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2. What Is Depression?
A Continuum
Normal Mood Lowering
Abnormal Mood Lowering
Abnormal mood lowering and loss of function
3. What Is Depression?
Depressive disorder
Pervasive
Persistent
Wide range of symptoms
4. What Is Depression?
Range of symptoms
Negative views
Worthlessness
Incapacity
Guilt
Sleep disturbance
Diurnal mood variation
Loss of energy
Impaired concentration
5. What Is Depression?
Impaired work ability
Poor social functioning
Psychomotor retardation
Pessimism
Better off dead
Thoughts of suicide
Suicide / action
Fear / belief of bodily illness
6. Understandability
No longer important.
Do not alter
treatment
thresholds.
Do not alter
treatment.
Reactive /
endogenous =
confine to bin.
8. What Is Depression? - Various Criteria.
Defeat Depression Campaign
Depressed mood or loss of pleasure
for at least 2 weeks. Plus 4 or more of:
Worthlessness or guilt
Impaired concentration
Loss of energy and fatigue
Thoughts of suicide
Loss or increase of appetite or weight
Insomnia or hypersomnia
Retardation or agitation
9. What Is Depression? - Various Criteria.
DSM – IV
Duration > 2 weeks Depressed mood or Marked loss of
interest or pleasure in normal activities
Plus 4 of:
i. Significant change in weight
ii. Significant change in sleep pattern
iii. Agitation or retardation
iv. Fatigue or loss of energy
v. Guilt / worthlessness
vi. Can’t concentrate or make decisions
vii. Thoughts of death or suicide
10. What Is Depression? - Various Criteria.
ICD – 10
Patient has low mood:
1) How bad is it and how long has it been going on?
2) Have you lost interest in things?
3) Are you more tired than usual?
If the answer is yes to these, then:
11. ICD – 10 (Continued)
4) Have you lost confidence in yourself?
5) Do you feel guilty about things?
6) Concentration difficulties?
7) Sleeping problems?
8) Change in appetite or weight?
9) Do you feel that life is not worth living any
more?
12. ICD – 10 (Continued)
♦ Mild.
Two criteria from 1-3 and 2 others.
♦ Moderate.
Two criteria from 1-3 and 3-4 others or a yes
to question 5.
♦ Severe.
Most of the criteria in severe form especially
questions 5 & 9.
13. Variants
Depressive episodes that
do not meet the criteria for
major depression.
Lifelong mild fluctuating
depression (Dysthymia).
Mixed states of above two.
Manic depression –
bipolar disorder.
14. Incidence Of Depression :
2000 Patients
100 - major
100 - minor
200 – sub-
clinical
Depression. In 50% of patients it
may not be acknowledged.
15. Numbers
10% of those diagnosed in primary care
are referred to psychiatrists.
1 in 1000 are admitted to hospital.
Lifetime incidence rates approach 33%.
5% of consulters have major
depression.
5% have milder depression.
A further 10% have some depressive
features.
16. Numbers
At least one patient per surgery will
have depressive symptoms of some
type.
Commoner in younger people including
children than thought in the past.
Men:women = 1:2.
Common in the physically ill.
50% recurrence rate.
12% become chronically depressed.
17. Why Missed?
50% are missed.
10% subsequently
recognised.
Of the 40% who remain
unrecognised:
Half remit
spontaneously.
Half remain depressed 6
months later.
18. Missed: Patient Factors
Present somatic symptoms.
Physical problems.
Stigma.
Beliefs about GP role and time to
listen.
Longstanding depression.
Less overt / typical.
Less insight.
19. Missed: Doctor Factors
More accurate doctors.
Make more eye contact.
Show less signs of hurry.
Are good listeners.
Ask questions with social and psychological
content.
Less accurate doctors.
Ask many closed questions.
Ask questions derived from theory rather than
what the patient just said.
20. Assessment
Severity
Duration
Social network
Views of self, world
and future
Suicidal thoughts
Past history
Factors affecting
symptoms
Biological features
21. Assessment Skills
Directive not closed questions
Picking up on verbal clues
“clarification”
Picking up on non-verbal clues and
using them
Empathy
Summarising
22. Treatment Contract
Key skills
Re-frame symptoms as
depression
Link to life events
Negotiate anti-
depressants if necessary
Problem list and
priorities
Set realistic time scale
Agree regular review
23. Explanations
Depressive illness is
clinically different
from the blues and
involves chemical
changes in the
brain.
Depressive illness
has characteristic
symptoms and
explain them.
25. Explanations
Anti-depressants
are not addictive or
habit forming.
Anti-depressants
take 2-3 weeks to
begin to work and
need to be taken for
4-6 months after the
full benefit is
obtained to prevent
relapse.
26. Explanations
Side effects occur
and are expected –
explain.
Drugs enable talking
therapy to work
better.
Regular review is
important and needs
to continue for at
least 6 months.
27. Explanations
Talking therapy can help solve
problems that are soluble, cope with
the insoluble and examine other
problems that seem unrealistic to the
patient or therapist.
Prevention of further trouble will be
considered when the treatment is
coming to an end.
28. References
Defeat Depression Campaign. The
Royal College of Psychiatrists. 1994.
Treating People with depression: a
practical guide for primary care. G
Wilkinson et al. Radcliffe 1998.
Recognition and management of
depression in general practice:
consensus statement. BMJ
1992;305:1198-202.