PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Learned Helplessness, Cyclothymia, Substance Abuse
17 Dec 2013
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Extreme highs and lows on spectrum of emotions: low depression disorders, high manic and hypomania disorders. Unipolar feeling low or high at different times. Mixed episode both at the same time. Most depressed people are anxious but not all anxious people are depressed. Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder has to be developmental inappropriate and child"s mood has to be relatively irritable. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder can include anxiety, depressed mood, difficulty concentrating, changes in appetite and sleep. In order to be a disorder, have to cause significant impairment in life to get diagnosis. Psychotic less likely to respond to treatment, hallucinations can be auditory or visual. Postpartum has to be within 4 weeks after childbirth, very common . Feeling sad or empty most of the day almost every day. Reduced interest in activities that were once enjoyable. Significant unintentional weight loss/gain or change in appetite. Withdrawal from friends and activities they once enjoyed. Doesn"t cause impaired functioning that manic episode would.
