Psychotic Features: mood-congruent vs. Mood incongruent psychosis
Melancholic Features = (andogenous) don't need any external stressor, it's biological/genetic, hypersomnia,
Atypical Features = increased appetites and insomnia, extreme rejection sensitivity, intact mood reactivity (so not anhedonic)
- Responds best to MAOI's not tricyclics (SSRI's)
- MOST COMMON
Seasonal Pattern: Seasonal Affective Disorder = when ppl consistently experience depressed mood in the winter months
Peri/Postpartum Onset: onset in last month of pregnancy or post-birth
Chronic Major Depression = meet full criteria for MDD and lasts 2+ years
- Less responsive to most treatments