PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Suicidal Ideation
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Disorders of happiness are less common than disorders of sadness. Two major mood disorders: unipolar disorder of which major depression is the most common, bipolar disorder manic depression, cycle between mania and depression. Causes of disorders mechanisms are still not well understood, involve nt, not everyone treated benefits from it. Woman has bipolar disorder, cycles of mania and depression are experienced. Man asked to be eliminated from the earth, asked the doctor depression tends to be recurrent or chronic, deal with essence of our capacity to deal with the world. Bipolar disorder is a form of mood disorder, it is not a psychosis people mistake bipolar disorder for a psychosis, when it is not but there can be psychotic symptoms associated with it. Example for diagnosis, we only see the client at one point in time, so if we see them when they are having psychotic symptoms associated with their bipolar depression, it can be easily misdiagnosed as schizophrenia".
