Psychology 2320A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Dsm-5, Fluoxetine, Mixed Affective State
9 Dec 2012
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Come in several brands: at one end of the spectrum are children who experience severe depression suffer from dysphoria, a state of prolonged bouts of sadness. Feel little joy in anything they do and lose interest in nearly all activities, a state known as anhedonia. Some express depression through irritable mood irritability refers to easy annoyance and touchiness, characterized by an angry mood and temper outbursts. Suffer from an ongoing combination of extreme highs and extreme los, a condition known as bipolar disorder (bp) or manic-depressive illness. Dsm-iv-tr divides mood disorders into two general categories depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. History: people once doubted the existence of depression in children, symptoms of depression were considered normal and passing expressions of certain stages of development. Almost all young people experience some symptoms of depression as many as 5% of children and 10-20% of adolescents experience significant depression at times. The way in which children express and experience depression changes with age.
