PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Prefrontal Cortex, Coronary Artery Disease, Memory T Cell
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Depression, sometimes called affective disorder, is intense sadness: a despair that can be painfully persecuting and drains all meaning from life. Most frequently diagnosed in relation to criteria in the american psychiatric association"s (2000) dsm-iv-tr. Anxiety disorders: come in several forms, all of which involve overwhelming fears together with more protracted moods of disabling anxiety. Western countries is far higher in eastern countries such as taiwan and korea: who (1983) studied depression in switzerland, canada, japan and iran covering a core cluster of symptoms: sadness, joylessness, anxiety and lack of energy. Other symptoms varied in frequency: 57% of patients in iran reported bodily symptoms compared to 27% in canada. Other symptoms such as poor appetite and feelings of worthless or guilt were not common to all countries: evidence is all correlational. Self-esteem is inflated and sometimes become grandiose. (hypomania is milder form).
