PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Magical Thinking
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Don"t have to be depressed to commit suicide: usually centered around depression. People who commit suicide often make a plan. Males tend to be more successful in making an attempt at suicide: their attempts seem to be more sever ex: guns, women tend to take pills or cut themselves. Picking, cutting, pulling hair out associated with ocd and anxiety. Schizophrenia: a disorder characterized by the profound disruption of basic psychological processes, a distorted perception of reality, altered or blunted emotion, and disturbances in thought, motivation, and behavior: occurs in about 1% of the population. Sometimes odd facial expressions for the situation they are in. Wear winter clothes when its warm out: negative symptoms: emotional and social withdrawal, apathy; poverty of speech. The removal of normal interactions: lose a lot of communication skills. Monozygotic twins (identical) 1 might get schizophrenia, one might not: para-natal and prenatal environment.
