks and get out of bed, severely losing the ability to care for oneself. While these symptoms characterize major depressive disorder (MDD), some people may live with a type of depression that allows them to function d...
Studies examining the contributions of specific emotion regulation (ER) processes and negative affect (NA) to PTSD and MDD co-occurrence are scarce. This study investigated a transdiagnostic understanding of the nature of PTSD and MDD co-occurrence by examining the roles of NA, ER processes, and...
Depression is a long-term, serious mood disorder that can affect your daily feelings, actions and thoughts. Depression is sometimes called major depressive disorder (MDD).Depression can cause profound, long-lasting feelings of sadness, tearfulness, loss of interest in daily activities, and often ...
Lack of studies with antidepressant comparators None of the registration studies evaluating EMSAM in MDD used an antidepressant comparator; the FDA approval process does not mandate an antidepressant comparator (it does mandate a placebo comparator). Clinicians surely would have felt more comfortable ...
Most SSRIs are for treating MDD or unipolar depression. If you have bipolar disorder, inform your doctor because SSRIs can bring on manic episodes in such people. In this case, your doctor will need to consider other medicines for you. ...
It does so by temporarily redirecting the body's resources—like blood, oxygen, andglucose(blood sugar)—away from non-essential organs (like the stomach, intestines, and bladder) to essential ones (like the muscles and eyes). These changes are responsible for the functional signs of stress.1...
attentional set-shifting and pattern separation in a dose- and time-dependent manner. This creates a window of increased cognitive flexibility in which patients can learn to overcome thenegativity biasthat is responsible for the persistent negative affect though the creation of novel cognitive ...
The little on and off scratch of depression you felt back then is now a full grown monster tearing your flesh off, and is called Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Yes, like your furniture, your home, your family, and everything else, depression has become a permanent part of your life to...
How does social phobia impact your life? Getty/MoMo Productions Someone with social phobia or social anxiety may experience difficulty in a number of different social situations. Situations where symptoms of social anxiety disorder or social phobia may be notable ...