PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Pharmacology, Belief, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

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Mood disorders: extremes in mood that disrupt normal life experiences, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder. Depression: frequency, intensity, and duration of symptoms is out of proportion to the situation, major depressive disorder, four components of depression, emotional symptoms primary group of symptoms, sadness predominant symptom, hopelessness, anxiety, misery. Inability to enjoy: cognitive symptoms, negative cognitions about self, world, and future, motivational symptoms, loss of interest, lack of drive, difficulty starting anything, somatic symptoms, loss of appetite or uncontrollable eating, lack of energy, sleep difficulties, weight loss/gain. Depressive episodes can last for months or years. Cognitive therapies: role of irrational and self-defeating thought patterns, help clients discover and change cognitions that underlie problems, they way you interpret a situation affects your emotions and behaviours. Cognitive therapy for depression: aaron beck one of the first people to use this therapy, sort out ideas (cognitions) that underlie maladaptive emotional response (depression, formulates ways of testing the cognitions (in a gentle way, e. g.