PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Etiology, Cortisol, Learned Helplessness
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Major depressive disorder: diagnosis requires that a major depressive episode impair funcioning for most of the day, nearly every day for at least two full weeks, major depressive episode. Two-week period involving pervasive feelings of sadness or empiness and or loss of pleasure and other cogniive behavioral and physiological changes. Chronic depressive disorder: symptoms are present most of the day for more days that not during a two year period, ongoing presence of at least two symptoms: Mixed anxiety-depressive disorder: distressing symptoms of major depression and accompanied by anxious distress, anxious distress. Symptoms of motor tension, diiculty relaxing, pervasive worries or feelings that something catastrophic will occur: neither anxiety nor depression is predominant. Seasonal afecive disorder: major depression that occurs with a seasonal patern associated with decreased light, symptoms typically begin in the fall/winter and remit during spring/summer, two seasonal major depressive episodes are required for diagnosis, symptoms include: Declining energy, lethargy, increased need for sleep, weight gain, and social.
