GWSS 257 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Bipolar I Disorder, Sex Steroid, Bipolar Disorder
3 Sep 2018
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Melancholia: a separate depressive subtype or a more severe expression of clinical depression, is quite variably define on the basis of its clinical features. Gender differences are 1) to some extent artifactual or 2) essentially real. Gender differences in atypical depression most evident. Individuals are held to have a highly reactive mood, more likely to experience hyperphagia, hypersomnia, personality style marked by sensitivity to rejection. No consistent trend for women or men to report greater responsiveness to different psychotherapy or counselling in the literature. Certain gender based role experiences shape the development of self an as a consequence, and diathesis of anxiety and depression. Girls play with dolls, boys war figures. Girls greater propensity to internalize, boys tougher. Argues that women are either differentially exposed to a greater number of life event stressors are/or are more vulnerable to them. Diathesis (tendency to suffer from a particular medical condition) stress model.
