PSYC 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mood Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder
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Mood disorders: two key emotions on a continuum: Depression mania: depression, low, sad state in which life seems dark & overwhelming, mania, state of breathless euphoria or frenzied energy, most with a mood disorder experience only depression; called unipolar depression. No history of mania: some people experience period of depression that alternate with periods of mania; called bipolar disorder. Unipolar depression: the term depression is used to describe general sadness/ unhappiness & moodiness, confuses normal mood swings with the clinical syndrome, clinical depression entails severe & long-lasting psychological pain that can intensify over time. How common is unipolar depression: 9% of u. s experiences severe unipolar depression per year, another 5% have milder depression, similar in canada, england, france, & west. 2 week: most have another episode over time. The biological view: genetic factors, family pedigree, twin, adoption, and gene studies suggest that some people inherit a predisposition, 30% relatives of depressed clients are depressed; less than.
