PSYCHOLOGY OF DEPRESSION

1. DEPRESSION &SUICIDE MGT SHORT COURSE

2. General symptoms
Trouble with concentration and
memory.
Feelings of guilt about
inconsequential events.
Insomnia or excessive sleepiness.
Feelings of hopelessness and
worthlessness.
Withdrawal from activities and
interests.
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3. General symptoms
Decreased interactions with family
and friends.
Decreased work productivity.
Decreased relationship with
coworkers.
Changes in bowel habits.
Weight loss or gain.
Decreased libido (sexual drive).
Slowed speech and/or motor
activity.
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4. Endogenous Depression
Cluster Symptoms
A typical symptom cluster for endogenous
depression includes:
• Retardation of thought and motion (thinks
in "slow motion").
• Substantial weight loss due to very poor
appetite.
• Feeling that depression "crept upon him"
and "came out of the blue."
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5. Endogenous Depression
Cluster Symptoms(contd)
• Feeling that depression "crept upon
him" and "came out of the blue."
• Wakes very early in the morning and
can't get back to sleep.
• Feels worse in the morning and
improves as the day goes on.
• Does not react to the environment.
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6. Endogenous Depression
Cluster Symptoms(contd)
• Wakes very early in the morning and
can't get back to sleep.
• Feels worse in the morning and
improves as the day goes on.
• Does not react to the environment.
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7. Exogenous Depression
Cluster Symptoms
A typical symptom cluster for
exogenous depression includes:
• Precipitating event.
• Trouble getting to sleep at night.
• Feeling fine in the morning and
getting worse as the day goes on.
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8. Exogenous Depression
Cluster Symptoms(contd)
• Weight loss of less than 10
pounds.
• Reaction to the environment--if
the person is with an "up" crowd,
he will seem to come out of his
depression for a while.
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9. LEVELS OF DEPRESSION

10. INTRODUCTION
 The unitary or single-disorder position usually is linked to
the work of Aubrey Lewis in England in the 1930s (Beck,
1967).
 Lewis is described as
 introducing the spectrum conception to the study of
depression, which holds that
 the different presentations of depression, in terms of
scope and severity, are
 merely varying surface manifestations of a continuous,
single, underlying
 disorder.

11.  The binary or two-disorder position can be traced to the
work of
 Kraepelin (1921), who identified two distinct and
separate types of depression,
 which he named manic-depressive illness, and
psychogenic depression.