PSY240H1 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 Key Terms & Notes
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Bipolar disorder: disorder marked by cycles between manic episodes and depressive episodes; also called manic depression. Mania: state of persistently elevated mood, feelings of grandiosity, over enthusiasm, racing thoughts, rapid speech, and impulsive actions. Depression: state marked by either a sad mood or a loss of interest in one"s usual activities, as well as feelings of hopelessness, suicidal ideation, psychomotor agitation or retardation, and trouble concentrating. Unipolar depression: second type of mood disorder; people with unipolar depression experience only depression no mania. Sometimes people with depression lose sight of reality and begin to experience delusions and hallucinations. Delusions: are beliefs with no basis in reality. Hallucinations: involve seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not real. Dysthymic disorder: a less severe form of depressive disorder than is major depression, but it is more chronic. To be diagnosed a person must be experiencing depressed mood plus two other symptoms of depression for at least two weeks.
