Depression in Interns and Residents on the Rise
Almost 30% of medical residents reported having depression or depressive symptoms.
Almost 30% of medical residents reported having depression or depressive symptoms.
Psychiatrists can play a key role in detecting signs of abuse, helping the individual to create a safety plan, and providing trauma interventions.
IED has comorbidities, including mood disorders, lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and substance abuse.
September 28 through October 2 is Invisible Illness Awareness Week, which includes conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome.
A form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoarding is characterized by a fear of making mistakes in what to keep or discard similar to “obsessions,” while urges to save or acquire new items seem similar to “compulsions.”
Pseudobulbar affect, which involves uncontrollable emotional outbursts, has been reported in diseases including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Adults in the CBT-I group achieved much bigger reductions in depressive and anxiety symptoms than peers using control website.
Although depression and anxiety are two of the most common comorbidities in patients with COPD, they are infrequently treated in this population.
Many clinicians believe that BPD patients are often treatment resistant and overly demanding.
Research points to a “facial feedback hypothesis,” which suggests that facial expressions feed info back to the brain, thereby influencing emotions.