Continuation of Depression disorders
Continuation of Depression disorders
- Mild depression
- Symptoms of mild depression are identified by clinicians as those associated with normal grieving.
- Affective: Anger, anxiety
- Behavioral: Tearful, regression
- Cognitive: Preoccupied with loss
- Physiological: anorexia, insomnia
- Symptoms of mild depression are identified by clinicians as those associated with normal grieving.
- Moderate depression
- Symptoms associated with dysthymic disorder
- Affective: Helpless, powerless
- Behavioral: Slowed physical movements, slumped posture, limited verbalization
- Cognitive: Retarded thinking processes, difficulty
with concentration - Physiological: Anorexia or overeating, sleep disturbance, headaches
- Symptoms associated with dysthymic disorder
- Severe depression
- Includes symptoms of major depressive disorder and bipolar depression
- Affective: feelings of total despair, worthlessness,
flat affect - Behavioral: psychomotor retardation, curled-up position, absence of communication
- Cognitive: prevalent delusional thinking, with delusions of persecution and somatic delusions; confusion; suicidal thoughts
- Physiological: a general slow-down of the entire body
- Affective: feelings of total despair, worthlessness,
- Includes symptoms of major depressive disorder and bipolar depression