PSY E245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Hypersomnia, Mood Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder
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Mood disorders (in general): disturbance in emotion. e. g. sadness, happiness, anger, elation, and or hostility. Diminished interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed. Anhedonia: loss of pleasure, red flag, nothing can bump oneself up, hopeless. Alogia: poverty of speech, inability to conversation, take too much time to process others speech and come back with an answer. But can"t feel fresh, still exhausted when wake up. Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day. Physiological feeling, thin people feel weight, can"t drag themselves up. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt. Train people don"t listen to your thoughts. Diminished ability to think, concentrate, or indecisiveness. Behavior: have difficulty talking, isolate from friends, don"t go out in sunlight, can"t take care of self properly. Cognition: self deprecating thoughts, negative about life now and future. Age of onset: various but we focus on adult, usually 31. Ex. older man when wife dies more prone to depression than widow.
