PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bipolar Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Major Depressive Disorder
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Mood disorders: depression is sad affect but more significant. Frequency, intensity and duration: flat affect is lack of emotion, mood disorders have been removed - kept the disorders but don"t call them mood, mood is an emotion. It only lasts for a certain amount of time - dog dies/sad for 2 weeks. Dsm-5 says if there"s intensity for it, we need to treat it right away: unipolar disorder (depression, major depression, dysthymic disorder. Won"t go away, people are sad all the time. Looks like it"s built-in, part of their personality. Persistent feeling of sadness and despair/ doesn"t go away. Dsm-4 said if you feel intense sadness after significant other dies, It stays, it"s strong, to the point where you can"t function anymore. It disrupts physical functioning: eat, sleep, hormone changes, perceptual changes, social loner changes, Key symptom is significant sad affect, dsm also says the lack of ability to enjoy things you enjoyed before.
