2. DEPRESSION
Depression is a psychiatric diagnosis that
describes a mood disorder, transient or
permanent, characterized by feelings of
depression, unhappiness and guilt as well
as causing a total or partial inability to enjoy
things and events of everyday life
3. The principal types of depression
are:
Major Depressive Disorder
Dysthymic disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Bipolar Depression
4. Other types of depression
Psychotic depression, which occurs when a
severe depressive illness is accompanied by some
form of psychosis, such as a break with
reality, hallucinations, and delusions.
Postpartum depression, which is diagnosed if a
woman who has recently given birth suffer an
episode of major depression within the first month
after birth. It is estimated that 10 to 15 percent of
women experience postpartum depression after
giving birth.
5. What diseases coexist with
depression?
Depression often coexists with other illnesses.
These diseases can occur before the
depression, cause it, and / or result of this.
Anxiety disorders, such as PTSD, obsessivecompulsive disorder, panic disorder, social phobia
Abuse or dependence on alcohol or other
substances
Heart disease, stroke, cancer, HIV /
AIDS, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease
6. What causes depression?
There is no single known cause of depression.
Rather, this appears to result from a combination of
genetic, biochemical, and psychological.
Research indicates that depressive illnesses are
disorders of the brain. Technologies for imaging the
brain, such as MRI, have shown that the brains of
people with depression look different than those
who do not suffer
8. SCHIZOPHRENIA
It is a complex mental disorder that hinders:
Establish the difference between what is real and
unreal.
Think clearly.
Have normal emotional responses.
To act normally in social situations.
It is a brain disorder that impairs the ability of people in
very different psychological aspects as
thought, perception, emotion or desire, i.e, loss of
contact with
reality, hallucinations, delusions, abnormal
thinking, and impaired social and occupational
functioning
9. CAUSES
The origin of schizophrenia is not known with
certainty. However, in recent years there have been
some advances that allow point to various factors
responsible for the disorder:
Early alterations of brain development.
Genetic predisposition
Alterations in brain substances
Infections complications of pregnancy and
childbirth
10. SYMPTOMS
The most characteristic symptoms of the disease are:
Delusions: misconceptions which the patient
believes
Hallucinations: perceiving something that does
not exist.
Disorders of thought: the language of the patient
becomes incomprehensible and fluidity is altered.
Impaired sense of self: the person feels that her
body is changing, he sees himself as weird.
Deterioration of emotions: the emotions becomes
poorer. You can get to the absence of feelings
Isolation: patients withdraw into themselves and
their inner world
11. TYPES OF
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Paranoid Schizophrenia is the most common
subtype. Dominated by delusions of persecution or
harm other people towards the patient.
Hebephrenic schizophrenia: abnormalities in her
emotions dominate
Catatonic schizophrenia: is characterized by
motor abnormalities, usually persistent
immobility, but can alternate with acute
agitation, repetitive movements or may occur.
Undifferentiated Schizophrenia is a serious
mental illness. It is a brain disorder that impairs the
ability of people in a variety of psychological
aspects such as thinking, perception, emotions or
will
