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Chad Smith
Mr. Jocham
Ailment Project
5/20/11
Major Depressive Disorder
Major depressive disorder is a mental disorder characterized by an all encompassing low mood followed by low self-esteem , and by loss of pleasure or interest in enjoyable activities.
Definition
• This disorder is a disabling condition which mostly affects an individual’s family, work, and your sleeping and eating pattern.
• Over 3% of U.S. citizens have committed suicide as a result of major depressive disorder.
The EFX of M.M.D
• Usually people with depression are expected to have a shorter life expectancy because of suicide and greater susceptibility to the disorder.
• Researchers are still trying to determine if medication facilitates suicide.
The EFX of M.M.D.(Cont’d.)
• Causes of M.M.D. include psychological, psycho-social, hereditary, biological, and evolutionary factors
Causes
• The three common treatments for M.M.D. include medication, psychotherapy, and electroconvulsive therapy.
Treatments
• Antidepressants are the most common medication used in treating major depressive disorder
Medication
• This is delivered to individuals suffering from this by psychotherapists, clinical social workers, psychiatrists, counselors, and other medical professionals pertaining to this disorder
• Psychotherapy has shown to be success amongst older people with the disorder.
Psychotherapy
• This is a procedure in which pulses of electricity are sent to the brain to induce a seizure while the patient is on anesthesia.
• This usually has a quicker effect than most antidepressant therapies
Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Melancholic depression- Loss of pleasure in most normal activities
• Atypical depression- Mood reactivity which includes significant weight gain, increased sleeping pattern, and loss of social skills.
• Catatonic depression- Severe depression that involves disturbances of motor behavior, but it’s mostly rare.
• Postpartum depression- The intense disabling depression that affects women after giving birth.
• Seasonal depression- Depression that involves depressive episodes that occur in autumn or winter, but starts to ease during spring.
Subtypes
• Most major depressive episodes tend to ease and resolve eventually over time with or without having treatment.
Prognosis
It’s a rainy day today and I’m in my house look out the window with sorrow just waiting for the sky to clear.
“Rain, rain, go away!”
I always feel sorry for myself, but today it has gotten worse.
“Oh, woe is me”
My home is my comfort zone, but it also feels like solitary confinement because I feel alone and out of touch with the “outside world”.
Isolation
It’s just that I’m ashamed of myself and I don’t want anybody to look at my ugly face.
“It’s not that I’m bored with school…”
• I feel inferior to others and I practically let people walk over me like a mat.
I’m weak
• I feel like my appetite has increased and now I find myself eating every single minute.
• I mostly gorge myself with junk food like ice cream, chocolate, and cake.
Eat! Eat! Eat!
• I don’t really enjoy all the normal activities I used to do.
Loss of Interest
• Today this morning, I would usually wake up at eight in the morning, but now it’s two in the afternoon and I still haven’t woken up.
“I just wanna sleep”
• When I step out of class, everybody starts laughing at me and that just worsens my day in school.
“Stop Laughing at me”
• I feel that I’m so ugly that I need to put a brown paper bag over my head.
“Brown paper bag”
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