PSY240H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Hallucination, Dysthymia, Psychomotor Retardation
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Mania great energy and enthusiasm for everything, fizzing over with ideas talking and thinking so fast that her friends could not keep up with. Depression joy is drained from life. Unipolar disorder depression with no mania. People who develop mood disorders experience highs and lows that most of us can only imagine. > sadness; not typical sadness that we all feel sometimes but deep unrelenting pain. > usually lost interest in doing everything (called anhedonia: physiological and behavioural symptoms. > some people lose appetite, some people tend to eat more like binge eating. > some sleep all day; some has insomnia called early morning wakening where they awaken at. 3 or 4 am and cannot go back to sleep. > slowed down called psychomotor retardation (walk more slowly, gesture more slowly and talk more slowly and quietly. > more accidents because they cannot react to crises as quickly as necessary to avoid them.
