Recurrent Brief Depressive Disorder

Recurrent Brief Depressive Disorder
Recurrent brief depressive disorder is a mood disorder that included in the category of mood disorders Not Otherwise Specified as Postpsychotic Depressive disorders of Schizophrenia and other. Recurrent brief depressive disorder is usually characterized by multiple, episodes of depressive symptoms is relatively short, usually less than 2 weeks, except for a short duration that meets diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder.

Epidemiology
For 10 years, the prevalence rate for recurrent brief depressive disorder is estimated to reach 10 percent for the age of 20, and for 1-year prevalence rate in the general population is estimated at 5 percent. These numbers indicate that the phenomenon of recurrent brief depressive disorder is the most common disorder among young adults.


Etiology
Alleged that patients with recurrent brief depressive disorder has been linked to patients with major depressive disorder. Several biological abnormalities in patients with major depressive disorder indicate that. Variables including dexamethasone suppression test nonsuppression in-(DST), blunted response to thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), and shorten rapid eye movement (REM) sleep latency. These data are consistent with the idea that recurrent brief depressive disorder has a strong relationship with major depressive disorder in the etiology and pathophysiology.

Diagnosis and Clinical Features
The specific criteria for recurrent brief depressive disorder that the duration of interruption for each episode of symptoms is less than 2 weeks. However, the criteria for recurrent brief depressive disorder, had similar diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder. There is one difference that thin, that patients with recurrent brief depressive disorder will experience changes in their mood, which would make their lives seem more disturbed or chaotic than patients with major depressive disorder, in which a depressive episode in major depressive disorder occurs in the speed and the measured period.

Differential diagnosis
Bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder with seasonal pattern should be considered in differential diagnosis. Recurrent brief depressive disorders may be indistinguishable from symptoms of rapid cycling in bipolar disorder. Doctors also must determine whether there are seasonal patterns in the recurrence of depressive episodes.

Course and Prognosis
Courses, including age of onset, and prognosis are similar to major depressive disorder.


Treatment
The procedure of treatment of patients with recurrent brief depressive disorder similar to the treatment of patients with major depressive disorder. Some treatments for bipolar I disorder is lithium (Eskalith) and anticonvulsants may be of therapeutic value.