Thursday, January 19, 2017

Deppresion Webinar Notes

Today we tuned into a webinar on  depression.
Webinar = seminar on a topic that is streamed online.
  • Showing sighs for at least 2 weeks
  • loss of interest
  • depressed mood every day
  • in teens irritable mood
  • not sadness
  • loss of concentration
  • weight fluctuations
  • insomnia or hypersomnia
  • feels slowed down
  • agitated or very calm/expressionless
  • lower participations in activities
  • loss of self esteem
  • guilt
  • not able to think or concentrate
  • desire to be dead or planning suicide
  • all must cause significant impairment socially physically and academically
  • potential for death
  • teens 30% more likely to die from suicide
  • 2nd leading cause of years lived in disability
  • more common than cancer or cardiovascular disease
  • 2 main causes: genes(35-50% of cases) and environment
  • different people respond to trauma in different ways
  • possible to pass on risk for depression
  • 12n be caused by one or multiple  factors
  • depression is 2wice as common in girls than girls
  • early start to menstrual cycle are more likely to be depressed
  • disruptive behaviors young are 2wice as likely to develop depression
  • link between early anxiety and depression
  • negativity bias (expecting the worst in plain faces)
  • increased processing in the amygdala
  • inability to identify positive thing
  • disruptive hedonic processing
  • would you like this.... no I don't
  • motivation problem interpreted as laziness and stubbornness
  • diagnosis should include manic symptoms
  • should make sure not a disease causing the depression
  • important risk assessment
  • behavior feelings and thoughts are what medications try to combat
  • serotonin reuptake inhibitor
  • physiological therapy
  • 60% teens respond to anti depressant
  • 50% respond to placebo
  • I think that enviromatal factors can also be caused by genetics
  • if a parent has depression this creates a negative environmental factor.

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