Psychology 2042A/B Lecture Notes - Dysphoria, Mania, Mythbusters

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2042A/B
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

Depression as a disorder: major depressive disorder (mdd): minimum duration of two weeks; associated with depressed mood, loss of interest, other symptoms, and significant impairment in functioning symptoms (a year or more), and significant impairment in functioning now persistent depressive disorder depressed mood, generally less severe but longer lasting, dysthymic disorder: Cognitive biases and disturbances: biases, deficits and distortions in their thinking, selective attentional biases, feelings of worthlessness, negative beliefs, attributions of failure, self critical and automatic thoughts, depressive ruminative style; pessimistic outlook, negative thinking and faulty conclusions generalize across situations, hopelessness and suicidal ideation. Most common methods for those who complete suicide are firearms, hanging, suffocation, poisoning and overdose: strongest risk factors for suicidal behaviour worldwide are having a mood disorder and being a young female, ages 13 and 14 are peak periods for first suicide attempts, uses the term suicidal behaviour in girls because they show suicidal behaviour more and boys tend to commit suicide more often.