U09 Psych 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Electroconvulsive Therapy
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3rd cause of death among 15-24 year olds. Most people feel some ambivalence risk doesn"t always decrease with better mood. Won"t push someone to do it by asking about it. Suicide realities: depression 1. 5-3 times greater risk, bipolar 10 times greater risk. Ssris increase amount of serotonin in the synaptic gap. Mood stabilizers brings people"s moods to a baseline stage can be difficult to keep the person on this regimen, because they don"t like the dampening effects of the drug. Erickson"s stages of development (page 386) read in textbook: depressed thinking depressed action depressed mood , part of the symptomology, depressed people have negative, triangle of depression.
