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College of Nursing Announcements The College of Nursing at the University of Basra attended a scientific lecture on mood disorders and suicide, which is part of the requirements for the subject of Mental and Mental Health Nursing. In which the assistant teacher lectured Doaa Muhammad Baji The lecture included mood disorders and suicide Mood disorders, also called affective disorders, are pervasive changes in feelings that manifest as depression, mania, or both. The lecture dealt with mood disorders, the most common psychiatric diagnosis associated with suicide. Depression is one of the most important risk factors for it. Only 9% of people with mood disorders develop symptoms of psychosis. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) has two types. Most common with winter depression, people experience increased sleep, appetite, and cravings for carbohydrates; overweight; interpersonal conflict; irritability; Heaviness in the extremities begins in late autumn and decreases in spring and summer. The other subtype, called spring SAD, is less common, with symptoms of insomnia, weight loss, and poor appetite that last from late spring or early summer through early fall. Social anxiety disorder is often treated with light therapy The lecture also talked about depression in terms of definition, criteria for diagnosing depression and methods of treatment And also about obsession and how to treat it and suicide of all kinds |
