PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Laxative, Solitude, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Mood is to climate and affect is to weather. Person experiences two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either. Person experiences mildly depressed more often than not for at least two years, along with at least two or more symptoms. Person experiences not only depression but also mania--impulsive behavior. Lasts at least 7 days or needs hospitalization. Manic depressive euthymia (neutral) manic depression. Finding that any theory of depression must explain. Women"s risk of major depression is nearly double men"s. Suggesting that there is something more vulnerable in women. Look irritable, agitated, and angry when they are depressed. Most major depressive episodes end on their own. Stressful events related to work, marriage, and close relationship often precede depression. College student predictor: breakup, then academic challenge. With each new generation, depression is striking earlier in life and affecting more people. Suicide rates increased by 200% in us.
