persistent depressive disorder [ PDD | dysthymia | dysthymic disorder ]

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include sel ...[+++]f-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptoms, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

Definition: A chronic depression of mood, lasting at least several years, which is not sufficiently severe, or in which individual episodes are not sufficiently prolonged, to justify a diagnosis of severe, moderate, or mild recurrent depressive disorder (F33.-). | Depressive:neurosis | personality disorder | Neurotic depression Persistent anxiety depression

Definition: Persistent and usually fluctuating disorders of mood in which the majority of the individual episodes are not sufficiently severe to warrant being described as hypomanic or mild depressive episodes. Because they last for many years, and sometimes for the greater part of the patient's adult life, they involve considerable distress and disability. In some instances, recurrent or single manic or depressive episodes may become superimposed on a ...[+++] persistent affective disorder.

major depressive disorder [ clinical depressive disorder | major depression | clinical depression ]

major depressive disorder, single episode, unspecified [ depressive episode, unspecified | depression NOS | depressive disorder NOS | major depression, single episode, unspecified ]

bipolar disorder | bipolar psychosis | manic-depressive psychosis | MDP | manic-depressive disorder | manic-depressive illness | manic depression

Major Depressive Disorder | MDD [Abbr.]

recurrent depressive disorder | RDD [Abbr.]

manic-depressive person | manic depressive person | person with manic depression | person with manic-depressive illness | manic depressive | manic-depressive | bipolar person | bipolar patient | person with bipolar disorder | bipolar disorder patient

All those components will be looked at for depression; mania, which is associated with abnormal or persistent elevated mood or irritability; panic disorder — unexpected panic attacks and intense apprehension; social phobia — the fear of being in society and performance situations; and agoraphobia — the abnormal fear of the environment.

Since you've been persistent in seeking this information, why is it that we don't know how many individuals are suffering from mental health difficulties due to their service, especially when we have clinical suggestions that 90% of individuals diagnosed with PTSD have at least one psychiatric disorder, including drug abuse, depression, or suicidal thoughts?

Another piece that is not well brought forward is the whole issue of trauma; the impact of trauma and post- traumatic stress disorder, resulting in alterations that affect regulation: persistent depression, chronic anger and rage, alterations in consciousness, such as amnesia or dissociated episodes, and alterations in relationships with others, such as isolation, withdrawal, and persistent distress.

Around 3 per cent of those are what usually are called severe and persistent mental illness: severe unipolar depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder.