Global Perspectives
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Depression & Anxiety In Pain Disorders | |
| Depression is the most common psychological disturbance associated with medical illness. Reciprocal psychological effects of pain and depressive symptoms have been postulated: pain precipitates worry and pessimism, and distress impairs the ability to cope with pain. | ||
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Major Depression | |
- Compiled by Dr Ajita Nayak and Dr (Mrs) H S Dhavale Major depression is a chronic and recurrent disorder for many people. It is conceived as an episodic disorder. About 85% of patients who recover from first major depressive episode can experience a recurrence and 58% of these who remained well for at least five years. |
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Depression And Suicidal Ideation | |
| “Suicide” or self inflected death is one of the multitudinous threats to public health. Many episodes of deliberate self-harm appear to be impulsive acts by vulnerable persons who have been emotionally upset in response to some kind of disturbing event. | ||
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Depression and Heart Disease | |
| Depression is a common problem in patients with heart disease. Yet only recently have scientific studies examined the relation between them. | ||
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