Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

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I am a student Nurse and I would like to get your help regarding one of my classes. I need to find articles or websites I can use as a research tool regarding this question:

"How does mood disorder affect ADL?"

Can someone help me please? Thank you.

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

Do you know what a mood disorder is? What course is this for? I don't want to write paragraphs, because that would be doing your homework for you. If you know what a mood disorder is, what do you think it would do to ADLs? Do you have a textbook that has mood disorders in it? If you have that text, the whole topic will be covered in it.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Click on this link for more information and notes on psychiatric nursing:

http://www.angelfire.com/ns/southeasternnurse/psychiatricnursing.html

Patients with certain mood disorders (especially MDD and unipolar depression) are often too zapped of their energy to invest any time in eating, bathing, dressing, and other ADLs. It is common for a patient with a mood disorder to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital with a disheveled appearance, greasy hair that has not been washed in weeks, wrinkled clothing, and overall poor upkeep.

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Specializes in Addictions, Acute Psychiatry.

"I'm depressed, I don't feel like doing sh&*"

"Do you want to eat?" "NO" Do you want to shower "NO"

"Your clothes reek of 6 month old dead animal; ground hog to be specific...maybe you'd like to change?" "NO, I don't feel like doing sh&*^....(being self conscious from the smell, he tells everyone to get TF of his room and leave him TF alone because changing, showering, eating is just too much...life sucks...rather sleep or think and ruminate why I don't have a ******* nursing job in this "shortage"....

...and I also have terrible insomnia...it's 2:22am! I must be depressed (with no job yet) LOL!

How's that for a starter?

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Maybe you can be creative and go to the hospital/nursing homes and observe the patients with mood disorder. It'll be interesting to write about your experience.

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I would also look for information on how the mania aspect of bipolar disorder can affect ADLs, as I imagine people in a full-blown manic state would not be able to slow down enough to accomplish certain ADLs.

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Specializes in Addictions, Acute Psychiatry.

find a friend who's done crack or crystal meth and ask em about it. I've found those on downers or opiates often mirror those with depressive disorders and the uppers mimic the manic one's. LSD, Ecstasy, Mushrooms (psychosis), Speed, Crystal meth, Cocaine, Crack (mania), quaaludes, opium, heroin, valium, mimic some depressive disorders, etc, etc Just an easy way to remember it...

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