Premenstrual Dysphoritic Disorder

The following is a case study of a female client, who is suffering from depression, 4a low, sad state in which life seems dark and its challenges overwhelming (Comer pg. 171). There are many symptoms to this disorder including general pain, headaches, constipation, sleep less, and eat less prior to the disorder. The DSM-5 is an episode described to be two or more weeks that have five symptoms of depression. The DSM- 5 lists different types of depression such as depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (Comer pg. 171). The major depressive disorder is at least two years and dysthymic disorder is less than that. The premenstrual dysphoric disorder is in women who show symptoms before a menstruation. The client
The client and her husband just split up. They have three children and he doesn’t want to take responsibility for them. He is not doing anything to help her or the kids and has taken the car for unknown reasons. The client was depressed after her mother’s death and mad at her father for continuing to do what he does. Now that her husband walked out, she has many stresses that led to her depression. In the biological approach, can work together with other treatment programs. “This approach argues that mental disorders are related to the physical structure and functioning of the brain” (Mcleod, 2008). This approach investigates the nervous system and hormones. It also examines how the brain function that can affect behavior. This method uses prescription drugs to treat the disorders. The biological approach would attribute her depression to a chemical imbalance in the brain. Growing up she experienced many hardships and the stress may have caused the depression. The psychodynamic approach looks at the result of conflict from something in their
The phenomenology concludes that people have free will and how they exercise that is up to them. The sociocultural approach is attempting to think the way other people do. It is how people define themselves as individuals. It is influenced on society through our learning process. It explains how children are shaped into the world with their own processing skills. In this client, it explains how society has led to her depression. Through her rough childhood to her unstable adult life. It explains that if the hardships she had as a child were changed then maybe she wouldn’t be unstable as an adult. This relates to her problems because she sees herself as worthless and having a low self-esteem. Those combinations could have led to depression alone without adding all the negative thoughts from childhood. Her childhood alone could have led to her depression in adult years. Using the way other people think, they would think that she is depressed because her boyfriend left her. They would make a lot of assumptions without getting to the bottom first. May people before conducting research on depression would have made the same