PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fixed Action Pattern, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Systematic Desensitization

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Megan Mc Carthy

Document Summary

Mental illness: persistently harmful thoughts that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional. Historic development: trephination: cutting a hole in the skull to release demons that cause mental illness, medical model: mental illness caused by physical issues, dsm5: diagnosis based on an interview by a registered physician with agreed upon symptoms. Insight: to understand why the symptoms exist (psychoanalysis) Cbt: cognitive restructuring and stress induction (mindfulness, systematic desensitization) 2: biomedical: treatments to alter the nervous system (drugs, surgeries, technological) What specific stressor, emotional/physical/cognitive symptoms (nervous, shaking, negative bias) Overwhelming fear, not due to phobia but trigger, panic attack misinterpreted for something bad (dizzy, tremble, breathe) Repetitive unwanted thoughts & dysfunctional actions to reduce anxiety. 5% of pop. , more in women/black people, appears early in life. 2% of pop. , more in women/white people, lifetime prevalence. 2% of pop. , more in whites, usually youth. Not related to genetics, triggered by stress convergence, fear of losing control, worrying ensures control .