Introduction What is Postpartum Depression Having a baby should be one of the happiest and most important events in a woman’s life. However‚ although life with a new baby can be both thrilling and rewarding‚ it can also be a difficult and quite stressful task. Most women make the transition without great difficulty‚ yet some women experience considerable complexity that may manifest itself as a postpartum psychiatric disorder (O’hara‚ Hoffman‚ Philips‚ & Wright‚ 1992). Many physical and emotional
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“Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction‚it is a functioning phenomenon.It stops you cold‚sets you down and makes you miserable¨.(James Hileman). Teen depression is a serious mental health problem that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest in activities. Some issues that persist to affect it include peer pressure‚ academic expectations and body changes these things can bring a lot of ups and downs for some those feelings stay longer than others some of those feelings are
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Bipolar disorder is one of the most fascinating disorders to me due to its complexity. I remember hearing people stating “you are bipolar” as a joke due to someone’s quick mood shift. As I started learning about it‚ I started o understand that bipolar is deeper than one moment to the next mood swings and that it actually can last elongated periods of time. I started to understand that these alternating states between mania and depression often happen months apart‚ I also started to understand the
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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
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Major Depression Disorder Everyone ever had a feeling of sadness‚ stress and depress. However‚ there feeling are often gone in brief period. But if these feeling are longer than they should be‚ Maybe it because of depression. Depression is a general illness that affect to your mood‚ how you think and act in negative way. In this essay we will describe you about one type of depression. It calls Major Depression Disorder. Patient with this type of depression usually have a depress mood more than two
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Psychopathology Psychopathology is the studying of abnormal behaviour. It addresses a wide range of mental‚ emotional and behavioural problems and encompasses research into many different aspects such as classification‚ diagnosis‚ aetiology (cause of disease)‚ prevention and treatment. Study depends on the paradigm. – psycho uses childhood‚ bio uses genetic markers. Usually eclectic approach.Split into two models‚ medical and psychological Criteria differs in a mental diagnostic so they have differences
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YOUR KEY MESSAGE: “If you are feeling sad‚ anxious‚ miserable‚ or have lost interest in doing things‚ then you might have depression. Going through tests for depression is a helpful first step that will help you and your doctor decide the next steps you need to take in order to live your life well.” WHAT TO ASK PEOPLE ABOUT DEPRESSION What do you think or feel about depression? What do you know about it? What was your experience of getting tested for depression? WHAT TO SAY ABOUT DEPRESSION
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Bi-polar disorder is brain/mood disorder that’s associated with episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs. Bipolar disorder is a class that includes three different conditions bipolar I‚ bipolar II and cyclothymic disorder. People with bipolar I disorder has had at least one manic episode in his or her life. A manic episode is a Most people with bipolar I disorder also endure episodes of depression. Other persons with bipolar II suffer from mild manic and major depressive
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Introduction Bipolar disorder is a disorder associated with episodes of mood swings going from depressive lows to manic highs. There is a controversy with bipolar disorder in youth causing difficulty in diagnosing. However‚ bipolar disorder is considered to be a repetitive familial disorder that occurs in 1-3% of youth‚ but mainly in adolescents prevalence “ The prevalence of the Bp spectrum disorders in youth is on average 1.8% and for Bp-1 1.2% with rates of BP-1 being consistent amoung most
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The Talmud tells a midrash about what it was like for Adam and Eve during their first year out of the Garden of Eden. As the legend goes‚ just as soon as they began to get used to their lives‚ they noticed that the days were getting progressively shorter. Adam and Eve began to worry that darkness was swallowing the light‚ and that the earth would eventually return to its primordial state of chaos and disorder. As they sank more into a state of depression‚ Adam and Eve believed that darkness would
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