PSY341H1 Lecture Notes - Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar I Disorder, Major Depressive Episode
Document Summary
Mood disorders run the spectrum from severe depression to extreme mania and involve extreme, persistent, or poorly regulated emotional states. Dsm-iv-tr divides mood disorders into two general categories: Depressive disorders: irritability and angry in depressed children, behavioral disorders. Easiest emotion to feel is anger-effortless, eventually become sad. Bipolar disorder: mood swings, cycling through being depressed to a low to a high mood. A pervasive unhappy mood disorder-longevity, more severe than mood swings. Generally people regularly feel mood swings in the population, is normal. Children who are depressed can"t shake their sadness; it interferes with their daily routines, social relationships, school performance, and overall functioning ie/trouble going to school, in social relation groups, eating a meal with family. Biggest problem is that it goes unrecognized, bad picking up young children but not for teens. Over 800,000 teens in u. s. suffer from depression yearly. Over half of them are suicidal- half a million attempting suicide.
