2017 Volume 63 Issue 1 Pages 16-21
Depression has actually has wide variety of types including endogenous depression, depressive state caused by developmental disorders, personality disorders and even alcohol dependence. Therefore, mental health physicians should not take workers in depressive state as simply having (endogenous) depression. This article reviews how we should deal with developmental disorders and personality problems in workplace. Both disorders are of spectrum nature, where there are no clear boundaries between what they call normal and abnormal, something vague in terms of clinical diagnosis. Moreover, there is no magic bullet against both disorders. The clinicians should interact with occupational physicians communicating how this worker doing in the workplace in an active environment, not only how he/she act in the medical environment.