Psychiatric Disorders

Symptoms

Unipolar Major Depression

5 or more of the following symptoms within a period of two weeks, at least one of them being dysphoria or anhedonia:

· Disphoria most of the day;

· Accentuated anhedonia most of the day in daily life activities;

· Significant weight loss or gain without being on a diet;

· Insomnia;

· Agitation;

· Fatigue almost every day;

· Feeling of uselessness or inappropriate guilt;

· Diminished ability to think;

· Recurring thoughts of death, suicidal ideation.

Disruptive Humor Disorder

The symptoms be present for at least 12 months:

· Feeling of rage recurrent and manifested by language or behavior, disproportionate to the situation or provocation, being inconsistent with the level of development and occurring at least 3 times a week;

· The symptoms are present in at least two environments (school, home, family home, etc.)

· The diagnosis should not be made before the age of 6 or after the age of 18;

· Criteria of mania or hypomania cannot be present (except duration);

· - Symptoms do not appear only during episodes of major depression, and are not explained by other disorders or effects of substances.

Persistent Depressive Disorder

The irritable mood during most of the day, almost daily, in a minimum period of 1 year associated with two or more of the following symptoms:

· Insomnia or Hypersomnia;

· Fatigue;

· Low self-esteem;

· Increased or decreased appetite;

· - Difficulty concentrating.

Minor Depression

Two depressive symptoms, where at least one is dysphoria or anhedonia, causing personal or professional loss.

Drug-induced Depression

Disorder

· The mood change precedes the intoxication by the substance;

· The disorder is maintained for a long period after the use of the drug (approximately one month);

· The disorder occurs only during an episode of delirium;

· - There is a previous history of recurrent depressive episodes.

Depressive disorder triggered by another pathology

Individuals who have symptoms characteristic of a depressive condition, however, when analyzing the anamnesis and physical examination, it is perceived that such change is being caused by another disease, so that there are coincidences between the two conditions, such as start time, periods of exacerbation and remission.