PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Major Depressive Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Taijin Kyofusho
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26% of people have experienced mental illness in the last year. 46% of us will experience mental illness in our lifetimes. When med students study diseases, they start seeing the diseases in themselves: criteria for a psychological disorder. Interferes with ability to carry out everyday activities. Mentally ill people are possessed or being punished by god. # medical doctor assigned to paris insane asylum. Patients were chained to walls in the basement. # ordered that they be bathed, clothed, and talked to. > anorexia is popular only in countries which glorify skinny bodies. Koro is found almost exclusively in asia: classifying disorders. Classifies and organizes diseases, lists symptoms and treatments. Majority of therapists will reach the same conclusion given the same set of symptoms. We see everything people do as an indication of their illness because we are looking for it. Medical students were sent to hospitals and said they heard voices.