PSYC 4321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Explanatory Style, Bipolar Disorder, Dysthymia
4 Oct 2018
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Understanding and defining mood disorders: differ from normal experience in intensity and duration. Irritability develops at the end of the episode. If untreated, can last 3-4 months: hypomanic episode: less severe version of a manic episode, does not cause marked impairment in functioning, duration of at least 4 days. The two factors that most importantly describe mood disorders are severity and chronicity. Clinical descriptions: major depressive disorder: depression with the absence of manic or hypomanic episodes before or during the disorder. If 2+ major depressive episodes occurred and were separated by 2+ months during which the individual was not depressed, the mdd is recurrent. Indicates a more severe condition: suicidal thoughts and completed suicide are more likely, poorer outcome from treatment, with mixed features, predominantly depressive episodes that have 3+ symptoms of mania, with melancholic features. 4: tend toward excessive sleep and increased appetite and weight gain.
