Behaviour disordersSandra Martínez

DEPRESSIONDepression is a psychiatric diagnosis

that describes a mood disorder, transient or permanent, characterized by feelings of depression, unhappiness and guilt as well as causing a total or partial inability to enjoy things and events of everyday life

The principal types of depression are:

Major Depressive Disorder Dysthymic disorder Seasonal Affective Disorder Bipolar Depression

Other types of depressionPsychotic depression, which occurs when

a severe depressive illness is accompanied by some form of psychosis, such as a break with reality, hallucinations, and delusions.

Postpartum depression, which is diagnosed if a woman who has recently given birth suffer an episode of major depression within the first month after birth. It is estimated that 10 to 15 percent of women experience postpartum depression after giving birth.

What diseases coexist with depression?

Depression often coexists with other illnesses. These diseases can occur before the depression, cause it, and / or result of this.

Anxiety disorders, such as PTSD, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social phobia

Abuse or dependence on alcohol or other substances

Heart disease, stroke, cancer, HIV / AIDS, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease

What causes depression?There is no single known cause of

depression. Rather, this appears to result from a combination of genetic, biochemical, and psychological.

Research indicates that depressive illnesses are disorders of the brain. Technologies for imaging the brain, such as MRI, have shown that the brains of people with depression look different than those who do not suffer

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SCHIZOPHRENIA It is a complex mental disorder that hinders: Establish the difference between what is real

and unreal. Think clearly. Have normal emotional responses. To act normally in social situations.It is a brain disorder that impairs the ability of

people in very different psychological aspects as thought, perception, emotion or desire, i.e, loss of contact with reality, hallucinations, delusions, abnormal thinking, and impaired social and occupational functioning

CAUSES The origin of schizophrenia is not known with

certainty. However, in recent years there have been some advances that allow point to various factors responsible for the disorder:

Early alterations of brain development. Genetic predisposition Alterations in brain substances Infections complications of pregnancy and

childbirth

SYMPTOMSThe most characteristic symptoms of the disease are:Delusions: misconceptions which the patient

believesHallucinations: perceiving something that does

not exist.Disorders of thought: the language of the patient

becomes incomprehensible and fluidity is altered. Impaired sense of self: the person feels that her

body is changing, he sees himself as weird.Deterioration of emotions: the emotions

becomes poorer. You can get to the absence of feelings

Isolation: patients withdraw into themselves and their inner world

TYPES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA Paranoid Schizophrenia is the most

common subtype. Dominated by delusions of persecution or harm other people towards the patient.

Hebephrenic schizophrenia: abnormalities in her emotions dominate

Catatonic schizophrenia: is characterized by motor abnormalities, usually persistent immobility, but can alternate with acute agitation, repetitive movements or may occur.

Undifferentiated Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness. It is a brain disorder that impairs the ability of people in a variety of psychological aspects such as thinking, perception, emotions or will