PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Hypomania, Libido, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
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Disturbances in emoions, thoughts, and behaviors that cause subjecive discomfort and hinder a person"s ability to funcion. Difer from temporary emoional reacions: pervade every aspect of person"s life, persist over extended period of ime, occur for no apparent reason, out of proporion to life circumstances. Involve symptoms of depression and/or mania: depression: Intense sadness, feelings or fuility and worthlessness and withdrawal from others; core feature of many mood disorders: mania: Elevated mood, expansiveness, or irritability resuling in impairment in social or occupaional funcioning; psychoic symptoms may be present. Afecive: depressed mood, with feelings of sadness, dejecion, hopelessness, worthlessness, and low self-esteem, limited enthusiasm for things that previously brought joy and pleasure, irritability and feelings of anxiety. Cogniive: general feeling of fuility, empiness, and hopelessness accompanied by pessimism about the present and future prospects, self-denigraion (belitling oneself) feelings of incompetence, and thoughts of suicide, ruminaion: Coninually thinking about certain topics or reviewing events that have.
