PSYC 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Psychomotor Agitation, Mania, Sleep Disorder

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 412
• Professor: Melanie Dirks

Document Summary

If so; what does it look like: different manifestations of the same underlying problem we see in adults. Decreased need for sleep (e. g. , feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep) More talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking. Flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing distractibility (i. e. , attention too easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli) Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work ot school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation. Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e. g. , sexual behaviour, shopping, gambling: depressive episode, meets criteria for a major depressive episode, hypomanic episode, same as manic episode except: Represents a change in functioning for the person. No marked impairment in social or occupational functioning: dsm diagnoses, bipolar i. Person is experiencing episodes that include symptoms of both mania and depression (e. g. , manic episode in which some symptoms of depression are present: bipolar ii.