MOOD DISORDERS
Definition: Characterized by emotional extremes
- Psychological Disorder
Depression: The common cold of psychological disorders.
Major Depressive Disorder: A person, for no apparent reason experiences two or more weeks of depressive moods.
- Includes feelings of worthlessness and diminishes interest of pleasure in most activities.
Dysthymic Disorder: Suffering from mild depression everyday for at least two years.
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Experience during the winter months.
- Based not on temperature, but on amount of sunlight.
- Treated with light therapy
BIPOLAR DISORDERS
Definitions: A person alternated between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the over excited state of mania. (TWO EXTREMES)
SCHIZOPHRENIA
- How Prevalent? - About 1 in every 100 people are diagnosed.
- Symptoms
- Disorganized thinking, Disturbed Perceptions, Inappropriate emotions and actions
- Example: Laughing at a funeral
- DISORGANIZED THINKING
- The thinking of a person with Schizophrenia is fragmented and bizarre and distorted with false beliefs.
- Comes from a breakdown in selective attention
- Can not filter information out
CAUSES
- DELUSIONS (False beliefs)
- Delusions of persecution (Out to get me)
- Delusions of Grandeur (I am Jesus)
- DISTURBED PERCEPTION (Hallucinations)
- Sensory experiences without sensory stimulation.
- INAPPROPRIATE EMOTIONS AND ACTIONS
- Laugh at inappropriate things
- Flat Affect
- Senseless
- Compulsive Acts
- Catatonia- Motionless, Wavy, Flexibility
- Positive Vs Negative Symptoms
- Presence of inappropriate symptoms
- Negative
- Absence of appropriate symptoms
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