Age features of depressions

Depression is a mental disorder that is characterized by a decrease in mood and loss of ability to experience joy, inhibition of motor activity, impaired thinking. People of any age can be exposed to this condition. However, there are certain age-specific features of depression.

In the preschool age, depression is manifested by impaired motor activity and changes in the vegetative sphere, since such reactions are characteristic of such an age. At a very young age, depression is not very similar to itself. Children are restless, weight loss, weight loss, impaired appetite and sleep rhythm. Depression can occur at times when the child is deprived of contact with the mother.

Anaclitic depression occurs before the age of one year in children who have been separated from their mother and who are in unfavorable conditions of life. Depression can manifest itself in the form of anorexia, adynamia, delay of motility and psyche, decrease or total absence of reactions to stimuli from the outside.

Young children have anxious and adynamic depression. Anxious depression can manifest itself in the form of tearfulness, motor anxiety, negativism, and the child can be whimsical. Adynamic depression is characterized by slowness, joyless mood, lethargy, monotony.

In the preschool age, as a rule, there are motor and vegetative disorders, but the appearance of the child will indicate a bad mood: a quiet voice, a pose, a painful expression. At this age, there may be diurnal fluctuations in the state of health, there will be complaints of unpleasant sensations in various parts of the body. Several types of depression can be distinguished, which differ depending on the type of dominant disorder.

In children of seven or nine years, behavior is usually disrupted: loss of interest in games, lethargy, learning difficulties, isolation. Some children may become irritable, prone to aggression, resentful, may begin to skip school. Complaints about melancholy are not detected. Also, sometimes you can see a decrease in appetite, enuresis, constipation, weight loss.

At pubertal age, depression is manifested by disorders in the vegetative sphere, constipation, headaches, hypochondriacal complaints, impaired appetite and sleep. Irritability prevails among boys, and girls have tearfulness, depression and lethargy.

At this age, the clinical picture is very similar to the depressed state of adults, but the ideological inhibition is less clear. Patients are actively expressing hypochondriacal complaints and ideas of self-incrimination.

Features of depressions at a later age are associated with changes in the person in the work of the psyche and are determined by biological processes that occur with age. For disorders at a later age, there is a lack of depressive self-esteem and a reassessment of the past( the past is seen as a happy and happy time), a kind of "crumbling and reduced" disorders, a fear of difficulties in the material sphere, a predominance of fears for health. This condition is a reflection of the age-related revaluation of values.

At a more adult age, distressing depression and simple with restraint are singled out. Simple disorders with age are less common, anxious-hypochondriacal and anxious-delirious states prevail. Most of all depressive disorders with anxiety occur between the ages of 60 to 69 years.

With any variant of the depressive state, you can observe a violation of appetite and sleep, constipation, change in body weight. Often, patients in later life may experience a "sense of self-change," but complaints are usually about somatic changes. Features of mental anesthesia are often observed in individuals who are ill before age 50.

Explicit motor retardation is not inherent in depressive states of late age, stuporous conditions are almost not observed. Anxious-agitated depressive disorders can be observed both in the involutionary and in the late age.