PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Racing Thoughts, Major Depressive Episode, Insomnia
12 Oct 2012
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Oct 10, psy240h1f (world mental health day: depression) About 1 in 10 chance of developing depression over one"s lifetime. A permanent alteration in mood state to sadness. The general consensus is that you can see both depression and bipolar disorder in children, but. It is not a funk", and clinical depression is not a mood that can quickly go away, it sticks around there is debate on that. Unipolar disorder (uni= one, pole= extreme) [depression] Marked by emotional disturbances (however there are other psychoses and conditions that are derived from emotional disturbances, such as schizophrenia, but here you don"t see emotional affect) These disturbances spill over to disrupt physical, emotional, sensory, cognitive etc. functioning and can even effect things as basic as colour perception. Like anxiety, sadness has an evolutionary and adaptive basis. Sadness teaches us consequences to help us survive and allow us to process information regarding punishment and reward.
