PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Catecholamine, Mania, Psychomotor Retardation
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Major depression and bipolar disorder: the term mood disorder is not appropriate, mood disorders have normal emotions, but the duration and intensity is too. Mood refers to an emotion, anxiety is an emotion but not a mood disorder long/much. Unipolar disorder (depression: major depression than 6 weeks. Used to be defined (in dsm iv) as sad affect that lasts for a period of more. Patient describes themselves as sad there is not much physiological arousal thus we rely heavily on self- report measures self-report inventories beck depression inventory is the most common: short and easy to administer. Depressed patients aren"t interested in doing long scales they aren"t motivated for long periods of time is the patient sad, how sad, and for how long severe depression ask them if they have thought about harming themselves. First thing you want to do: if yes, do you have a plan to harm yourself if yes take them to the hospital er.
