PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Major Depressive Episode, Psychiatric Epidemiology, World Health Organization
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Identify diminution of pleasurable goal achievement as a principal emotional component of depression. When someone has a nervous breakdown, usually he or she suffers a major depressive episode with or without an accompanying anxiety disorder. Similarly in psychiatry, the discovery of drugs for disorders has been important but more important will be prevention. Psychiatric epidemiology was slow to take its place alongside the epidemiology of physical medicine, mainly because it was a first difficult to agree on criteria for diagnosis of disorders, and because reliable psychological assessments had not been developed. Among the striking findings of this and of similar studies such as that of robins and regier was that depression and anxiety states were nearly twice as common in women as in men. 21% of adult women have had an episode of major depression at some time in their life, as compared to 13% of men.
