Signs And Symptoms Of Depression

By Alex Blaken


There are two types of depression: 1) Major depression that consists of one or more major depressive episodes edged with the usual operation of the individual. 2) dysthymia, which is characterized by chronic depressive symptoms, less severe, persistent for several years.

The main symptoms for diagnosing depression in a person are: Depressed mood Markedly diminished interest or pleasure Eating disorder Sleep disorders Psychomotor agitation or retardation, Fatigue or loss of energy Self-deprecating sense of guilt or excessive Diminished ability to think or concentrate or indecisiveness Thoughts of death (in 60% of cases) Suicidal thoughts (in 15% of cases)

Other Symptoms of Depression The depression is characterized by symptoms of psychological, behavioral and physical

Psychological symptoms depression unhappiness The sadness of a depressed person has the next functions: it succeeds a state of gloom, it permeates the perception of provide earlier and long term it creates an inability to enjoy pleasure ( or anhedonia), it is comparable to that of an individual from struggling the grief of a loved one the arena turns out empty, not anything can get sufficient interest to relieve this trouble the longer term is more of wish boredom, monotony, but in addition emotional pain additionally characterised this sadness, it's regularly associated with suicidal ideation (as the future turns out much less for a depressed individual). The sadness of a depressed individual is an actual ache that causes a deep function struggling.

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 symptoms: psychomotor slowing: A first complaint is depressed may be fatigue, especially morning, paradoxically diminishing during the day. Paralysis of thought and action: Some behaviors are characteristic of a severe depressive position: clinophilia (inability to rise), negligence, loss 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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