Depression

1. What is the common link in all these
famous personalities?

3. Presented by: Vaishnavi Dhok
3rd year
Guided by : Dr. Nupura Vibhute

4. CONTENT
 What is depression?
 Signs and symptoms of depression
 Types of depression
 Facts about depression
 Depression from dental practice perspective
 Depression and oral health
 Treatment
 Dealing and helping depressed one

6. Depression is a common mental disorder that
presents with depressed mood , loss of interest
or pleasure, decreased energy, feeling of guilty
or low self-worth , disturbed sleep or appetite
and poor concentration.
- WHO 2016
What is Depression?

7. Depression vs Sadness
 Feeling of guilty or low
self-worth
 It affects someone’s
mood, causes them to
feel drained, and
causes someone to
feel down for weeks /
months.
 Feeling of sorrow or
unhappiness.
 Sadness doesn't last
very long, it can be
something that makes
you sad that day and
then you eventually get
over it.
Depression Sadness

8. Sign and symptoms
Other physical symptoms Thoughts of death
and suicide
Loss of interest Loss of appetite
Insomnia
Sad, empty,
nervous
Helpless, hopeless,
lonely
Worthless, guilty

9. Types of Depression
Major Depression
Persistent depressive disorder
Psychotic depression
Postpartum depression
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Bipolar Disorder

10. Facts about depression
Depression will be
the second largest
killer by 2020
after heart
disease.

11. gender.
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12. Yes! Depression leads to
suicide…

14. Coming to our profession

15. Depression and dentistry
 STUDIES AND STATISTICS
 The suicide rate of dentists is more than twice
the rate of the general population and almost
three times higher than that of other white collar
workers.
 Emotional illness ranks third in order of
frequency of health problems amongst dentists,
while in the general population it ranks tenth.

16.  Coronary disease and high blood pressure
are over 25% more prevalent among dentists
than in the general population.
 Dentists suffer psycho-neurotic disorders at a
rate of 2 1/2 times greater than physicians.
 The 1 out of 10 killer of dentists is stress-
related cardiovascular disease.

17. Why dentists are depressed?
Confinement Isolation
Economic Pressure

18. Time Pressure
Compromise treatment
frustration
Patients anxiety Stress of perfection

19. Depressed
person
Neglect oral health
Not enthusiast
for corrective
measures
 Periodontitis
 Rampant dental
caries
 Chronic facial
pain
 Bad breath
 TMJ disorders
Poor
esthetics

20. Treatment
Antidepressant drugs
Talk therapy (“PSYCHOTHERAPY”)
Computer and/or internet-based therapies
Electroconvulsive therapy and other brain
stimulation therapies
Exercise is medicine

21. Beyond treatment…
 Don’t expect too much of yourself until
your energy and mood improve
 Set realistic goals for yourself
 Try to spend time with other people
 Avoid extra stress and big changes
 Continue to educate yourself about
depression

23. Dealing with a depressed one:
• Be empathic and understanding
• Avoid critical or shaming statements
• Don’t argue with them
• Don’t insist
• Don’t react with anger
• Try not to blame them

24. Helping the depressed one…
• Offer emotional support, understanding,
patience, and encouragement
• Talk to him or her, and listen carefully
• Never ignore comments about suicide
• Offer emotional support, understanding,
patience, and encouragement

25. They will smile again…

27. REFERENCES
 Andrews G, Cuijpers P, Craske MG, McEvoy P, Titov N. Computer
therapy for the anxiety and depressive disorders is effective,
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 ADA Bureau of Public Information News Release. Temple University
School of Dentistry Study of dentist suicide rates, Jan. 31, 199
 Simon GE, VonKorff M. Suicide mortality among patients treated for
depression in an insured population. Am J Epidemiol. 1998;147:155–
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 Depression Guideline Panel. Depression in primary care: Detection
and Diagnosis Clinical Practice Guideline: Number 5 AHCPR
Publication No 93-0550.