PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Major Depressive Episode, Conduct Disorder, Anhedonia
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Chapter 13: emotions and mental health in adulthood. Depression or affective disorder: a despair that can be painfully persecuting and. Some people have periods of extreme emotions: hopeless depression or immobilizing anxiety drains all meaning from life. Major depressive episode: diagnosed after two weeks; sufferer experiences anhedonia, alongside at least four other symptoms (unable to sleep, slowed actions, lack of energy to do ordinary tasks, inability to concentrate, feelings of worthlessness/guilt, thoughts/plans of suicide) Overwhelming fears, moods of disabling anxiety, avoidance of fearful stimuli, loss of personal confidence. Pe was slow to be established: it was difficult to agree on criteria for a diagnosis of disorders and because reliable psych assessments had not been developed. Robins and reiger (1991): depression/anxiety occurs twice as likely in women. Women have a higher prevalence for depression and anxiety. Men have a higher prevalence of a substance abuse disorder, conduct.
