PSYCH 270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Epileptic Seizure

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 270
• Professor: Transfer Course

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**note there are multiple parts to some of the objectives: define depression, mania, unipolar depression, and bipolar disorder. (184) Depression is a low and sad life state in which life seems to be dark and its trials are overwhelming for the sufferer. Mania is the opposite of depression and is recognizable as a state of breathless euphoria or at least some frenzied energy. In this state, people might have an exaggerated belief that the world is theirs for the taking. Unipolar depression usually affects those who have no history of mania and return to a normal or nearly normal mood when their depression ends. Unipolar depression severely affects about 9% in any given year, and around 5% suffer from a milder version. Around 18% of all adults experience an episode of severe unipolar depression sometime in their life. These rates are very similar in other countries such as canada and.