Depressive Personality Disorder
Depressive personality disorder (also known as melancholic personality disorder) is a psychiatric diagnosis that denotes a personality disorder with depressive features. Originally included in the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-II, depressive personality disorder was removed from the DSM-III and DSM-III-R.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W059
Diagnosis: Depressive Personality Disorder
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Age Onset:
Brain Area: None listed.
Symptoms: 2 years: mood is usually joyless, low self-esteem, self-derogatory, pessimistic, guilty, remorseful, judgmental to others
Progression: pervasive negative pattern before, during, after depressive episodes; difficulty developing and maintaining relationships
Causes: None listed.
Medications: None listed.
Therapies: None listed.
Youtube Video: How To Overcome Depressive Personality Disorder
Amazon or Library Book: Depressive Personality Disorder
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Support Group: dbsalliance.org; It has a search function for area groups. (Depression and Bipolar Suppor Alliance)
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Section 12.04.
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Peer rejection and internet gaming disorder: the mediating role of relative deprivation and the moderating role of gritby Jingjing Li on January 30, 2025
CONCLUSION: These findings emphasize relative deprivation as a potential mechanism linking peer rejection IGD. Grit was an important protective factor to weaken this indirect effect. Intervention programs aimed at reducing IGD may benefit from the current research.
- The progress in the field of clinical staging for mental disorders within the last decade: an updated systematic reviewby Sharon L Clarke on January 30, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Clinical staging aims to refine psychiatric diagnosis by describing mental disorders on a continuum of disorder progression, with the pragmatic goal of improved treatment planning and outcome prediction. The first systematic review on this topic, published a decade ago, included 78 papers, and identified separate staging models for schizophrenia, unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, substance use disorder, anorexia, and bulimia nervosa. The current review updates...
- Associations of Child Amygdala Development with Borderline Personality Symptoms in Adolescenceby Anna Constantino-Pettit on January 30, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings add evidence for the role of alterations in amygdala structure in BPD development. Decreased amygdala volume as early as age 13 may be an early indicator for the development of BPD in adolescence.
- Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy for Complex, Chronic, and Treatment-Resistant Conditionsby Allan Abbass on January 29, 2025
Over the past 50 years, intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) has been developed, implemented, and evaluated with respect to the treatment of a broad spectrum of complex, chronic, and treatment-resistant conditions. This therapy was developed specifically to treat a range of patients, including those who are highly defensive, those who experience the repression of emotions, and those who have cognitive-perceptual disruptions along with primitive defenses. These three groups of...