PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Breast Pain, Social Rejection, Psychomotor Retardation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Mark Coates

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Mood disorders: nearly everyone feels happy and sad at various times, experiencing very high or very low moods is normal, mood disorders differ from normal mood states in duration and severity. Lasts for several weeks or more: cause extreme distress or impairment in functioning, unipolar and bipolar mood disorders. Major depressive disorder: presence of a single major depressive episode and no history of a manic episode, mde - five or more of the following, within a two week period. At least one must be one of the symptoms: Bipolar disorders: manic/hypomanic episode, period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood lasting at least 4 (hypomanic) or 7 (manic) days, at least three or more, unless mood is irritable (4) Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity: decreased need for sleep, more talkative, flight of ideas or racing thoughts, distractibility, excessive pleasurable activites that have high potential for painful consequences.