Anxiety and Depression

TYPES

Persistent depressive disorder(also called dysthymia) is a depressed mood that lasts for at least two years.

Bipolar disorder is different from depression, but it is included in this list is because someone with bipolar disorder experiences episodes of extremely low moods that meet the criteria for major depression (called “bipolar depression”).

Postpartum depression is much more serious than the “baby blues” (relatively mild depressive and anxiety symptoms that typically clear within two weeks after delivery) that many women experience after giving birth.

Seasonal affective disorder is characterized by the onset of depression during the winter months, when there is less natural sunlight.

Psychotic depression occurs when a person has severe depression plus some form of psychosis, such as having disturbing false fixed beliefs (delusions) or hearing or seeing upsetting things that others cannot hear or see (hallucinations).

Source: NIMH

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