Major depressive disorder
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| Major depressive disorder | |
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| Synonyms | Clinical depression, major depression, unipolar depression, unipolar disorder, recurrent depression |
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| Specialty | Psychiatry |
| Symptoms | Law muid, law sel-esteem, loss o interest in normally enjoyable activities, law energy, pyne withoot a clear cause[1] |
| Complications | Suicide[2] |
| Uisual onset | 20s–30s[3][4] |
| Duration | > 2 weeks[1] |
| Causes | Genetic, environmental, an psychological factors[1] |
| Risk factors | Faimily history, major life cheenges, certain medications, chronic heal problems, substance abuiss[1][3] |
| Seemilar condeetions | Sadness[3] |
| Treatment | Coonselin, antidepressant medication, electroconvulsive therapy[1] |
| Frequency | 216 million (2015)[5] |
References
eedit- ↑ a b c d e f g "Depression". NIMH. Mey 2016. Archived frae the original on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 31 Julie 2016. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help) - ↑ Richards, C. Steven; O'Hara, Michael W. (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Depression and Comorbidity (in Inglis). Oxford University Press. p. 254. ISBN 9780199797042.
- ↑ a b c American Psychiatric Association (2013), Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.), Arlington: American Psychiatric Publishing, pp. 160–168, ISBN 978-0-89042-555-8, archived frae the original on 31 Julie 2016, retrieved 22 Julie 2016 Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help) - ↑ Kessler, RC; Bromet, EJ (2013). "The epidemiology of depression across cultures". Annual Review of Public Health. 34: 119–38. doi:10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031912-114409. PMC 4100461. PMID 23514317.
- ↑ GBD 2015 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence, Collaborators. (8 October 2016). "Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015". Lancet. 388 (10053): 1545–1602. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31678-6. PMC 5055577. PMID 27733282.