PS101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cortisol, Major Depressive Disorder, Psychotic Depression
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Social phobia - fear of interacting with others, avoid social situations: agoraphobia - like social, more complicated, fear of being in a situation from which escape is difficult or impossible. Specific phobia - fear of a specific thing. Severe anxiety about a trauma that has happened to you (i. e. military, car accident), can be triggered by sounds or visuals. Lasts more than a month, may begin shortly after or years after the event. Some disorders are linked to deficient or excessive activity of different neurotransmitters: viral inflection. Studies suggest that a damaging virus may set result in schizophrenia: psychodynamic explanation, attributes abnormal functioning to unconscious conflicts that are rooted in childhood, i. e. fixations. Mood (affective) disorders: moods or emotions that are extreme and unwarranted, persuasive disturbed mood as the dominant feature, two broad categories: From extreme depression to extreme elation: depressive, bipolar.
