PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Social Rejection, Circadian Rhythm, Xerostomia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

Document Summary

Mania is characterized by intense and unrealistic feelings of excitement and euphoria. Depression involves feelings of extraordinary sadness and dejection. In unipolar disorders, one will only experience depressive episodes. We differentiate between mood disorders in terms of severity and duration. A major depressive episode involves the person being markedly depressed for most of every day and for most days for at least two weeks. A manic episode shows marked elevation, euphoria or expansiveness in mood, interrupted by occasional outbursts of intense irritability or even violence, persisting for atleast a week. Lifetime prevalence of unipolar major depression is 12 percent and about. 17 percent in the usa, higher for women then men. The grieving process tends to be more difficult for men than women. Normal responses to loss of a loved one: numbing and disbelief that lasts for hours-week, yearning and searching for weeks or months, disorganization and despair and reorganization.