PSYC18H3 Chapter 13: Chapter 13(1).docx
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Chapter 13 emotions and mental health in adulthood. Emotional disorder: when states reach levels at which person can no longer do ordinary things such as go to work or look after kids. Overwhelming fears together with more protracted moods of disabling anxiety, avoidance of what is especially feared, and loss of personal confidence: when someone has nervous breakdown, suffers major depressive episode with or without accompanying anxiety disorder. In an emotional disorder, aspects of one"s emotions tend to become difficult to understand than normal. Psychiatric epidemiology: statistical study of how frequently disorders occur. Epidemiologist :detective who finds out why some people suffer disorders, while others don"t. Robins and regier found that depression and anxiety states were twice as common in women as in men. Depression recognized by who as single most important chronic condition in middle years of life in terms of economic impact and impairment of relationships.
