Psychology 2320A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fluoxetine, Tricyclic Antidepressant, Reinforcement

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2320A/B
• Professor: idk

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Come in several brands: at one end of the spectrum are children who experience severe depression suffer from dysphoria, a state of prolonged bouts of sadness. Feel little joy in anything they do and lose interest in nearly all activities, a state known as anhedonia. Some express depression through irritable mood irritability refers to easy annoyance and touchiness, characterized by an angry mood and temper outbursts. Suffer from an ongoing combination of extreme highs and extreme los, a condition known as. Dsm-iv-tr divides mood disorders into two general categories depressive disorders and bipolar disorders bipolar disorder (bp) or manic-depressive illness. History: people once doubted the existence of depression in children, symptoms of depression were considered normal and passing expressions of certain stages of development. Children lack sufficient superego development to permit aggression to be directed against the self so they thought kids couldn"t have depression: masked depression is view that depression in children is different from adults.