A depressive thought or a suicidal thought won't kill you.
Using the Interacting Cognitive Subsystems model [Affect, Cognition and Change: Re-modelling Depressive Thought, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hove, 1993], some specific macro-theoretic variables are identified.
In our discussion, we dare each other to have an anxious or depressive thought while doing an open-heart posture, and we can not.
Depressive thought content reflects themes like negative evaluations of the self, the world, and the future, [ 13, 14] whereas anxious thought content reflects only future-oriented concerns with an anticipation of physical or psychological threats and an inability to cope [ 15, 16].
The CIS-R establishes the severity of core symptoms of depressive disorders (depression, depressive thoughts, fatigue, sleep and concentration problems), along with diagnostic cut-points for depressive disorders, using algorithms based on ICD-10 criteria.
The version we used derives an ICD-10 diagnosis as well as symptom severity scores for depression, depressive thoughts, anxiety, panic, phobia, sleep, concentration, and fatigue, on a scale of 0 4.
A depression severity score based on the sum of the ICD-10 symptom criteria in the CIS-R (depression, depressive thoughts, sleep and concentration problems and fatigue; range 0-21, Cronbach's α = 0.77) was used as an adjustment in analyses of individual depression symptoms (see below).
The kinds of cognitions that characterise depression and catastrophism are also different: depressive thoughts are related to depression and similar concepts, such as inferiority, guilt or suicide.
We examined whether earlier findings obtained in OCD patients also hold for depression by investigating the sensory properties of depressive thoughts in a mildly to moderately depressed sample.
Depressive thoughts were assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) depression subscale, with higher scores indicating poorer mental health (range 0 21) (Zigmond and Snaith, 1983).
Furthermore, we examined whether sensory properties of depressive thoughts would be associated with depression severity, suicidality, decreased illness insight and lower quality of life.
