PSYD33H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dsm-5, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Positive Affectivity
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Axis 1: mental disorders; axis 2: personality disorders; axis 3: explanation (med. or other) for disorder; axis 4 &5: level of impairment or disorder. Dsm iv: mood and anx. are highly correlated. Gen. diagnostic/class (anx. and mood), then specific disorders underneath (bipolar, unipolar), under each disorder are specifiers. Unipolar depression - when major dep. ep. experienced and never in their life had manic/hypmanic episode. Both treated very differently; s/t in bipolar manic episode can occur years apart f/ dep. episode (thus hard to dertmine when someone is dep. to determine whether they are unipol/bipol) Unipolar treated with ssri works; but bipolar in dep. stage with ssri could facil. manic episode. : never able to be class. as manic, hypomanic or dep. Mdd: 7/9 sympt"s: anhed. , fatigue, psychomotor retardation, d/i appetite, thoughts of death (not nec. overt suicide ideation/attempts) e. g. wake up thinking i"d be better off dead.
