Depressive Personality Disorder
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.
- Factors Predisposing to the Onset of Bipolar Disorder: A 30-Year Longitudinal Studyby Peter Tyrer on March 28, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Patients treated for anxiety and depressive disorders who remain unwell after initial treatment are more at risk of developing bipolar disorder than others.
- Regional and gender disparities in depression and late life expectancy in Chileby Sarahí Rueda-Salazar on March 28, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Public health policies in prevention and intervention for depression should integrate territorial differences in non-communicable diseases and gender-sensitive approaches to increase the number of years without depression in later life, with a particular focus on women and those populations living in lower socioeconomic settings.
- Beyond the Spine: Exploring Mental Health Disorders in Spondylodiscitisby Julius Gerstmeyer on March 27, 2025
Background/Objectives: Spondylodiscitis (SD) is a challenging and multifaceted condition with increasing incidences globally. Mental health disorders (MHDs) are well recognized for their negative impacts on outcomes. To our knowledge, the effects of MHDs on SD have not been studied. This study aims to assess the incidence of MHDs in patients hospitalized for SD, and their impact on 90-day all-cause readmission rates using the Nationwide Readmission Database (NRD). Methods: A retrospective...
- Clinician Diagnostic Ratings and Countertransference Reactions Towards Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissismby Nicholas J S Day on March 27, 2025
BACKGROUND: Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is known to comprise two distinct but connected phenotypes related to 'grandiosity' and 'vulnerability', respectively. While evidence suggests differing countertransference responses to narcissism subtype expression, no study has examined this using a qualitative methodology and explored associations with ratings of personality disorder severity.