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Week 5 - Mood Disorders and Suicide

The document provides an overview of mood disorders, including definitions and classifications of various mood episodes such as manic, hypomanic, and depressive episodes. It discusses the structure of mood disorders, including unipolar and bipolar disorders, along with additional specifiers for major depressive disorder and bipolar disorders. The document also outlines biological, psychological, and social factors contributing to mood disorders, as well as treatment considerations and risk factors for suicide.

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Week 5 - Mood Disorders and Suicide

The document provides an overview of mood disorders, including definitions and classifications of various mood episodes such as manic, hypomanic, and depressive episodes. It discusses the structure of mood disorders, including unipolar and bipolar disorders, along with additional specifiers for major depressive disorder and bipolar disorders. The document also outlines biological, psychological, and social factors contributing to mood disorders, as well as treatment considerations and risk factors for suicide.

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Understanding & Defining Mood Manic Episode

Disorder


➢ Flight of Ideas
AN OVERVIEW OF DEPRESSION AND MANIA


Hypomanic Episode

Mood Episodes


Major Depressive Episode

THE STRUCTURE OF MOOD DISORDER

Unipolar Mood Disorder


Cognitive Symptoms

Disturbed Physical Function →

Bipolar Mood Disorder


➢ general
loss of interest in things anhedonia

➢ DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS

Major Depressive Disorder



➢ Recurrent


➢ Median distress or disability

Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)


➢ Duration & demographics

➢ ➢ Distress or disability


BIPOLAR DISORDERS

➢ T
➢ Duration distress or
disability
➢ mild, moderate, severe
Bipolar I
→ Early Onset
→ Late Onset

Double Depression Bipolar II

➢ ➢


Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

➢ Cyclothymic Disorder (CD)

➢ Duration
distress or
disability ➢

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder


➢ Duration
distress or disability
ADDITIONAL SPECIFIERS FOR MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER
AND BIPOLAR DISORDERS
[1] Anxious Distress Specifier
Specifier (Severity)

Mild
Atypical Features Specifier

Moderate
Melancholic Features Specifier

Severe

Catatonic Features Specifier


Specifier (Remission)

In partial remission:
Stupor Stereotypy

Catalepsy Agitation

In full remission: Waxy flexibility

Grimacing
Mutism
Other Specifiers

Negativism
➢ Echolalia

Echopraxia
Posturing

➢ Mannerism

➢ Mixed Features Specifier


Peripartum Onset Specifier ➢ Ultra-Ultra-Rapid Cycle

➢ Baby Blues

➢ Peripartum Depression

Psychotic Features Specifier

➢ Mood Congruent

➢ Mood Incongruent

Seasonal Pattern Specifier

Seasonal Affective
Disorder (SAD).
Rapid-Cycling Specifier

➢ Rapid Mood Switching Causes of Mood Disorder

Equifinality
➢ Ultra-Rapid Cycle
BIOLOGICAL DIMENSION

Familial & Genetic Influences ➢ Stress Hypothesis


Initial Reaction →

adrenal medulla →

➢ 
Secondary Reaction – Stimulation of HPA Axis
→ corticotropin-releasing
hormone (CRH) →



Depression and Anxiety: Same Genes? → adrenocorticotropic hormone
(ACTH) →




→ →


➢ →

Neurotransmitter System → negative feedback mechanism



➢ Serotonin



HPA Axis Dysfunction
➢ Permissive Hypothesis →

Endocrine System. Sleep and Circadian Rhythm


PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION Global

Stressful Life Events



➢ Diathesis-Stress Model of Psychopathology

Stress & Depression.


Negative Cognitive Style

➢ ➢

➢ ➢


Arbitrary Inferences

Stress & Bipolar Disorders


Overgeneralization

➢ Depressive Cognitive Triads



➢ Negative Schema


Learned Helplessness

→ Self-Blame Schema

➢ Learned Helplessness Theory of Depression → Negative Self-Evaluation Schema


Internal

Stable


→ ➢

Cognitive Vulnerability for Depression: An Integration →



SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS

Marital Relations →


Social Support



Mood Disorder in Women


AN INTEGRATIVE THEORY


GBV → Gesturers


GPV

Temperament of Neuroticism or Negative Affect


CAUSES

Past Conceptions

Altruistic Suicide

Suicide
Egoistic Suicide

Anomic Suicide

Fatalistic Suicide

Psychoanalytic

→ ➢



Suicidal Ideation
RISK FACTOR

Suicidal Plans Family History

Suicidal Attempts
Neurobiology
→ Attempters
➢ IS SUICIDE CONTAGIOUS?

Existing Psychological Disorders and Other Psychological ➢


Risk Factors →

➢ Interpersonal Theory of Suicide ➢

TREATMENT

Stressful Life Events. ➢

“Has there been any time recently when you’ve


thought that life wasn’t worth living or had some
thoughts about hurting yourself or possibly killing
yourself?”

Suicidal Desire

Suicidal Intent

Suicidal Capability

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