Types Of Depression

By Alex Blaken


There are two types of melancholy 1) top depression that is composed of one or more best depressive episodes edged with the usual operation of the person 2) dysthymia, that's characterized through chronic depressive signs less serious chronic for several years.

The primary signs for diagnosing depression in a person are: depressed temper markedly faded hobby or excitement eating disorder sleep disorders psychomotor agitation or retardation, Fatigue or lack of energy self-deprecating feel of guilt or over the top faded talent to think or pay attention or indecisiveness emotions of death (in 60% of cases) Suicidal feelings (in 15% of instances)

Different signs of depression The depression is characterized through symptoms of mental behavioural and bodily.

Psychological symptoms depression sadness; The sadness of a depressed person has the following characteristics: it succeeds a state of gloom, it permeates the perception of present, past and future, it creates an inability to experience pleasure ( or anhedonia), it is comparable to that of a person from suffering the grief of a loved one: the world seems empty, nothing can get enough interest to alleviate this hardship, the future is more of hope, boredom, monotony, but also emotional pain also characterized this sadness, it is often associated with suicidal ideation (as the future seems hopeless for a depressed person). The sadness of a depressed person is a real pain that causes a deep moral suffering.

Cognitive Impairment: Depression is always accompanied by cognitive impairment. These disorders are functional and reversible (that is, they disappear when the depression disappears). They occur especially when an effort is given necessary attention. At one level, these cognitive disorders manifest as: difficulty in concentrating, or fatigue, disturbing example of reading. Judgement and reasoning are imbued with sadness, anxiety and pessimism. In the elderly, cognitive symptoms may go up an appearance of dementia with a bankrupt state of intellectual functions. Depression can induce a state of mental disorganization resembling Alzheimer's disease.

Behavioral signs: psychomotor slowing: a primary complaint is depressed may be fatigue, especially morning, paradoxically diminishing throughout the day. Paralysis of idea and action a few behaviors are feature of a severe depressive place clinophilia (inskill to rise, negligence, lack of initiative.

Dysphoria symptoms (sadness or pathological). It is a painful experience that covers the topic itself. Feelings of guilt, worthlessness. Psychic inhibition. Manifested by a slowing of intellectual processes, instinctual. Slowness in thinking, loss of hunger, sexual desires ... Motor inhibition. Anxiety. Fear of loss, abandonment. Manifested by an experience of loss, or impulsively in suicidal behavior. Somatic symptoms, biological and behavioral. Often isolated, making it difficult to diagnosis. We see for example sleep disorders with isolated tiredness at night, or waking very early accompanied by anxiety, dysomnies, insomnia (sleep disorders), digestive disorders, chronic constipation, the autonomic nervous system dysfunction (decreased heart rate, hypotension ...), language disorders (access to the file "communication and language ").

Actual signs the main somatic signs of depression are: - Loss of weight in terms of anorexia, lack of style tightness in the throat. - Sleep disorders: insomnia falling asleep, evening waking with nightmares, insomnia, overdue evening frequently related to suicidal feelings. Hypersomnia is another form of sleep disorder the patient unearths safe haven in a snooze that has misplaced its restorative value where the feeling of fatigue upon awakening. - Disorders of libido: reduced sexual desire impotence or frigidity. - Gastrointestinal Disorders: diarrhea or constipation, anorexia, stomach aches, furred situation of the gastrointestinal tract. - Cardiovascular: palpitations, flushing, hypotension and bradycardia in extreme instances




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