This is a chronic form of depression, formerly known as dysthymia. Sometimes people call it “high functioning” or “smiling” depression. While symptoms aren’t as severe as MDD, they last fortwo years or longer. People with PDD might feel like they’ve always been depressed. (In cases o...
Introduction Major depressive disorder(MDD)manifests by persistent depressed mood,anhedonia,changes in sleep and appetite,fatigue,guilt as well as hopelessness and suicidality.1 MDD is quite prevalent and remains a leading cause of disease burden worldwide.2 Antidepressants in combination with psycho...
Research is not clear if Anxious Distress tends to be a trend in every episode for people prone to it, or if it may vary. Regardless, given the gravity of the matter, clinicians must be vigilant to the possibility of arising Anxious Distress amid their patients' MDD episodes, and evaluate...
The literature on the biological and phenomenologic presentation of major depressive disorder (MDD) in adolescents is reviewed and compared with that of depressed adults. Biological and psychosocial treatment approaches with adults and a... C Mueller,H Orvaschel - 《Journal of Affective Disorders》 ...
In somatic medicine, diagnostic terms often refer to the disease processes that are the causes of patients' symptoms. The language used in some clinical textbooks and health information resources suggests that this is also sometimes assumed to be the case with diagnoses in psychiatry. However, this...
Bipolar disorderis an illness that causes extreme changes in mood, thought, energy, and behavior. It is distinct from unipolar depression (also known as major depressive disorder, or MDD) because of its hallmark mood episode: mania (for bipolar 1 disorder) or hypomania (for bipolar 2). ...
the dominant symptom may be things like vague aches,dizziness, headaches,digestive problems, orback pain, according to areview published in theJournal of Clinical Psychiatry. Complicating matters is that it’s often hard to know whether depression is causing the physical symptoms, or if the physica...
First author Dr. Luca Sforzini from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London said: "So far there has been confusion about what is meant bytreatment-resistant depressionin research, practice and regulation, and the lack of a shared understanding is ...
In addition to treating depression, Lexapro and Prozac are sometimes used for other mental health conditions. Prozac is approved for the treatment of: Major depressive disorder (MDD) in children over the age of 8 Panic disorder Social anxiety disorder ...
theDSM-5, a.k.a. the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th edition),clinical depressionor simplydepressionis a complex disease and a hard-to-pin-down experience. The DSM-5 describes depression as either a “Major Depressive Disorder” (MDD) or “Persistent Depressive ...