Violation for which the repeating depression periods without signs of hyperactivity are peculiar is called recurrent depressive frustration. Also this name is used in case of short easy raising of mood, the following after a depressive episode and quite often caused by prescription of antidepressants.
Symptoms and treatment of recurrent depressive frustration
The first manifestation of a disease is traditionally observed around 40 years. The average duration of episodes is half a year, but in process of increase in age also their duration increases. The main symptoms of recurrent depressive frustration consider: depressive mood, excessive fatigue, a lack of energy, inability to have satisfaction from earlier pleasant work. In addition unreasonable sense of guilt, violations of appetite, insomnia (or, on the contrary, drowsiness), decrease in a self-assessment, a pessimistic spirit, inability to concentrate, the ideas of suicide, attempt to do much harm to itself and other similar states and moods can be observed.
Such violation is diagnosed at repeated depressions, but at emergence of cases of a mania the diagnosis changes from recurrent depressive on bipolar affective disorder. Distinguish three degrees of a disease which are characterized by different number of manifestations. Treatment of recurrent depressive frustration is made by the psychiatrist in a complex with application of psychotherapy (cognitive, group, interpersonal) and the medicamentous influence providing prescription of antidepressants, inhibitors, neuroleptics or benzodiazepines.
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