PSYC 376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Amygdala, Moodle, Anhedonia
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Mental health issues that would keep people from voting: social anxiety believe they will question your choices, depression don"t believe they can make a difference; hard to make effort to leave house to do it. Sad, depressed mood: most of day, most days for at least two weeks. Loss of interest and pleasure (anhedonia: things that usually make you feel better are no long pleasurable. Decrease in weight/appetite/ increase in appetite/weight gain. Shift in activity level: psychomotor retardation or agitation. Negative self-concept, self-reproach, self-blame, feelings of worthlessness and guilt. Difficulty concentrating (e. g. , slowed thinking or indecisiveness: difficulty remembering; when distressed, they are distracting from paying attention. When you see depression, you look for underlying anxiety. Anxiety usually proceeds to a point, until it cannot be handled and becomes depression. Somatic or vegetative symptoms may be key: in other parts of the world, they don"t focus on the psychological. Unipolar (depression or mania) bipolar (both)
