HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture 3: Mood Disorder
19 Sep 2016
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Bridge between psychotic disorder, and mood disorder. There are no clear boundaries between schizophrenia and other disorders: genetic overlap between schizophrenia and bipolar, lots of misdiagnosis, bipolar and schizophrenia might be related through genetics. E. g. some one could be diagnosed with bipolar and later on in life be diagnosed with schizophrenia (or vice versa) Discrete diseases (schizophrenia/bipolar) or a group of diseases (the. Schizophrenias : are they variants of the same thing, e. g. the types of cancer. I am invincible! : delusional or manic belief, it"s not clear, the ideas blend into each other. Mood- sustained, not emotion: how someone feels over days/weeks/months. Affect what others see: face, voice, body movement. Episodes periods in time when behaviors/feelings are dominated by mania or depression. It has a halo affect it surround an entire person and shapes how we see the world. Cycles between episodes of mania and depression: one pole from the other, high to low.
