PSYC1023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Catatonia, Valproate, Psychogenic Amnesia
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Did is linked to childhood trauma, this is a correlation. One personality + childhood trauma = trauma memory goes into separate part of the brain and forms 2nd personality (link) Did is misdiagnosed and some patients may be role-playing (faking). Dissociative amnesia (loss of memory from trauma event) and fugue (memory loss of identity) are other dissociative disorders. Bipolar is normal to manic to depressed. Emotional, cognitive and motor problems characterise depression. Depression is about twice as common in women than in men, this is a sex difference. Depression many recur (fluctuate from good to bad), can result from ruminations (continuing thinking about a problem, cow chewing), learned helplessness or a pessimistic (my fault vs. In bipolar disorder, manic (energetic, excited, new theory, too happy to a crash) and depressive episodes separately occur. Bipolar disorder affects about 2% of the population (with no sex differences)
