PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Etiology, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Reduced Affect Display
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Mood or affective disorders (mood or emotion disorders) Moods or emotions that are extreme or unwarranted. Is not a case of the blues" or having a bad day". Clinical depression occurs when the frequency, intensity, duration of symptoms is out of proportion to situation. Has to be long-lasting, high intensity depression. Symptoms are way out of proportion to what they should be. Extreme situations, not related to a life event that would justify it. Loss of interest hard to engage them. Don"t have motivation and initiative to get up and do something. Do not have the energy to get up out of their chair and do something. Don"t see any potential for changes in the future it"s just going to on like this forever, it"s not worth it. True misery all your thoughts are very negative. Loss of appetite, sometimes weight gain, sometimes weight loss.
