Peripartum Depression Symptoms Quiz

Mood is an enduring feeling or disposition to respond emotionally that may last for hours, days, or weeks, without the person knowing what prompted the state.

Mood is an enduring feeling, affect encompasses a broad range of feelings including mood and emotions, while emotions are intense, short-term feelings typically directed at a source.

A major depressive episode is characterized by an extremely depressed mood state lasting at least 2 weeks, cognitive symptoms like feelings of worthlessness, indecisiveness, and disturbed physical functions like altered sleeping patterns, changes in appetite, or loss of energy.

<p>Emotions in mood disorders are intense feelings that are short-term and typically directed at a source, accompanied by indicative facial expressions and body language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>During a major depressive episode, individuals experience a loss of interest in things and an inability to derive pleasure from life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cognitive symptoms of a major depressive episode include feelings of worthlessness and indecisiveness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increased activity or energy level</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1 week</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Poor judgment, argumentative, rapid speech, distractibility, excessive tasks, decreased need for sleep, delusions, hallucinations, reckless behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>4 days</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Diagnosis made on individuals who experience either depression or mania because their mood remains at one 'pole' of the usual depression-mania continuum.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alternating between depression and mania.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Experiencing manic symptoms while feeling somewhat depressed or anxious, or being depressed with few symptoms of mania.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If 2 or more major depressive episodes occurred and were separated by at least 2 months during which the individual was not depressed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hallucinations and delusions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Presence and severity of accompanying anxiety, which can include comorbid anxiety disorders or anxiety symptoms that do not meet all criteria for disorders.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>circle spirit</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>at least 2 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>late adolescence or early adulthood</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>not severe enough to warrant a diagnosis of bipolar disorder</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>cyclothymic disorder</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>numerous episodes of hypomanic symptoms and periods of mild depressive symptoms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Peripartum</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Seasonal Pattern Specifier</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rapid decline in reproductive hormones</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Double Depression</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increased production of melatonin</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Phototherapy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Postpartum Depression</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agoraphobia is the fear of places and situations from which it may be difficult to escape, and women are more likely to develop it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nocturnal panic attacks occur during the deepest stage of sleep and individuals wake up remembering the event. Sleep terrors, on the other hand, happen during the sleepwalking stage, with children having no memory of the event in the morning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Isolated sleep paralysis occurs during the transition between sleep and waking, where individuals are unable to move and experience terror resembling a panic attack. It is caused by REM sleep spilling over into the waking cycle.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Specific phobia is an irrational fear of a particular object or situation that significantly interferes with an individual's ability to function. It leads to high levels of fear and physiological arousal when encountering the phobic object.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blood-injection-injury phobia involves a fear of blood, injury, or injections that can lead to a drop in blood pressure and a tendency to faint. It runs strongly in families and causes an increase in heart rate and blood pressure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Situational phobia is characterized by fear of public transportation or enclosed spaces, while claustrophobia specifically involves fear of small, enclosed places. Individuals with situational phobia do not experience panic attacks outside of their phobic context.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Panic attacks during delta wave sleep occur during the deepest stage of sleep and individuals wake up remembering the event. Sleep apnea, on the other hand, involves interruptions in breathing during sleep, which may feel like suffocation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blood-injection-injury phobia typically has an onset around 9 years of age and runs strongly in families. People with this phobia inherit a strong vasovagal response to blood, injury, or injections.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Specific phobia significantly affects an individual's lifestyle by causing distress, fear, and physiological arousal when encountering the phobic stimuli. It may lead to avoidance behaviors and interference with daily functioning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Isolated sleep paralysis occurs during the transition between sleep and waking, where individuals are unable to move and experience terror resembling a panic attack. Sleep terrors, on the other hand, occur during the sleepwalking stage, with children having no memory of the event in the morning.</p> Signup and view all the answers