Mental Health and Wellness 03: Depression and Anxiety

Anxiety and Depression

1. Please answer the following questions and place the answers in your assignment folder.
2. What is the difference between anxiety, depression and clinical depression?
3. What is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist?
4. What symptoms does the DRM-5 require for someone to be diagnosed with clinical depression?
5. What are some long term effects on brain physiology in cases of chronic depression?
6. What other major health concerns can be triggered by long term depression?

Resources

Depression Basics

https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/depression

Crash Course: BiPolar and Depressive Disorders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMlHkWKDwM

DRM5 - Depressive Disorders

http://www.psnpaloalto.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Depression-Diagnostic-Criteria-and-Severity-Rating.pdf

Depression: Beyond Seratonin

https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199903/depression-beyond-serotonin