Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Mania
22 Sep 2020
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Inflated self-esteem: decreased need for sleep (feels well rested even when hasn"t slept a lot, more talkative than usual, flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing, distractibility. Increase in goal-directed activity or psychomotor agitation: excessive involvement in activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e. g. engaging in unrestrained buying sprees) Is more common than bipolar 1: have to have had at least one episode of major depression and at least one hypomanic event for diagnosis. Psych chapter 6 textbook notes bipolar and depressive disorders: at the other end of the age spectrum, for people over the age of 60, manic and depressive symptoms often develop in association with medical illness, especially stroke. In many instances, persistent depressive disorder is undiagnosed until the person has a major depressive episode: when the person seeks help for the more severe depressive symptoms, the longer history of dysthymia is identified, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.
