Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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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 disorganized thinking, withdrawn and hallucinations !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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