PSYCH 3830 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Anhedonia, Mania, Major Depressive Episode

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3830
• Professor: Jo Jorgensen

Document Summary

Obsessions: intrusive thoughts and urges that you can"t voluntarily. Tends to be senseless (opening and closing a door 5 times) Used to be an anxiety disorder but now has it"s own category. Just having anxiety doesn"t make it an anxiety disorder. There are neurobiological differences between anxiety disorder and ocd. Compulsions: behaviors, thoughts, or actions to provide relief. Average age of onset is 19 years old. Causes: thought-action fusion (equating having a thought with the action) Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders eliminate; when try to suppress, the thoughts get worse, more prevalent disorder) If there is an actual defect, it appears slight to others. Average number of body parts that they are concerned about is 6. Get no added benefit from the drugs (different than anxiety. Majority of people with the disorder do get plastic surgery. Excessive collecting of minimal value objects (or sometimes no value) Depression and bipolar disorder (bipolar depression looks different than.