PSY 0515 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Major Depressive Disorder, Psychomotor Agitation, Bipolar Disorder
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Children who are depressed cannot shake their sadness, affects relationships with parents. Associated with depressed mood, loss of interest, and other symptoms with significant impairment in functioning. Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in activities. Diminished ability to think or concentrate, indecisiveness. Depressed mood is generally less severe but with longer lasting symptoms (a year or more) and significant impairment in functioning. Depression is usually not seen as a sad mood, it is usually in an irritable mood. Significant weight gain or loss, failure to make expected weight gain. Paying attention, sitting still and sleeping through the night are developmental. What is their method: age 12: take it seriously, they understand the permanence of death, knows how to lethally take their own life, age 16: take it seriously, better understanding at how those words affect other people. Age of first onset is usually 13-15 years old. Most children recover from their initial episode, but the disorder doesn"t go away.
