What is Major Depressive Disorder?|CLASSIC Signs & Symptoms-Dr.Meena Gnanasekharan | Doctors' Circle

Dr. Meena Gnanasekharan MD | Appointment No: 080 40988156 and [phone]
Consultant Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist
Reach Psychiatry and Counselling Center Kalyan Nagar Bangalore
Major Depressive Disorder is a 2 week period of discrete changes in mood, cognition and neurocognitive function. It presents with a variety of symptoms of which can include persistently feeing sad or depressed, loss of motivation, persistent hopelessness, helplessness and guilty feelings. There can be changes in sleep and appetite. People either sleep more or sleeplessness. So there can be persistent insomnia, appetite can either go up or down. So at times they want to eat more and they have carbohydrate cravings and they put on weight. It can also be loss of appetite persistently. In this there can be complete loss of functioning in their personal places, work and in their social spaces. All these symptoms have to be present for 2 weeks to presents as a Major Depressive Disorder.
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