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PSYC 107 1nd Edition Lecture 31 Outline of Last Lecture I DSM V II Autism Epidemic III Intermittent Explosive Disorder IV Pathological Gambling V Anxiety Disorders VI Panic Attacks Phobia Outline of Current Lecture I For the Final II Grade Cutoffs III Dissociative Disorder IV Personality Disorder V Mood Disorder VI Major Depressive Disorder VII Bipolar Disorder VIII Other Mood Disorders IX Understanding Mood Disorders X Suicide Current Lecture I For the Final It is not cumulative Not all of Chapter 14 is covered II Grade cutoffs 468 A 368 416 467 B 316 367 364 415 C 264 315 312 363 D 212 263 311 and below F These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute III IV V VI Final Points Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 Test 5 Attendance Extra Credit Extra Credit Attendance Extra Credit simple questions that you would know from during class her chronic illness is osteoporosis Dossociative Disorder Conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories thoughts and feelings Symptoms Having a sense of being unreal Having been separated from the body Personality Disorders Condition in which personality traits appearing first in adolescence are inflexible stable expressed in a wide variety of situations and lead to distress or impairment Affects entire life of person Major categories Odd eccentric cluster paranoid schizotypal schizoid don t want to be around people Dramatic emotional erratic cluster histrionic narcissistic antisocial borderline Anxious fearful avoidant dependent obsessive compulsive Antisocial Personality disorder The person exhibits lack of conscience for wrongdoing even toward friends and family members Typically male 1 2 US population Estimated 60 prisoners Formerly individual referred to as a sociopath or psychopath In murderers their frontal lobe had 11 less frontal lobe activity Mood disorders Two forms Depression Bipolar Define by a disturbance in emotion Affect in psychology means emotion or mood Also referred to affective disorder Experiences emotions that are extreme and abnormal Can be mild but chronic to very extreme 13 of Americans at some time in our life The mood spectrum has extreme sadness to extreme elation on the other end Major depressive disorder VII VIII IX Depression is the common cold of psychological disorders Number 1 reason people seek mental health services Leading cause of suicide Age onset is typically 25 to 30 Requires either depressed mood most of the day or markedly reduced interest in activity Signs include Lethargy of fatigue Feelings of worthlessness Loss of interest of family and friends Loss of interest in activities Others insomnia weight loss inability to concentrate or think Bipolar disorder Formerly called manic depressive disorder An alternation between depression and mania signals bipolar disorder Depression symptoms Gloomy Withdrawn Inability to make decisions Tired Slowness of though Manic symptoms Elation Euphoria Desire for action Hyperactive Multiple ideas Other mood disorders Dysthymic disorder Hypomanic episode Cyclothymiacs Postpartum depression 10 to 20 of women Postpartum psychosis is very rare Season affective disorder SAD winter blues Understanding Mood Disorders Behavioral and cognitive changes Inactivity and unmotivated Prevalence of depression Causes must be common too Gender differences Women 2times more than men X Progression of disorder Most episodes terminated without treatment Relation to stressful events Frequency and age of onset Suicide It takes awhile for antidepressants to work If you are so depressed when you start taking medicine you can gain enough energy to follow through with your plans to kill yourself


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