PSY 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Charlie Sheen, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Social supports helps during this time (***) instead of ect so the women does not get post-partum: post partum depression used to be called baby blues. In some cases those baby blues are sometimes depression: exam: 20% of people who suffer from major depression will only experience one symptom. Sheen had rapid cycling (4 episodes/year: he was misdiagnosed with bipolar. Instructor thinks: cocaine and narcissistic (may not be diagnosable, personality disorder, everyone thought it was being fired--but it was stress that triggered it. Stress of two and a half men and his diagnosis of hiv and blackmail: narcissism combined with cocaine, borderline is up down like every other day approx, there should be no way this is misdiagnosed. So many gp"s misdiagnose borderline personality disorder with. Bipolar disorder: narcissistic personality disorder, when someone answers confidently you believe them (narcissistic trait/approach)