Somatic Depressive Symptoms, Vital Exhaustion, and Fatigue

Somatic depressive symptoms, vital exhaustion, and fatigue: divergent validity of overlapping constructs.

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Fatigue and somatic symptoms.

Association of vital exhaustion and depressive symptoms with changes in fibrin D-dimer to acute psychosocial stress.

OBJECTIVE Vital exhaustion and depression are psychosocial risk factors of coronary artery disease. A hypercoagulable state in response to acute psychosocial stress contributes to atherothrombotic events. We aimed to investigate the hypothesis that vital exhaustion and depression correlate with stress-induced changes in the hypercoagulability marker D-dimer. METHODS Thirty-eight healthy and n...

17beta-estradiol reduced depressive and somatic symptoms in perimenopausal women.

Patients 50 women who were 40 to 55 years of age (mean age 50 y); had a history of menstrual cycle irregularity or amenorrhoea for < 12 months; had a serum concentration of follicle-stimulating hormone > 25 IU/l; and had been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, or minor depressive disorder. Exclusion criteria were medical illness; hormone replacement therapy or psychoa...

Cognitive Mechanisms Reciprocally Transmit Vulnerability between Depressive and Somatic Symptoms

Despite high comorbidity between depressive and somatic symptoms, cognitive mechanisms that transmit vulnerability between symptom clusters are largely unknown. Dampening, positive rumination, and brooding are three cognitive predictors of depression, with rumination theoretically indicated as a transdiagnostic vulnerability through amplifying and diminishing affect in response to events. Speci...