BIOL 1010 Lecture Notes - Learned Helplessness, Major Depressive Episode, Cognitive Therapy
30 Jan 2013
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Cyclothymic disorder: the person has frequent periods of depressed mood and hypomania, which may be mixed with, may alternate with, or may be separated by periods of normal mood lasting as long as two months. During depression, they feel inadequate; during hypomania, their self-esteem is inflated. They withdraw from people, then seek them out in an uninhibited fashion. They sleep too much and then too little. The person with dysthymic disorder is chronically depressed more than half the time for at least two years. Insomnia or sleeping too much; feelings of inadequacy; ineffectiveness, and lack of energy; pessimism; an inability to concentrate and to think clearly; and a desire to avoid the company of others. Women are 2-3 times more likely than men. Many people with it have episodes of major depression, as well, a condition known as double depression.
