PSB-2000 Study Guide - Psychomotor Agitation, Bipolar Disorder, Postpartum Depression
Document Summary
What are mood disorders: affective disorders. Illnesses that affect the emotional coloring with which we see the world: prevalence. Sadness and helplessness for days and weeks at a time. Little pleasure from sex or food (or anything) Emotional: absence of happiness more reliable symptom than increased sadness. Study 1: people carries beepers; randomly signaled to report emotional reactions. Depressed people far below average number of pleasant experiences: somatic. Lack of concentration, increased indecisiveness (cid:222: both emotional, plus at least 3 others, for most of every day for 2 weeks, and this is obvious change from person"s usual state, more on suicide. Thoughts of suicide are considered a medical emergency. Other types of depression: atypical depression. Responds to positive and negative experiences, but especially sensitive to negative experiences. Respond best to ssri"s with psychotherapy: dysthymia. Genetics and depression: adopted children resemble biological parents more than adoptive parents.
