PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Conduct Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Depressive disorders: sometimes depression lasts for a long time, moderate depressive symptoms that last for more than 2 years are referred to as dysthymia, when dysthymia is punctuated by episodes of major depression: it is double depression. Excessive involvement in activities with a potential for painful consequences. Increase in goal directed behavior or psychomotor agitation: prevalence. Not different between women and men: onset. Mean of age of first episode= 18 years. Onset can occur for the first time in 60s or 70s: prognosis. 90% of individuals who experience a manic episode will experience more of them throughout life. Full remission is very rare: risk factors. Genetic (among the most heritable disorders; coincidence among identical twins=40- Environmental (high stress; highly emotionally expressive family members. Personality disorders: distorted thinking patterns, problematic emotional responses, over- or under regulated impulse control and, there are 10 personality disorders in the dsm.
