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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 />

continued over...<br />

Identification of <strong>Common</strong> <strong>Mental</strong> <strong>Disorders</strong> and Management of <strong>Depression</strong> in Primary Care 151

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