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Mood Disorders
Major Depression
Dysthymic Disorder
Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression)
Describe the author of the quote.
“I am now the most miserable man
living. If what I feel were equally
distributed to the whole human
family, there would not be one
cheerful face on earth. Whether I
shall be better I cannot tell. To remain
as I am is impossible, I must die or be
better”
- Abraham Lincoln
“Depression is a disorder of mood, so
mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it
becomes known to the self…as to verge close
to being beyond description. It thus remains
nearly incomprehensible to others who have
not experienced it in its extreme mode,
although the gloom, “the blues” which people
go through occasionally and associate with the
general hassle of everyday existence are of
such prevalence that they do give many
individuals a hint of the illness in its
catastrophic form.”
- Styron
Major Depression
• Definition:
– A low state where life seems bleak and
overwhelming
• Criteria:
– Recurrent episodes for at least 2 weeks of
depressed mood or loss of interest and 4
other symptoms
Major Depression
• Symptoms
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Sadness
Hopelessness
Anxiety
Misery
Inability to enjoy
Negative thoughts about
self, world and future
– Loss of interest
– Lack of drive
– Difficulty starting
anything
– Loss of appetite
– Lack of energy
– Sleep difficulties
– Weight loss
Dysthymic Disorder
• Criteria
– Longer duration than major depression
– At least 2 years of more bad days than not
– In addition to other symptoms
• Symptoms
– Same as major depression but less severe
Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression)
• Definition:
– Mania: a state of euphoria, frenzied activity
and grandiosity
• Criteria:
– Period of depression that alternate with
periods of mania
Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression)
• Symptoms:
– Mania
• Distracted
• Feels need to talk or more talkative than usual
• Flights of ideas
• Decreased need for sleep
• Increased goal-directed activity
– Depression
• Symptoms of Major Depression
Statistics
• 9.5% of general population has some
type of mood disorder (approximately
20.9 million American adults)
• Twice as many females as males
• Less prevalent in blacks
KEY:
H = Asylum or psychiatric hospital
S = Suicide
SA = Suicide attempt
Hans Christian Andersen
William Faulkner (H)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (H)
Ernest Hemingway (H, S)
Henrik Ibsen
Henry James
William James
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Charles Dickens
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herman Melville
Eugene O'Neill (H, SA)
Mary Shelley
Leo Tolstoy
Tennessee Williams (H)
Mary Wollstonecraft (SA)
Virginia Woolf (H, S)
William Blake
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Emily Dickinson
T.S. Eliot (H)
Edward FitzGerald
Victor Hugo
John Keats
Sylvia Plath (H, S)
Edgar Allan Poe (SA)
Ezra Pound (H)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
Walt Whitman
Kitty Dukakis, former First Lady of
Massachusetts
Patty Duke (Anna Pearce), actor, writer
Connie Francis, actor, musician
Peter Gabriel, musician
Kristy McNichols, actor
Charley Pride, musician
Axl Rose, musician
Ted Turner, entrepreneur, media giant
(U.S.)
Jonathon Winters, comedian, actor,
writer, artist
Modern Figures with Depression
• Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
Art Buchwald, writer
Barbara Bush, former First Lady
(U.S.)
Ray Charles, musician
Eric Clapton, musician
Dick Clark, television personality
(American Bandstand)
Francis Ford Coppola, director
Michael Crichton, writer
Lady Diana, Princess of Wales
Richard Dreyfuss, actor
Kathy Kronkite, writer (daughter
of Walter Kronkite)
• Sheryl Crow, musician
Mike Douglas, media personality
Carrie Fisher
Stephen Hawking, physicist
Anthony Hopkins, actor
Sarah McLachlan, musician
Bonnie Raitt, musician
Joan Rivers, comedienne, talk
show host
Roseanne, actor, writer,
comedienne
William Styron, writer
James Taylor, musician
Mike Wallace, news anchor