Glossary for Mental depression
Medical terms related to Mental depression or mentioned in this section include:
- Addington disease: An epidemic disease which resembles polio and was first recorded in South Africa. The range and severity of symptoms experienced is variable and the disease may persist from a week to 3 months in some cases.
- Adjustment Disorder: This is a maladaptive reaction to identifiable stress
- Alcohol abuse: Excessive alcohol as a symptom of other conditions
- Alzheimer's disease: A progressive degenerative disease of the brain of unknown cause
- Anorexia Nervosa: A disorder where a distorted sense of body image leads to self-starvation to the point of death in some cases.
- Anxiety-tension syndrome: Anxiety associated with physical symptoms such as tense muscles and fatigue.
- Bipolar disorder: Cycles of mania and depression; commonly called "manic-depression".
- Body symptoms: Symptoms affecting the entire body features.
- Brain tumor: A condition which is characterized by the abnormal growth of tissue within the brain
- Bulimia nervosa: Eating disorder with binging (overeating) and purging (vomiting).
- Common symptoms: The most common symptoms
- Cyclothymia:
- Depressive disorders: Depression or its various related conditions.
- Depressive symptoms: Inappropriate depressed mood.
- Dercum syndrome: A rare condition characterized by the development of painful, localized fatty skin swellings.
- Emotional symptoms: Symptoms affecting the emotions.
- Fatigue: Excessive tiredness or weakness.
- Grief or loss: The normal emotional response that occurs to an external loss
- Hypokalemia: Abnormally low levels of potassium in the blood.
- Hypothyroidism: The decreased activity of the thyroid gland
- Loss of interest: The loss of ones interest in something
- Major depression: feeling of extreme sadness
- Major depressive disorder: A condition which is characterized by the occurrence of a major episode of depression
- Mental depression in pregnancy: Mental depression in pregnancy is common and arises from the myriad life changes occurring at the time. It is a state of lowered mood and may be mild or severe.
- Mental illness: Any psychological syndrome
- Mental problems: Symptoms affecting judgement, thought or intelligence.
- Mood symptoms: Mood symptoms such as depressive symptoms and mania.
- Muscle symptoms: Symptoms affecting the muscles of the body
- Muscle weakness: Weakness of the muscles or loss of tone
- Parkinson's Disease: Degenerative brain condition characterised by tremor.
- Psychiatric symptoms: Psychiatric mental health symptoms such as psychosis.
- Rabies: An infectious disease that can affect any mammal including humans and is transmitted through the saliva of an infected animal. The infectious agent is the Neurotropic lyssavirus which affects the salivary gland and also causes neurological symptoms.
- Renal failure: A condition characterized by a failure of the kidney to excrete toxic metabolites from the body
- Schizoaffective disorder: A psychiatric condition in which symptoms of a mood disorder occur with prominent psychotic symptoms
- Seasonal affective disorder: Seasonal affective disorder is a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter or, less frequently, in the summer, repeatedly, year after year.
- Sopite syndrome: A condition primarily involving the drowsiness associated with motion sickness.
- Weakness: Symptoms causing weakness of the body
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