Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Major Depressive Disorder, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Postpartum Depression

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Psychology 2030a chapter 6 lecture 5. Episodic depressed mood and episodic mania: continuum depression on one end, manic state on the other. Long term illness: no cure, lifelong treatment and clinical management. Categories: bipolar i full blown mania alternates with episodes of major depression. Full blown mania no need to eat or sleep, very agitated, sexually promiscuous. Depression lose interest in everything, very negative: bipolar ii hypomania elevation that is abnormal yet not severe enough to impair functioning or require hospitalization. A period of abnormal elevated or irritable mood lasting for at least one week or requires hospitalization. Inflated self esteem: decreased need for sleep, talkativeness, flight of ideas quickly going from one idea to other without logical connection, distractibility. Have fluctuations that alternate between hypomania and depression. Episodes not as severe as with mania or major depression, but causes impairment. Mixed state is symptoms of mania and depression that occur at the same time.