PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 51.3: White Matter, Anorexia Nervosa, Robert Schumann

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Diagnosing major depressive disorder stress-related anxiety is a crackling, menacing brushfire, noted biologist robert sapolsky depression is a suffocating heavy blanket thrown on top of it. Adults diagnosed with persistent depressive disorder (also called dysthymia) experience a mildly depressed mood more often than not for two years or more. They also display at least two of the following symptoms: Major depression usually ends (with or without therapy) Mania: a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgment is common. Bipolar disorder: a disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. (formerly called manic-depressive disorder. ) Between 1994 and 2003, diagnoses of bipolar disorder swelled. For some people suffering depressive disorders or bipolar disorder, symptoms may have a seasonal pattern. Depression may regularly return each fall or winter, and mania (or a reprieve from depression) may dependably arrive with spring: when asked have you cried today? .