Month: February 2019

Reactive (psychogenic) depression is a wide range of disorders, the occurrence of which is associated with the adverse effects of psychosocial stress. The properties of mental injury most often acquire events (“blows of fate”), which,

Cyclothymia – unsharply expressed mood swings. For decades, this disease was “absorbed” by neurasthenia and hysteria. Comprehensive development of the doctrine of cyclothymia belongs. Cyclothymia is characterized by short cycles over several days, with inhibited

Among the clinical variants of depression is its mild, but stable form – dysthymia. In dysthymia, one can state a sullen mood, a feeling of unmotivated dislike for close people, constant internal discontent and irritation,

Affective bipolar disorder (F31) is earlier designated.The term manic-depressive psychosis (Krepelin E., 1921). In the 60s of the twentieth century, the term “bipolar” was introduced. According to the American classification DSM-VI, for the diagnosis of

Unlike past notions of depression as a triad of symptoms characterized by low mood, slow thinking, and retardation of movements, the diagnostic criteria for modern classification systems (ICD-10 and DSM-IV) include a fairly large range

The hidden course of depression, the tendency to hide under the mask of diseases of various internal organs is one of the most characteristic features of modern depression. Somatization of depression is especially characteristic of

Depression manifests itself in different ways, depending on the age of people. Until the mid-twentieth century, it was believed that children and adolescents did not suffer from it. However, later this point of view changed

According to K. Schneider (1932), obligate symptoms and facultative manifestations can be distinguished in the depressive state, and neuro-psychopathic-like manifestations, overvalued and delusional formations should be referred to the latter. A.B. Smulevich et al. (1970)

According to scientists, according to the binary typological model of depression, its psychopathological manifestations can be divided into positive and negative group of symptoms. Depending on the prevalence of a particular symptom, emit typical and

During the period of depression, suicidal thoughts, suicidal thoughts, which usually indicate the severity of depression, may arise due to the state of depression, depressed self-preservation instinct, intolerable mental pain. Suicide occurs in 15% of