Childhood depression is different from the normal blues and everyday emotions most kids feel. If your child is sad, it doesn’t mean they have depression. But when their sadness stays day after day, depression may be an issue. Disruptive behavior that interferes with normal social activities, ...
According to the DSM-5, a manual doctors use to diagnose mental disorders, you have depression when you have five or more of these symptoms for at least 2 weeks: Your mood is depressed for most of the day, especially in the morning. You feel tired or have a lack of energy almost ever...
These are just some symptoms of the condition people refer to as “depression.” There are several different types of depression, and clinical depression is considered a mental disorder. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), there is a section devoted to ...
Dysthymia was previously listed separately from chronic major depression in the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM-5), the tool that doctors and mental health professionals use to diagnose mental health conditions. However, the disorders have since been combined as of the f...
DSM-5 anxious distress specifier in patients with bipolar depression Background: DSM-5 introduced the anxious distress specifier in recognition of the significance of anxiety in patients who are depressed. Studies have supported the validity of the specifier in patients with major depressive disorder (...
Atypical features were incorporated into the American Psychiatric Association's(DSM-IV, 1994) as an illness specifier for major depression and dysthymia. The validity of depression with atypical features was supported by differences relative to depression with melancholic features in syndromal symptoms, ...
Signs and Symptoms of Depression If sadness alone isn’t a good gauge of depression, what is? According to theAmerican Psychiatric Association’s (APA)currentDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM-5), which is the diagnostic guide used by most mental health professionals, if yo...
Yolanda has taught college Psychology and Ethics, and has a doctorate of philosophy in counselor education and supervision. Did you know that depression affects an estimated five to eight percent of the U.S. population? Learn more about major depression, its symptoms, and causes. Then test your...
Depression is more than the sum score of its parts: individual DSM symptoms have different risk factors. Psychol Med, 1-10.Fried EI, Nesse RM, Zivin K, Guille C, Sen S (2013). Depression is more than the sum score of its parts: individual DSM symptoms have different risk factors. ...
The aim of this study was to examine the sex differences in the role of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression (MD), substance use disorders (SUDs), early sexual debut, and intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration as mediators in the association between ACEs and HIV/STIs....