Viatris, a global healthcare company, collaborated with the Thai Hypertension Society and the Thai NCD Collaboration Group to organize the NCDs in Focus Act Now! Summit 2022 in Bangkok on October 29 th and 30 th. Severe depression: Meets diagnostic criteria and has incapacitating symptoms.Moderate depression: Meets depression diagnostic criteria and cannot overcome symptoms with extra effort but not incapacitated.Mild depression: Meets minimal depression diagnostic criteria and can function with extra effort.Severity of symptoms may be estimated based on its impact on patient’s daily functioning.The depressive symptoms cause significant impairment or distress in social, occupational or other areas of function, are not caused by the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition, not better explained by a schizoaffective disorder or other psychotic disorders, and there has never been an episode of mania or hypomania.Recurrent thoughts of death or suicidal ideation (with or without a specific plan).Diminished ability to concentrate or make decisions.Sense of diminished or loss of self-worth and inappropriate guilt.Changes in appetite, weight gain or weight loss (when not dieting). ![]() Diminished interest or pleasure in activities.Depressed mood that is either self-reported or observable.A major depressive episode requires that at least 5 or more of the following symptoms (one of which must either be depressed mood or diminished interest or pleasure in activities) must be present for most of nearly every day for 2 weeks.The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) criteria for postpartum depression have a peripartum onset specifier (ie onset of depressive symptoms occurs during pregnancy or within 4 weeks after delivery) that can be applied to major depressive episode criteria.
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