HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Major Depressive Episode, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Psychomotor Agitation

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 2G03
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

Mood: pervasive and sustained, long lasing emoional experience. Within a mood period you can have many diferent emoions. Mood is projected outwards, facial expression, tone of voice, how people read your mood. Mood has a "halo efect"-- can colour current experience and how we look at the past and future. Mood has ability to change how you understand present situaion, and how they look at o future o. Puts a ilter through your thoughts, darken/lighten it. Discrete period in which behavior and feelings dominated by mania or depression. One or more major depressive episodes without mania. Five + symptoms during 2-week period o o o o o o o o o o. Anhedonia: inability to experience pleasure (aciviies, favorite food, etc. ) Psychomotor agitaion (move a lot) or retardaion (moving very litle) Your experience with depression is very diferent than another person, depression looks very diferent. Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia)-- chronic, but less severe than mdd.