PSYC 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hallucination, Rigid Body, Word Salad
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Prone people respond to bad events in self-focused and self-blaming way. Stable it"s going to last forever. Global it"s going to affect everything. Pessimistic, overgeneralized and self-blaming attributions may be a depressing sense of hopelessness. Seligman depression is common among young westerners because the rise of individualism and decline of commitment to religion. Family have forced young people to take personal responsibility for failure or. Depression is often brought on by stressful experiences and by anything that disrupts rejection sense of who we are and why we are worthy. Leads to brooding which amplifies negative feelings. Being withdrawn, self-focused, and complaining can by itself elicit rejection. Negative stressful events interpreted through a ruminating, pessimistic explanatory style create a hopeless, depressed state that hampers the way the person thinks and acts. In turn fuels negative, stressful experiences such as rejection. Schizophrenia split mind; a psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression.