PSYCH 9C Chapter Notes - Chapter 14.1: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Twin, Family Therapy
Document Summary
Quickly changing from episodes of extreme listlessness and depression to excited states of extraordinary joyfulness (mania: people in manic episodes have impaired judgment, they often engage in dangerous behavior or make disastrous decisions. Was called manic-depressive disorder because of the shifts from mania and depression. Britney spears, demi lovato, russell brand, and catherine zeta-jones. An unquiet mind written by kay jamison who acknowledge her bipolar disorder. Childhood was intensely emotional and occasionally obsessive. At 17, first thoughts of suicidal depression. Deepening swings from wild exuberance to paralyzing depression throughout her undergraduate years. Condition got worse: hallucinating, felt like losing her mind. Psychiatrist diagnosed her with bipolar and gave lithium drug. Maybe medication or treating this disorder would take away creativity from people: michelangelo had mood disorders so would treatment caused less creativity. Psychopathology: sickness or disorder of the mind. Writings of aristotle to freud show people had various forms of psychopathology.
