PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lithium Carbonate, Olanzapine, Valproate
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What is similar about the intrusive thoughts of healthy samples and people with. Medication remains the first prescribed and most-prescribed. Recommended as first-line by many guideline panels: tricyclic antidepressants, mao inhibitors, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Some sort of trigger in the environment someone with depression might. Cognitive behaviour therapy also empirically supported think (cid:498)i"m no good, i"ll never make it, i"ll never get a job(cid:499) failure oriented. Behaviour stay in room and watch netflix. Change thoughts from (cid:498)i"m a failure(cid:499) to (cid:498)i"m still a worthwhile human(cid:499) If you change one area, you will see change in another area. To change thoughts: we use cognitive techniques: what patterns do thoughts follow. Challenging: getting them to do something even though they do not want to. Increase motivation: weekly activity schedule, value their likes, getting them to do just a little bit more without setting the bar too, not everything is your fault oneself and improving.