HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Major Depressive Disorder, Major Depressive Episode, Psychomotor Agitation
14 Nov 2017
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Rates of depression and bipolar disorder have gone up substantially in recent decades. Experience in which you feel very good, confident, energized, flirtatious, grandiosity. Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities with high potential for consequences. Crash: hypomania: super functional semi-mania (bipolar type 2) Taking normal childhood behaviours and turning them into symptoms of mental disorder. Pms is a culturally appropriate way to deal with stress. Included in the dsm only after the launch of fluoxetine (prozac) The great depression : the people who are being diagnosed with depression are getting younger, depression is the leading reason for disability. By fighting, we are inadvertently exposing people to depression. Twitter study; maybe depressed people are drawn to social media rather than social media causing depression by itself. Depression and culture: concepts of depression are not universal across cultures. Idea that some cultural groups were incapable of experiencing depression. African individuals were too simple to experience depression.
