Texas Medical Association designates this educational activity for up to 1 hour in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Estimated time for this activity is one hour. CME credits are distributed within two weeks of receipt of completed paperwork. The most commonly encountered personality disorder traits are narcissism, obsessive-compulsiveness and antisocial. Mood disorders are more common in married people.
Major depression has a higher prevalence in females.
The characteristic symptoms of depression include depressed mood and changes in appetite and sleep. Dysthymic disorder involves a chronic depressed mood experience on most days for more than two years and is sometimes under diagnosed. The average age for a first manic episode is 32 years old. More than half of physicians who completed suicide self-prescribed medication. The first step to access care is to stop denying there is a problem.