PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 49: Frontal Lobe, Explanatory Style, Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
10 Dec 2015
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A depressed mood is a response to previous and current loss. Mood disorders: psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes (includes: major depressive disorder, mania and bipolar disorder) Bipolar disorder: a mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania (formerly called manic-depressive disorder) Mania: a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state. If depression is living in slow motion, mania is living in fast forward. Women"s risk of major depression is nearly double men"s: People trapped in a depressed mood are inactive and feel unmotivated. Commonality suggests that its causes must be common. Women are more vulnerable to disorders involving internalized states (including depression, anxiety and inhibited sexual desire) The plague of depression comes and usually within a few weeks or months it ends without professional help. Stressful events related to work, marriage and close relationships often precede depression:
