PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Antisocial Personality Disorder, Heritability, Involuntary Commitment

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1002
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

Winter blues: lack of energy, sleeping too much (lethargic, sad mood, pessimism, over-eating (craving carbohydrates) Qualifiers: episodes during a particular time of year, remissions of mania/hypomania, patterns must have lasted for at least 2 years during the same period, episodes must outnumber other episodes. Disruptive aspect of condition must occur at frequent times versus other symptoms: people who are predisposed to sad are also predisposed to have anxiety (rare) Summer sad: symptoms of classic depression (insomnia, anxiety, irritability, decreased appetite, weight loss, social withdrawal, and a deceased sex drive) Life therapy is the most promising treatment: an environment with bright light alleviates most symptoms. Class of disorders that characterized by disturbed thought patterns, as opposed to disturbed emotions, which is a characteristic of mood disorders. General symptoms: delusions and irrational thought, deterioration of adaptive behaviour, hallucinations, disturbed emotions. Paranoid type: delusions of persecution and grandeur.