PSYCH 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dsm-5, Psychoactive Drug, Chemical Substance
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Chronic stress and specific events can contribute to depression. Giving birth to baby leads to her depression. Intrusive thoughts of her harming her newborn infant. Jawee: major early life trauma in childhood. His father would have eruptions of anger in public. Mother abandonment at early stage in his life. Exposure to high levels of violence in arizona and new jersey. Cultural differences to extent to which depression is stigmatized disease black culture has big stigma w/ depression. Problem must be persistent before diagnosis of substance abuse disorder. Someone involved in a single drug incident that causes them a lot of difficulty. Drug of abuse: a chemical substance that alters a person"s mood, level of. Polysubstance abuse: abuse of/dependence on several types of drugs. Substance dependence would not qualify for substance use disorder perception, or brain functioning. Person craves or has very forceful urge to use the substance.
