Several types of depression exist. Each characterized by a specified symptom presentation. These include disorders that have a disturbance in mood as the predominant feature. Depressive disorders and bipolar disorders are the two most common type of mood disorder or depression.
The most types diagnosed in United States including:
*Adjustment disorder with depressed mood
*Dysthymic disorder
*Major depressive disorder
*Single episode or recurrent
*Major depressive episode associated with bipolar order
*Mood disorder associated with a general medical condition
Majority of older adults who are admitted to hospitals are diagnosed with major depressive disorder, but dysthymic disorder and bereavement are much more common in community setting.
Dysthymic disorder is chronic lower-grade depression that involves long term, chronic symptoms that do not disable, but keep the patents from functioning or feeling well.
In major depression the combination of symptoms interferes with the ability to work, study, sleep, eat and enjoy pleasure feelings. Symptoms of major depressive disorder include disruptions in mood, thinking and in the body’s regulatory system.
While bipolar disorder is a form of depressions that so characterized by cycling mood changes: severe high and severe low. When a person with bipolar disorder is depressed, the symptoms are just like those of major depression. During severe low the patients feeling too good, having too much energy and being overactive.
Various types of depression
