CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Major Depressive Episode, Suicidal Ideation, Psychomotor Agitation

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P35
• Professor: John Mc Namara

Document Summary

Suicide accounts for 24% of all deaths among individuals ages 15-24. The mortality rate due to suicide among men is four times the rate among women. Almost one half (49%) of those who feel they have suffered from depression or anxiety have never gone to see a doctor about this problem. Once depression is recognized, help can make a difference for 80% of people who are affected, allowing them to get back to their regular activities. Response to painful physical stimuli is moderated in the brain by serotonin. Shared neurologic pathway links social experiences to biological processes that affect the development or progression of disease, primarily via the sympathetic nervous system (sns) and the hypothalamus- pituitary-adrenal (hpa) axis. Well-being will always be linked to our social connectedness. Socially painful experiences, such as exclusion or rejection, are processed by some of the same neural regions that process physical pain.