Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Mental disorders!
ā¢Mental illness was not always considered mental or illness !
ā¢perspectives !
ā¢medical !
ā¢brian lesion !
ā¢neurochemical imbalance!
ā¢psychodynamic!
ā¢freudian approche !
ā¢unconscious conļ¬ict !
ā¢humanistic!
ā¢people are always striving to be the best they can be and things that get in
there way is what we need to help people with !
ā¢whats stopping us form achieving our full potential!
ā¢cognitive-behavioural!
ā¢how individuals process information and how are they thinking !
ā¢sociocultural !
ā¢cultures considerations!
ā¢classifying disorders !
ā¢need for taxonomy !
ā¢scientiļ¬c purpose or practical purpose !
ā¢look up symptoms and we call it a syndrome!
ā¢ex. disorganized thinking, withdrawn and hallucinations !
ā¢call it schizophrenia !
ā¢until 1970 we called disorders either neurosis or psychosis !
ā¢neurosis !
ā¢means root cause is anxiety !
ā¢ex. phobia where your still in touch with reality!
ā¢psychosis!
ā¢means thought disturbance!
ā¢ex. schizophrenia where you lost touch with reality !
ā¢early classiļ¬cation was by cause !
ā¢so now we shifted to observable symptoms!
ā¢DSM 5!
ā¢used to diagnose mental disorders now a days !
DSM5
ā¢psychological disorders !
ā¢anxiety disorders!
ā¢generalized anxiety disorder!
ā¢panic disorder!
ā¢phobic disorder!
ā¢OCD and PTSD used to be part of the anxiety disorder category but they are
not anymore !
ā¢somatic symptom disorders!
ā¢physical problem but their is nothing wrong with he workings of your body or
nervous system !
ā¢dissociative disorders!
ā¢dissociative amnesia!
ā¢dissociative fugue!
ā¢dissociative identity disorder !
ā¢mood disorders!
ā¢major depression!
ā¢bipolar disorder!
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ā¢schizophrenic disorders!
ā¢lost touchwith relaity!
ā¢no longer have organized or coherent thought !
ā¢personality disorders !
ā¢used to be 12-15 and now there is 6 !
ā¢ex antisocial personality disorder!
Depression
ā¢mood disorder is characterized by disturbances in mood rather than thought !
ā¢if you feel too hight at is mania!
ā¢if you feel too low that is depression!
ā¢unipolar or major depression!
ā¢patient experiences only the despair of depression !
ā¢need to feel that low feeling for 4 weeks!
ā¢10% of men and 20% of women !
ā¢bipolar disorder !
ā¢patient swings from one extreme to the other !
ā¢about 10 episodes of each state during life !
ā¢if untreated each phase could last for months !
ā¢rapid cycle !
ā¢4 or more swings per year !
ā¢mania!
ā¢they are completely oļ¬ the wall!
ā¢constantly moving thoughts !
ā¢unable to sit still!
ā¢jumps from unbounded elation to intense irritation !
ā¢acute form of bipolar disorder!
ā¢endless tlak !
ā¢no inhibitions!
ā¢grandiose plans (saving world or universe)!
ā¢insomnia !
ā¢ceaseless torrent of activity !
ā¢need to be sedated !
ā¢major depression!
ā¢patient appears utterly dejected , hopeless, worthless!
ā¢will try suicide and want to die !
ā¢may be hallucinations or delusions !
ā¢loss of petite, sleep disturbances, fatigue, little interest in sex and suicide !
ā¢Suicide !
ā¢suicide occurs every 40 seconds!
ā¢in north america it is 1 person every 16.5 minutes or 32000 per year!
ā¢ļ¬rst nations have higher rates of suicide!
ā¢risk for suciide is low while patient is in the worst depression !
ā¢risk increases as patient comes out of depression !
ā¢rates highest on weekend leaves and or shortly after discharge !
ā¢What causes depression?!
ā¢etiology !
ā¢bipolar disorder!
ā¢identical twins have four ties the rate of having it then maternal twins!
ā¢biological parents have a 3 times concordance likely hood then
adoptive!
ā¢Egland et.al looked at gene disorder in Amish population !
ā¢63% developed bipolar disorder!
ā¢they marry their own !
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