PSY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 42: Explanatory Style, Individualism, Learned Helplessness
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Major depressive disorder is a prolonged state of hopeless depression. Depression is often a response to past and current loss. Deeply discouraged about your life or your future. Unable to concentrate, eat, or sleep normally. Lack the energy to get things done or even to force yourself out of bed. would be better off dead. Purposeful in survival and reproduction in that depression sends us into a sort of psychic hibernation. It slows us down, defuses aggression, helps us let go of unattainable goals, and restrains risk taking. Bipolar disorder (formerly called manic-depressive disorder overexcited hyperactivity. Seasonal pattern: depression may regularly return each fall or winter, and a reprieve from depression or possibly, mania may dependably arrive with spring. Anxiety is a response to the threat of future loss. Number one reason people seek mental health services in the u. s.
