Depression

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Dependent personality disorder – Treatment

Adler suggests that treatment goals for all personality disorders include: preventing further deterioration, regaining an adaptive equilibrium, alleviating symptoms, restoring lost skills, and fostering improved adaptive capacity. Goals may not necessarily include characterological restructuring. The focus of treatment is adaptation, i.e., how individuals respond to the environment. Treatment interventions teach more adaptive methods of managing [...]

Inbreeding depression – Managing inbreeding depression

Introducing alleles from a different population can reverse inbreeding depression. Different populations of the same species have different deleterious traits, and therefore their crossbreeding will not result in homozygosity in most loci in the offspring. This is known as outbreeding enhancement, practiced by conservation managers and zoo captive breeders to prevent homozygosity. However, intermixing two [...]

Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – Diagnosis

The diagnosis of ADHD in adults is entirely a clinical one, which contributes to controversy. It requires retrospectively establishing whether the symptoms were also present in childhood, even if not previously recognized. There is no objective “test” that diagnoses ADHD. Rather, it is a combination of a careful history of symptoms up to early childhood, [...]

Child depression – Introduction

Child depression is a mental illness in which a child feels worthless and is generally sad for a long time each day. About 5 percent of children and adolescents suffer from depression at any given time. Child depression can occur in both small children and teens. The signs are generally the same as adult depression. [...]

Atypical depression – Introduction

Atypical depression (AD) is a subtype of dysthymia and major depression, sharing many of the symptoms of both, but also being characterized by mood reactivity — being able to experience improved mood in response to positive events. In contrast, sufferers of “melancholic” depression generally cannot experience positive moods, even when good things happen. Additionally, atypical [...]

Chronic fatigue syndrome – Introduction

Сhronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is the most common name given to a variably debilitating disorder or disorders generally defined by persistent fatigue unrelated to exertion, not substantially relieved by rest and accompanied by the presence of other specific symptoms for a minimum of six months. The disorder may also be referred to as post-viral fatigue [...]

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry – Introduction

”The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry” is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which focuses on clinical psychiatry, especially depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, addiction, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, as well as several other mental disorders. It is the official journal of the American Society for Clinical Psychopharmacology. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Journal of Clinical [...]

Depression (mood) – Illnesses featuring depression

Depression

A number of psychiatric syndromes feature depressed mood as a main symptom. Mood disorders are a group of disorders considered to be primary disturbances of mood. Within them, major depressive disorder (MDD), commonly called major depression, or clinical depression, is a condition where a person has two or more discrete major depressive episodes. Dysthymia is [...]

No Depression in Heaven – Introduction

Depression

No Depression in Heaven” (or simply “No Depression”) is a song that was first recorded by the original Carter Family in 1936 during the Great Depression in the United States. Although A.P. Carter has frequently been credited as the author, some sources attribute the song to James David Vaughan. Over the years the song has [...]

Fatigue (medical) – Differential diagnosis

Arthritis And Exercise

The majority of people who have fatigue do not have an underlying cause discovered after a year with the condition. In those who do have a possible diagnosis musculoskeletal (19.4%) and psychological problems (16.5%) are the most common. Definitive physical conditions were only found in 8.2%. Fatigue is typically the result of working, mental stress, [...]









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