PSY342H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Likert Scale, Behavioral Activation, Tinn
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1/5 pl will become clinically depressed: more common in women, biochemical imbalance, you can treat most ppl w drugs, but cbt more successful than pharmacotherapy, dysthymic disorder: chronic depression, usually developed in late adolescence (sometimes before, not as sad as ppl w mdd, interferes w your fn"ing but you prob don"t want to hurt yourself, not as common as mdd, major depressive disorder (mdd), most depression is acute goes away, one symptom of depr is you feel sad affect, you feel like it won"t go away but usually it does! If you treat bipolar w antidepr (cid:224) no changes: normally treat w lithium, misdiagnosis is big problem, no longer duration requirement for mdd, removed since want to treat ppl sooner, problem: overdiagnosis, according to new definition, grief is abnormal, double depression, uncommon, have both mdd & dysthymic disorder, harder to treat, reliability questioned, always being changed, you could misdiagnose someone w mdd if don"t see the mania.
