Common Mental Disorders Depression - New Zealand Doctor
Common Mental Disorders Depression - New Zealand Doctor
Common Mental Disorders Depression - New Zealand Doctor
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Glossary, abbreviations and acronyms<br />
Dysthymia<br />
GDT<br />
GP<br />
Grandiose delusions<br />
Hallucinations<br />
Hypomania<br />
Hyposomnia<br />
ICD<br />
Interpersonal<br />
psychotherapy (IPT)<br />
Maintenance treatment<br />
Mania<br />
A chronic lowering of mood that does not fulfil the criteria<br />
for recurrent depressive disorder, in terms of either severity<br />
or duration of individual episodes<br />
Guideline Development Team<br />
General practitioner<br />
A delusion in which one believes oneself possessed of<br />
great wealth, intellect, importance and/or power<br />
A sensory perception in the absence of an external<br />
stimulus, which occurs while conscious and awake<br />
See mania<br />
Insufficient sleep<br />
Most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD, the<br />
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and<br />
Related Health Problems provides codes to classify<br />
diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal<br />
findings, complaints, social circumstances and external<br />
causes of injury or disease<br />
A structured psychological intervention that focuses on<br />
interpersonal issues and where therapist and patient work<br />
collaboratively to identify the effects of key problematic<br />
areas related to interpersonal conflicts, role transitions,<br />
grief and loss, and social skills, and their effects on<br />
current problems. They seek to reduce symptoms by<br />
learning to cope with or resolve these problem areas<br />
Treatment after remission of depressive symptoms in order<br />
to prevent relapse or recurrence<br />
Symptoms of mania (impacting on daily functioning to<br />
a marked degree) or hypomania (clearly observable<br />
changes to others that are uncharacteristic but not<br />
impacting on life to a marked degree) are:<br />
• inflated self-esteem or grandiosity<br />
• decreased need for sleep (eg, feels rested after only<br />
3 hours of sleep)<br />
• more talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking<br />
• flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts<br />
are racing<br />
• distractibility (ie, attention too easily drawn to<br />
unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli)<br />
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