PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Mood Disorder, Frontal Lobe, Jackson Pollock
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At least 2 weeks of 5 of the following: Some famous examples: chris brown, jim carey, russell brand, Kurt cobain, mel gibson, demi lovato, frank sinatra, jackson. When you are feeling a certain emotion, you tend to think of things that match that emotion. When you are sad, you think of sad things. You can get stuck in this cycle, very difficult to think of good things. About 3 million people with mood disorders. About double the chances for a woman to have a mood disorder. Most depressive episodes run their course, but end on their own. A depressed person spends about 75% of their time feeling fine. For people with major depressive order may have been triggered by a stressful situation, significant life change. Depression is seeming to hit people earlier, more in adolescence. It is increased if a family member has it too. People who are depressed, the frontal lobe is 7% smaller.
