PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Eating Disorder, Dsm-5, Impulsivity

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Most people who get diagnosed, get more than one diagnosed to them. Some people have in fact pushed to a more continuum and non-categorical way but they chickened out because they felt the world was not ready for that. Axis 2: will not change and will impact likelihood of changes. Have taken out axis but clinicians still use these terms. They are meant to enduring patterns and ways of interacting with the world persons inner experience and outer behaviour. This pattern deviates from cultural norms: cognition: emotions, interpersonal functioning, interest in social relationships and impulse control and impulsivity. Purpose of this class and this course, these are what we use as disorders. Inflexible and pervasive, it"s a cross context, across setting and time. It also causes impairment or distress, they are not bothered by their personality disorder. It has to be stable and long standing, does not mean we might not see precursors to it at a younger age.

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