| Name 3 emotional characteristics of depression? | Lowered mood, anger, lowered self-esteem |
| What is lowered mood? | Feel sad, more pronounced than daily experience, more 'worthless' and 'empty' |
| What is anger? | Experience more negative emotions than positive ones. Directed at others or self, can ldead to self-harming and aggressive behaviours |
| What is lowered self-esteem? | How much we like ourselves is reduced, can be extreme sense of self-loathing |
| Name 3 behavioural characterisitcs of depression? | Activity levels, disruption to sleep and eating behaviours, aggression and self-harm. |
| What is activity levels? | Reduced levels of energy, making from lethargic from work, education, social life. Sometimes can't get out of bed.
Or oppostive with psychomotor agitiation, struggle to relax |
| What is disruption to sleep and eating behaviours? | Changes in sleeping habits, reduced or increased sleep. Reduced or increased appetitie. |
| What is aggression and self-harm? | Often irritable, verbally or physically aggressive. Knock-on effect, can lead to physical aggression against the self. |
| Name 3 cognitive characteristics of depression? | Poor concentration, attending to and dwelling on the negative, absolutist thinking |
| What is poor concentration? | Unable to stick with a task they can usualy do, hard to make decisions that would normally stright foward. Interfere with individual's work |
| What is attending to and dwelling on the negative? | Inclined to pay more attention to the negative aspects of a situation and ignore the positives. Bias towards recalling unhappy events |
| What is absolutist thinking? | Tend to think in terms of a situation being all good or all bad. Tends to see things as an absolute disaster. |
