Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Dysthymia, Catatonia, Anhedonia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Rod Martin

Document Summary

Normal depression: psychological pain (cid:224) tells us there is something wrong with our life, there is a healing process that needs to take place, for example: the grief process, similar to physical pain, if we didn"t have pain we would be dead, dsm iv categories, major depression, dysthymic disorder (dysthymia)(cid:224) clinically depressed for at least two years, adjustment disorder with depressed mood(cid:224) clinical depression often based on some stressful life event (lasts shorter amount of time, approx. Physical symptoms: significant weight loss (common in severe cases) or gain, insomnia (severe cases) or hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation or retardation (becoming completely immobile or catatonic, cognitive symptoms, fatigue, loss of energy (feeling extremely tired, unmotivated, feelings of worthlessness or guilt (often imagined, diminished ability to think or concentrate (very distractible, everything is a big task(cid:224) getting dressed, recurrent thoughts of death, suicidal ideation.