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Common Mental Disorders Depression - New Zealand Doctor

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Mania continued...<br />

Mate Mäori<br />

Melancholic depression<br />

Mindfulness-based<br />

cognitive therapy<br />

(MBCT)<br />

Minor depression<br />

Mood stabilising drug<br />

Older adult<br />

Omphalocele<br />

Oppositional defiant<br />

disorder<br />

Overanxious disorder<br />

• increase in goal-directed activity (either socially,<br />

at work or school, or sexually)<br />

• psychomotor agitation, or excessive involvement in<br />

pleasurable activities that have a high potential for<br />

painful consequences (eg, engaging in unrestrained<br />

buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business<br />

investments)<br />

Ill health or uncharacteristic behaviour among Mäori<br />

which is related to spiritual causes and may take several<br />

forms, with both physical and mental presentations.<br />

It requires expert cultural assistance 160<br />

<strong>Depression</strong> distinguished by characteristic somatic<br />

symptoms and psychomotor change, with the loss of<br />

pleasure in all, or almost all, activities or a lack of<br />

response to usual pleasurable stimuli<br />

A form of cognitive therapy that develops a person’s<br />

ability to be attentive and aware of their negative thoughts<br />

but not react to them. The idea is to change the person’s<br />

relationship with their negative thoughts, rather than the<br />

content of their thoughts<br />

A mood disorder with depressive signs and symptoms<br />

that are just below the threshold for diagnosis of major<br />

depression<br />

A drug used to prevent moods from cycling and<br />

shifting, used for disorders characterised by intense and<br />

sustained mood shifts such as bipolar disorder. Most<br />

mood stabilisers are anticonvulsants, with the important<br />

exception of lithium<br />

Aged 60–65 years or over<br />

A birth defect of the abdominal wall in which the infant’s<br />

intestines or other abdominal organs protrude outside the<br />

abdominal wall in a sac<br />

An ongoing pattern of hostile and defiant behaviour<br />

towards authority figures, which goes beyond the bounds<br />

of normal age-appropriate behaviour. It is strongly<br />

associated with progression to the more serious Conduct<br />

Disorder.<br />

Term for Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) occurring<br />

in children<br />

152<br />

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

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