PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Borderline Personality Disorder, Dissociative Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder
Document Summary
Interferes with daily life: personally distressful. Experiences, thoughts, emotions, and personality: sociocultural approach. Classification systems: common basis for communicating, can help make predictions, benefit person suffering from symptoms, create stigma. Dsm-v: classification of psychological disorders in u. s. Involve fears that are: uncontrollable, disproportionate to actual danger, disruptive. Feature: motor tension, hyperactivity, apprehensive expectations and thoughts. Generalized anxiety disorder: unable to specify reasons for the anxiety. Gaba deficiency: psychological and sociocultural factors. Panic disorder: recurrent, sudden onsets of intense apprehension or terror. 2: occur without warning and no specific cause. Phobic disorder: irrational, overwhelming, persistent fear of particular object or situation. Post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd: develops through exposure to traumatic event that overwhelms abilities to cope. Unrelenting lack of pleasure in life: major depressive disorder. Significant depressive episode and depressed characteristic for 2 weeks. More chronic, fewer symptoms than mdd: etiology. Bipolar disorder: extreme mood swings, including one or more episodes of mania. Characterized by extreme disturbances in eating behavior.
