PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - New Approach, Psychosomatic Medicine, Antigen
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Chapter 13 emotions and mental health in adulthood. Depression and anxiety are referred to as emotional disorders when they reach states to point where person cannot do ordinary things anymore. Both are most common non-psychotic psychiatric disorders. Depression intense sadness/despair that persecutes/drains all meaning of from life. Principle emotional component pleasurable foal achievement. 2 weeks of unbearable sadness/loss in pleasure, and 4 other symptoms from: unable to sleep, slowed actions, lack e, lack concentration, worthlessness, or suicide ideation. Anxiety overwhelming fear + avoidance of what is feared. Advances most important in improving health were the epidemiological discoveries of how people caught infectious diseases i. e. to introduce preventative measures (e. g. caught infectious diseases i. e. to introduce preventative measures (e. g. clean water). Discovery of preventative measures are also more valuable in psychiatry than medications. Slow to develop due to difficultly in diagnostic criteria. Depression most important chronic condition in middle years of life (economic impact, impairment)
