PSYC 2490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Trait Theory, Dysthymia, Early Summer

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2490
• Professor: Leda Worobec

Document Summary

Sleep habits: cognitive changes, >/= 5 or more symptoms have to be present during the same 2 week period and, 1 of the symptoms should be, depressed mood. Dysphoria increases in intensity and occur in waves associated with reminders of decreasess. Pain of grief may be accompanied by positive emotions or humor. Inability to experience pleasure and persistent depressed mood. Seasonal affective disorder (sad: people feel more down in the winter months, type of depression related to changes in seasons, begins and ends at about the same times every year, more common in women than in men. Symptoms often start in the fall and continue into the winter months. Less often, sad causes depression in the spring or early summer: fatigue, excessive sleep. If our sleep is messed up then everything else also changes: craving for carbohydrates, people look at this as a survival aspect, weight gain, deficiency in mood, phototherapy.