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What are the psychological effects of essential tremors?
ET is chronic and progressive, and patients often feel a worsening of symptoms over time even when their tremor remains stable. In addition to motor features, patients may experience a range of non-motor features, including anxiety, social phobia, depression, and sleep dysregulation.
ET is chronic and progressive, and patients often feel a worsening of symptoms over time even when their tremor remains stable. In addition to motor features, patients may experience a range of non-motor features, including anxiety, social phobia, depression, and sleep dysregulation.
What Affective and Behavioral Symptoms Are Associated with ET?
Depression and anxiety occur with high frequency in patients with movement disorders. At the same time, depression is severely underrecognized by clinicians who treat patients with movement disorders, quite possibly owing to the significant clinical overlap between these conditions. Symptoms common to movement disorders and depression are as follows.
Depression and anxiety occur with high frequency in patients with movement disorders. At the same time, depression is severely underrecognized by clinicians who treat patients with movement disorders, quite possibly owing to the significant clinical overlap between these conditions. Symptoms common to movement disorders and depression are as follows.
Symptoms
The behaviors listed below may be signs that someone is thinking about suicide.
- Talking about wanting to die or wanting to kill themselves
- Making a plan or looking for a way to kill themselves, such as searching online, stockpiling pills, or buying a gun
- Talking about great guilt or shame
- Talking about feeling trapped or feeling that there are no solutions
- Feeling unbearable pain or unbearable pain (emotional pain or physical pain)
- Talking about being a burden to others
- Using alcohol or drugs more often
- Acting anxious or agitated
- Withdrawing from family and friends, isolating themselves
- Changing eating and/or sleeping habits. Sleeping too little or too much
- Showing rage or talking about seeking revenge
- Taking great risks that could lead to death, such as driving extremely fast
- Talking or thinking about death often
- Displaying extreme mood swings,
- Giving away important possessions
- Talking about feeling empty, hopeless, or having no reason to live
- Saying goodbye to friends and family
- Putting affairs in order, making a will
- Persistent sad, anxious, or "empty" mood
- Sleeping too much or too little; middle of the night or early morning waking
- Weight fluctuations; reduced appetite and weight loss, or increased appetite and weight gain
- Loss of pleasure and interest in activities once enjoyed, including sex
- Restlessness, irritability
- Persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment (such as chronic pain or digestive disorders)
- Difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions
- Fatigue or loss of energy
- Feeling guilty, hopeless, or worthless
- Thoughts of suicide or death
Parkinsonism & Related Disorders Volume 98, May 2022, Pages 16-20
Essential tremor (ET), a common movement disorder, is characterized by motor, cognitive, and psychiatric symptoms. Depressed mood, a symptom of ET, has historically been viewed as a psychological response to disability. However, depressive symptoms are emerging as a predictor of cognitive decline across several clinical populations. We examined if depressive symptoms predict a decline in global cognition, memory, and executive functioning among older adults with ET.
Psychological Suffering in Essential Tremor: A Study of Patients and Those Who Are Close to Them
Learn the Warning Signs of Suicide
What Should I Do if I Am in Crisis or Someone I Know Is Considering Suicide?
If you or someone you know has warning signs or symptoms of suicide, particularly if there is a change in the behavior or a new behavior, get help as soon as possible.
Often, family and friends are the first to recognize the warning signs of suicide and can take the first step toward helping an at-risk individual find treatment with someone who specializes in diagnosing and treating mental health conditions. If someone is telling you that they are going to kill themselves, do not leave them alone. Do not promise anyone that you will keep their suicidal thoughts a secret. Make sure to tell a trusted friend or family member, or if you are a student, an adult with whom you feel comfortable.
What Should I Do if I Am in Crisis or Someone I Know Is Considering Suicide?
If you or someone you know has warning signs or symptoms of suicide, particularly if there is a change in the behavior or a new behavior, get help as soon as possible.
Often, family and friends are the first to recognize the warning signs of suicide and can take the first step toward helping an at-risk individual find treatment with someone who specializes in diagnosing and treating mental health conditions. If someone is telling you that they are going to kill themselves, do not leave them alone. Do not promise anyone that you will keep their suicidal thoughts a secret. Make sure to tell a trusted friend or family member, or if you are a student, an adult with whom you feel comfortable.
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If You Know Someone in Crisis get help as soon as possible.
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