Symptoms
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What I'm saying is that getting some of these
symptoms
doesn't amount to a mental disorder, and when psychologists come up with a disorder that's so vaguely defined, the label eventually becomes meaningless.
With a list of
symptoms
this long and wide, I could have PMS, you could have PMS, the guy in the third row here could have PMS, my dog could have PMS.
Some researchers said you had to have five
symptoms.
Other researchers said that
symptoms
were only meaningful if they were highly disturbing to you, but others said minor
symptoms
were just as important.
First, many studies asked women to report their
symptoms
retrospectively, looking to the past and relying on memory, which is known to inflate reporting of PMS compared to what's called prospective reporting, which involves keeping a daily log of
symptoms
for at least two months in a row.
And finally, many different types of questionnaires were used to diagnose PMS, focusing on different symptoms, symptom duration and severity.
And according to these new DSM guidelines, in most menstrual cycles in the last year, at least five of 11 possible
symptoms
must appear in the week before menstruation starts; the
symptoms
must improve once menstruation has begun; and the
symptoms
must be absent the week after menstruation has ended.
One of these
symptoms
must come from this list of four: marked mood swings, irritability, anxiety, or depression.
The other
symptoms
could come from the first slide or from those on the second slide, including
symptoms
like feeling out of control and changes in sleep or appetite.
We now have a limited number of symptoms, and a high impact on functioning that's required, and the reporting and timing of
symptoms
have both become very specific.
You might ask her, "Do you have PMS?" and she says yes, but then, when you have her keep a daily log of psychological
symptoms
for two months, no correlation is found between her
symptoms
and time of the month.
Interestingly, though, both websites say that the success of medication in treating PMS
symptoms
vary from woman to woman.
Over-the-counter drugs like Midol even claim to treat PMS
symptoms
like tension and irritability, even though they only contain a diuretic, a pain reliever and caffeine.
So the good news about PMS is that while some women get some
symptoms
because of the menstrual cycle, the great majority don't get a mental disorder.
So I go through the
symptoms
of that diagnosis, and it's clear to me that she's not clinically depressed, and I tell her that.
The child's
symptoms
begin with mild fever, headache, muscle pains, followed by vomiting and diarrhea, then bleeding from the mouth, nose and gums.
In fact, the things that we are seeing in those parts of the world may be
symptoms.
Some of my patients that have been told they are cured of their cancer still develop
symptoms
of depression."
And if we give antidepressants, then we increase the production of these newborn neurons, and we decrease the
symptoms
of depression, establishing a clear link between neurogenesis and depression.
So when someone actually goes on a plane, they could be sick and they could actually be in this latency period in which they could actually have the disease but not exhibit any symptoms, and they could, in turn, spread the disease to many other people in the cabin.
People with hypothyroidism see
symptoms
in weight gain, sluggishness, sensitivity to cold, swollen joints and feeling low.
But are serotonin and activity in these brain regions the sources of OCD or
symptoms
of an unknown underlying cause of the disorder.
Depression can have a lot of different symptoms: a low mood, loss of interest in things you'd normally enjoy, changes in appetite, feeling worthless or excessively guilty, sleeping either too much or too little, poor concentration, restlessness or slowness, loss of energy, or recurrent thoughts of suicide.
If you have at least five of those symptoms, according to psychiatric guidelines, you qualify for a diagnosis of depression.
And it's not just behavioral
symptoms.
And because depression
symptoms
are intangible, it's hard to know who might look fine but is actually struggling.
That involves a constellation of symptoms, including high blood sugar, increased waist circumference, and high blood pressure.
Doctors have used the term placebo since the 1700s when they realized the power of fake drugs to improve people's
symptoms.
On the other hand, researchers think that if a person believes a fake treatment is real, their expectations of recovery actually do trigger physiological factors that improve their
symptoms.
It's logical to assume that this miserable medley of
symptoms
is the result of the infection coursing through your body, but is that really the case?
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