Psychology 2320A/B Lecture 6: Psychology 2042B Lecture 6 notes.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2320A/B
• Professor: Prof

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Depressive disorders: excessive unhappiness (dysphoria) and loss of interest in activities (anhedonia) Irritability is one of the most common symptoms of depression, occurring in 80% of clinic-referred, children with depression. Problem for diagnosing irritability is not unique to depression. Etc: depression seems to happen in cycles average episode lasts 8 months. Difficulty concentration, loss of interest, and slowness of thought and move ment are likely to have a harmful effect on intellectual and academic functioning: interference with academic performance, but not necessarily related to intellectual deficits. Most common methods: drug overdose and wrist cutting. A part of them wants to live, however, death seems like the only way out of their pain and suffering. They may allow themselves to gamble with death, leaving it up to the others to save them: myth: men are more likely to be suicidal, fact: man are 4 times more likely to kill themselves than women.