Sentences with phrase «depressive illness has»

The current global crisis of depressive illness has a simple root cause: a failure of treatment.

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She has explored bipolar disorder and her own experience of it in two previous books: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness and Touched with Fire: Manic - Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament.

As a psychiatrist I have seen many people who are incapable of valuing their existence as a result of depressive illness, and such philosophies are both lethal and widely ascribed to.

There is a history of depressive illness and situational depression in my family too, so before I had my baby I looked for ways to combat this.

Myo - inositol, in very high doses, has also been shown to help with the treatment of obsessive - compulsive disorder and depression (Brink, Viljoen, deKock, Stein, & Harvey, 2004), which may be of interest to women who bear the dual suffering of lactation difficulty and depressive illness.

Few years ago Campbell was all about getting a safe seat or a seat he would win, and then labour seemingly rejected this, down he goes with a depressive illness now labour wants him again he's better.

People with these illnesses live with depressive or manic symptoms for about 50 per cent of the time, experience a decreased quality of life and have an expected life span of 10 - 15 years shorter than that of the general population.

Study participants included 70 individuals with severe mental illness (bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder) or U.S. military veterans who had a diagnosis of PTSD and a mood or psychotic disorder.

About 5.7 million American adults have bipolar disorder, which also is called manic - depressive illness.

The nature of my illness means that though I tend to function fairly well on a day to day basis, despite my anxiety, I have unpredictable and bad depressive episodes.

I have no doubt the author accurately portrays the manic depressive illness of her father in the 1940's and the horrendous treatment he was given as evidenced by his writings which served as the basis of this book.

Explicitly excluding depressive illness from those conditions which would qualify for doctor assisted suicide would go a long way towards addressing the hyperbolic claims by some that a deluge of «death doctors» will descend on Canada's mentally ill.

The tribunal ruled in favour of Peter Mokua Gichuru's claim that he was discriminated against as a result of a question in the law society's articling application that asked: «Have you ever been treated for schizophrenia, paranoia, or a mood disorder described as a major affective illness, bipolar mood disorder, or manic depressive illness?»

One expert had said the claimant had suffered post traumatic stress disorder and a depressive illness that were both chronic.

He had suffered a severe depressive illness and his employment as an airline pilot had been suspended.

In this case a prosecution witness, whose evidence would be fatal to the defendant, proffered the following medical note: «The above patient of mine has a past history of a depressive illness with panic attacks.

In Scottish and Southern Energy plc v Mackay, the employer was held not to have breached its responsibilities under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 for failing to explore satisfactorily with its employee — an electrician suffering a debilitating depressive illness — his commitment to employment elsewhere in the company.

Maternal chronic illness is one of several chronic stressors that have been associated with mothers» depressive symptoms.1, 3

We computed effect sizes d for each study as the difference in depressive symptoms between the sample with chronic illness and the control sample divided by the pooled SD.

In the first research question we ask whether children and adolescents with chronic physical illnesses have elevated levels of depressive symptoms, and whether this would differ between illnesses.

Other authors have suggested that certain illness characteristics or parameters may be more related to depressive symptoms, such as neurologically related illnesses (e.g., epilepsy; Plioplys, 2003), characteristics of illnesses that have social implications (e.g., cosmetic effects, e.g., cleft lip; De Sousa, Devare, & Ghanshani, 2009), and chronic pain (Eccleston, Crombez, Scotford, Clinch, & Connell, 2004).

However, studies were excluded if they focused on young people with chronic illnesses that have been referred to psychological services due to depressive symptoms, or if sufficient information for computing effect sizes was not reported.

On average, children and adolescents with chronic physical illnesses had higher levels of depressive symptoms than their healthy peers — a small to very small effect (Table I).

According to the BESD, 54.8 % of children with chronic illnesses and 45.2 % of their healthy peers would show depressive symptoms above the median.

Patients» self rated health, as well as the functional limitations their illness imposed, appeared to have a mediating role on the depressive symptoms they experienced.

The present meta - analysis shows that young people with chronic physical illnesses have, on average, higher levels of depressive symptoms than their healthy peers.

Because the lack of significant effect size on the CDI may indicate that this measure might not be sensitive for depressive symptoms of young people with chronic illnesses, we also checked whether the results would be consistent in studies that compared children with chronic illness to test norms and to healthy control groups.

The team explored the link between depression symptoms and the number and type of physical illness and depression symptoms, including the role that the degree of impairment has in producing depressive states.

A large majority of non-heterosexual people do not have depression or any other mental illness; however, the literature points towards strong trends for higher rates of depression, more depressive symptoms, and poorer mental health outcomes than heterosexual people.

Therefore, we believe it would be valuable to develop a scale to evaluate depressive states among elderly inpatients without disturbing the main object (illness) of the hospitalization of elderly patients and that the scale should minimize the burden on these patients.

Children (mean age 11 years) of mothers with BPD rated their mothers as less encouraging of independence than children whose mothers had other personality disorders.17 Similarly, mothers with BPD were reported to be more overprotective by their children aged 11 — 18 years, in comparison with healthy controls and controls with depressive illness and other personality disorders.19 It should be noted, however, that children of mothers with BPD might be living in environments that are more risky than average children, and that this higher reported overprotection might be advantageous in these conditions.

Depression is common among adolescents, with a point prevalence between 3 % and 8 %.1 By age 18 years, as many as 25 % of adolescents have had at least 1 depressive episode.2 Depressive disorders in children and teens increase the risk of illness, interpersonal problems, and psychosocial difficulties that persist long after the episode, 3 and adolescents who experience depressive episodes have an increased risk of substance abuse and suicidal behavior.4 - 6 Adults with depression have increased health care costs, 7 and successful depression treatment may decrease these costs for adults8 and depressive episode.2 Depressive disorders in children and teens increase the risk of illness, interpersonal problems, and psychosocial difficulties that persist long after the episode, 3 and adolescents who experience depressive episodes have an increased risk of substance abuse and suicidal behavior.4 - 6 Adults with depression have increased health care costs, 7 and successful depression treatment may decrease these costs for adults8 and Depressive disorders in children and teens increase the risk of illness, interpersonal problems, and psychosocial difficulties that persist long after the episode, 3 and adolescents who experience depressive episodes have an increased risk of substance abuse and suicidal behavior.4 - 6 Adults with depression have increased health care costs, 7 and successful depression treatment may decrease these costs for adults8 and depressive episodes have an increased risk of substance abuse and suicidal behavior.4 - 6 Adults with depression have increased health care costs, 7 and successful depression treatment may decrease these costs for adults8 and children.9

Combination treatment is usually necessary to achieve prophylaxis against both manic and depressive symptoms, as many agents have a predominant effect on one pole of the illness.

These findings are consistent with the report of Aneshensel, Frerichs, and Huba (1984) that illness has a large, contemporaneous effect, increasing depressive symptomatology over previous levels, and that depressive symptoms have a smaller, lagged effect on health.

It used to be called manic - depressive illness, and is characterised by having periods of time in which you go through extremely intense emotions.

The strongest specific risk factor for the development of depression, above and beyond these other factors, is having a parent with depressive illness.

The global prevalence of depression and depressive symptoms has been increasing in recent decades.1 The lifetime prevalence of depression ranges from 20 % to 25 % in women and 7 % to 12 % in men.2 Depression is a significant determinant of quality of life and survival, accounting for approximately 50 % of psychiatric consultations and 12 % of all hospital admissions.3 Notably, the prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms is higher in patients than in the general public.3 — 6 The underlying reasons include the illness itself and the heavy medical cost, unsatisfactory medical care service and poor doctor — patient relationship.7 8 Several informative systematic reviews on specific groups of outpatients have been published.

A study of individual cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder showed positive outcomes at 1 - year follow - up, but the benefits were reduced over time, suggesting the need for booster sessions to sustain the gains.19 As with many forms of therapy, CBT has been found to be more successful in reducing relapse in the depressive pole compared with the manic pole.30 A large randomised trial of CBT showed no difference between CBT and treatment as usual, when all participants were included in the analyses.31 However, results of a post-hoc analysis suggested that CBT was effective for participants who reported fewer than 12 prior episodes of illness and were not acutely unwell when therapy began; numbers of episodes of mania rather than depression seemed to predict treatment response.32 Such data can help guide the clinical application of CBT for bipolar patients.

Interpersonal family stress contributes to relationship breakdown and lack of perceived social support, and high expressed emotion may contribute to relapse.21 Family - focused treatment has been shown to reduce recurrence when used as an adjunct to medication for bipolar disorder.38 It is initiated once stabilisation of mood has been effected after an acute episode, and includes the patient and at least one significant family member (eg, parent or spouse).39 The underlying focus of family - focused treatment is to provide education regarding the recent illness episode; this includes exploring possible causes and the patient's personal triggers, discussing the importance of medication, differentiating between the person and the illness, and enhancing positive family relationships.40 Improved positive communication appears to be a key mechanism in this approach.38, 41 Recent studies suggest greater benefits in reducing depressive rather than manic relapses.23, 38,42

Everyone in the family suffers when one of its members has a depressive illness.

Adolescents who experience minor or major depressive episodes have a higher incidence of medical illness and social adjustment challenges than those without depressive illness.

These adolescents have a higher incidence of medical illness and social adjustment challenges than those without depressive illness and are at risk for suicide and recurrent depressive episodes.

If the sadness becomes persistent, or if disruptive behavior that interferes with normal social activities, interests, schoolwork, or family life develops, it may indicate that he or she has a depressive illness.

We used the CES - D to measure depressive symptoms, but we did not determine whether the women had MDD or other psychiatric illnesses.

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