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“depressive disorders,” “affective disorders,” or “depressive neuroses.

Mood Disorder

Most central indicators of a full major depressive episode are the _____

physical changes

Most commonly diagnosed and most severe depression is called a ______

major depressive episode

Extremely depressed mood state that lasts at least ______

2 weeks

Loss of energy and inability to engage in pleasurable activities or have any “fun”.

Anhedonia

Full criteria for a major depressive episode have been met throughout the preceding 2-year period.

With persistent major depressive episode

People with depression show ______ and ______

Dysfunctional reward processing and anhedonia

It involves an absence of movement (a stuporous state) or______, in which the muscles are waxy and semirigid, so a patient’s arms or legs remain in any position.

Catalepsy

The duration of a major depressive episode, if untreated

4 to 9 months

A less severe version of a manic episode that does not cause marked impairment in social or occupational functioning and need last only 4 days rather than a full week.

Hypomanic episode

The individuals find extreme pleasure in every activity.

Mania

This is a mood-incongruent hallucination or delusion.

Delusion of grandeur

This specifier can be applied to major depressive episodes whether they occur in the context of a persistent depressive order or not, and even to manic episodes, although it is rare—and rarer still in mania.

Catatonic features specifier.

An individual can experience manic symptoms but feel somewhat depressed or anxious at the same time or be depressed with a few symptoms of mania.

Mixed Features

Auditory hallucinations


mood congruent

Patients may also have somatic (physical) delusions, believing and Such hallucinations and delusions are called mood congruent.

Psychotic features specifiers

These episodes must have occurred for at least 2 years with no evidence of nonseasonal major depressive episodes occurring during that period of time.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

This specifier applies only if the full criteria for a major depressive episode have been met, whether in the context of a persistent depressive disorder or not

Melancholic features specifier.

______ exists if one polarity occurs during at least two-thirds of the person’s lifetime.

Predominant polarity

_______ requires specifying whether a predominantly manic or predominantly depressive episode is present and then noting if enough symptoms of the opposite polarity are present to meet the criteria.


Mixed Features

These instructions are here because these symptoms, or ______, may or may not accompany a depressive disorder

Specifiers

If someone you love has died—particularly if the death was unexpected and the person was a member of your immediate family—you may, after your initial reaction to the trauma, have experienced a number of depressive symptoms as well as anxiety, emotional numbness, and denial.

Acute Grief

_____ may be related to daily and seasonal changes in the production of melatonin, a hormone secreted by the pineal gland.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Only partially recover retaining some depressive symptoms


Partial Remission

The importance of ____________ makes the goals of treating mood disorders somewhat different from those for other psychological disorders

Temporal Course

This specifier applies to both depressive episodes, whether in the context of persistent depressive disorder or not. While most people with depression sleep less and lose their appetite, individuals with this specifier consistently oversleep and overeat during their depression and therefore gain weight, leading to a higher incidence of diabetes.

Atypical features specifier

If two or more major depressive episodes occurred and were separated by at least 2 months during which the individual was not depressed, the major depressive disorder is noted as being _____


Recurrent

In general, guidelines for treating and preventing peripartum depression include __________


cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy

Seeing or hearing things that aren’t there


Hallucinations

Best considered a disorder of mood as opposed to a physical disorder (such as an endocrine disorder)


Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

______ is often a chronic condition that waxes and wanes over time but seldom disappears.


Unipolar Depression

They believe that they are supernatural or supremely gifted


Delusions of grandeur

It shares many of the symptoms of major depressive disorder but differs in its course.


Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia)

Two most important factors that describe mood disorders are _________


Severity and Chronicity

Full criteria for a major depressive episode are not currently met, but there has been one or more major depressive episodes in at least the preceding 2 years.


With intermittent major depressive episodes, without current episode

The natural grieving process called ______ can also be closely related to depression


Acute Grief

It is defined as depressed mood that continues at least 2 years, during which the patient cannot be symptom free for more than 2 months at a time.


Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia)

The period of time just before and just after the birth. This specifier can apply to both major depressive and manic episodes.


Peripartum onset specifier

Strongly held but inaccurate beliefs.


Delusions

The most easily recognized mood disorder is ________, defined by the presence of depression and the absence of manic, or hypomanic episodes, before or during the disorder.


Major depressive disorder

It suffered from severe and sometimes incapacitating emotional reactions during the premenstrual period


Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

The finality of death and its consequences are acknowledged and the individual adjusts to the loss. New, bittersweet, but mostly positive memories of the deceased person that are no longer dominating or interfering with functioning are then incorporated into memory.

Integrated Grief

How persistent depressive disorder and major depressive disorder differ from each other?


Number of symptoms required, but mostly it is in the chronicity

Predominantly depressive episodes that have several (at least three) symptoms of mania as described above would meet this specifier, which applies to major depressive episodes both within major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder.


Mixed features specifier.

Individuals who have major depressive episodes and persistent depression with fewer symptoms are said to have _____


Double Depression.