HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture 13: The "Limits of Mental Illness"
10 Nov 2016
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Over 50% of people who have mood disorders develop drug or alcohol dependencies at some point in their life. Medical model: speci c diagnoses, treated all separately, each disease has own casual agent. Frequent comorbidity with anxiety and eating disorders. Wheres the line - feeling anxious in response to eating disorder? dif cult to know if one is cause and effect, cause and consequence, or two separate. Not all people who commit suicide are depressed, perhaps 50% suffered from mood disorder. Far more likely to complete suicide, perhaps 35x more likely. One can identify normal and abnormal without dif culty, but the line is not clear. How much is against will? how much is choice? problematic. Hyper-sexuality for a normal person v. a politician. You are you diagnoses, expressed through thinking/feelings/actions/ behaviour. In most menstrual cycles during the past year, ve of the following during week before menses. Affective liability (ex. mood swings, sensitivity to rejection)
