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Depression
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Depression is a mood disorder characterized by a set of cognitive symptoms, behavioral, somatic and affective that, taken together, are able to decrease a mild to severe mood and affect the "operation" of a person, as well as its ability to adapt to social life. Depression is not, as often thought, a simple lowering of mood, but a set of symptoms more or less complex that also substantially alter the way a person thinks, thinks and portrays herself, others and the outside world.

Depression is sometimes associated with suicidal ideation or self-destructive type, and almost always is accompanied by deficits in attention and concentration, insomnia, eating disorders, extreme physical exhaustion and unmotivated.

Classification

Depression is one of mood disorders, along with other disorders such as mania and bipolar disorder.
Depression can take the form of a single episode of transient (it will therefore be referred depressive episode) or a real disorder (depressive disorder will be discussed then.) The episode or depressive disorders are also characterized by a greater or lesser gravity . When the symptoms are likely to jeopardize the social adaptation, therefore we speak of major depressive disorder in order to distinguish it from minor depression to have no serious consequences and are often normal reactions to tragic events.

The major depressive episode is characterized by symptoms that last at least two weeks, causing a significant impairment of social functioning, occupational, or other important areas. Among the main symptoms include:

1. Depressed mood for most of the day, nearly every day, as reported by the subject or observed by others.
2. markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all (anhedonia), or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day.
3. significant weight loss without dieting, or significant weight gain, or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day.
4. Insomnia or hypersomnia almost every day.
5. agitation or retardation nearly every day.
6. fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate feelings of guilt nearly every day.
8. Decreased ability to think or concentrate, or difficulty making decisions, nearly every day.
9. Recurring thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without elaboration of specific plans, or a suicide attempt or the preparation of a specific plan for committing suicide.

To speak of major depressive episode requires the presence of at least 5 of the above symptoms.

In most cases, however, depression itself as major depressive disorder, a clinical course that is characterized by several major depressive episodes, in 50-60% of cases, a major depressive episode will be followed by further depressive episode, thus leading to the formation of a depressive disorder.

addition to other mood disorders are depression type of depression. Among the main

dysthymia (or dysthymic disorder): the presence of chronically depressed mood, for a period of at least two years. In this case or depressive symptoms, despite their chronic nature, are less severe and do not ever received a major depressive episode.
disorder with depressed mood: it is more a result of the stressors and typically occurs within three months before the event with severe psychological distress and social impairment. Usually eliminated the stress factor, the depression disappears within 6 months.
secondary depression: depression due to psychiatric illness or not, or drugs. Often, some diseases show early symptoms of mood changes, including: multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, brain tumor, Cushing's disease, systemic lupus erythematosus.
reactive depression: depression due to a triggering event such as bereavement, separation, failure, symptoms of which, however, proved too intense and prolonged than the underlying cause. Inside of the collar adjustment disorders can and reactions to grief.
masked depression: depression that occurs primarily with cognitive symptoms, behavioral or somatic, in spite of those affected. In reality they are simply not amplified affective aspects of depression.

Finally, among other mood disorders including depressive symptoms, one can cite bipolar disorder, ie diseases where there is alternation of major depressive episodes or manic or hypomanic episodes with children.

The classification is not limited simply to these few categories, since there are several subcategories of the types listed, or depression specific to the particular events, such as post-partum depression.