Mental Depress-Bipol.txt

• Reactive (exogenous) depression
• Major (unipolar) depression

• temporay lasting for a few weeks or even a few months
• feeling fades and the person returns to normal reoutines and outlook
• Occurs in reponses to some specific and identifiable psychosocial stressor (loss of a loved one, divorce, financial loss)

• Women - dianosed 2x as often as men
• Elderly - major depression often masked by physical illness, normal aging process
• Childern - signs of major depression include - poor performance at school, irritabliltiy, loss of appetitie, social withdraw, pretending to be sick

• Season affective disorder
• Postpartum depression
• Dysthymia
• Premenstral Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

believed to be due to decreased sunlight exposure during the winter months

usually develops 2 weeks to 6 months following birth of child: Presistant care of newborn, sleep deprivation, social stresses, hormonial changes)

• a chronic type of depression where a person's mood are regularly low
• usually not as extreme as other types of drepession
• Primary sysmtom - low, dark, sad mood nearly every day for a least 2 years

• Marked by severe depression, irritablity, and tension before menstration
• more severe than those seeen with PMS

• altered hormonal levels
• chronic diseases

• anxiety disorders
• eating disorders
• developmental disorders

• genetic predispostions
• social influences
• environmental influences
• medications
• biologial - insufficent monoamine neurotransmitters (dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin)

• tricyclic antidrepessants
• monoamine oxidase inhibitors
• Drugs to increase monoamine neurotrahnsmitter levels
• -dopamine agonists
• -dopamine reuptaek inhibitors (DRIs or DARIs)
• -Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
• -Selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (NRIs)
• -Serotonin/norephineephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)
• Psychotherapy
• Electroconvulsive shock therapy

• a mood disorder that causes quick mood swings between mania and depression
• affects men and women equally
• tends to run in families
• typically develops in late adolescence or early childhood

• energetic
• irritable mood
• not easilyt identified
• lasting days to months

• Genetic componet - autosomal chromosomes implicated; Y chromosomal abnormality
• Biochemical causes - altered neurotransmitter levels; substance abuse; hormones
• Environmental causes - illness, stress, diet and exercises

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