PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Major Depressive Disorder, Psychomotor Agitation, Bipolar Disorder
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Major depression: 2+ weeks of significant depressive symptoms. Mania: episode of abnormally hyperactive, expansive, irritable, or overoptimistic state. Dsm 5 criteria: 5 or more of the following for 2 weeks. Unrelated to: ethnicity, education, income, marital status. Extreme goal directed activity / psychomotor agitation. Excessive engagement is risky but pleasure-seeking activities. Both manic and depressive (or mixed) episodes. What causes mood disorders: psychodynamic theories, cognitive theories, biological theories, psychodynamic theories. Depression is unconscious self-punishment stemming from feeling abandoned. Interpersonal theory (ipt, coyne: excessive efforts to seek reassurance, others reject the person suffering from mood disorder, cognitive theories. Beck"s theory: depression stems from negative mental self of world and future. Al: biased attention to negative events, biased interpretation of ambiguous events, biased memory for negative events. Learned-helplessness theory: learn a lack of control, tendency to attribute negative events to internal, stable, and global factors. Uncontrollable bad event lack of control generalized helpless behavior: biological theories.
