PSY 325 Study Guide - Final Guide: Emil Kraepelin, Suicidal Ideation, Dissociative Identity Disorder
26 Oct 2017
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Chapter 7 mood disorders and suicide: mood-disorders: the heading of few kinds of disorders with big deviations in mood. Lack of ability to experience pleasure from life, thoughts of death. it is also lack of hypomanic or manic symptoms. If two or more depressive symptoms occurred with at least two month of no-depression between them, then the disorder is recurrent. A big part of understanding mood disorders is understanding their cycle. Individuals with recurrent depression usually have family history of depression, unlike people with a single episode: persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia) is for at least two years, sometimes 20-30 years. Similar to major depression, but could be less symptoms, just for a longer time. Low self-esteem, low energy, significant impairment in functioning, no manic episodes: some people have double depression both major depression episodes and persistent depression with fewer symptoms, additional criteria for depressive disorders: mild, moderate and severe.
