PSY 101 1st Edition Lecture 21 Outline of Last Lecture I. Mood disordersOutline of Current Lecture II. Psychological disordersCurrent Lecture-mood disorders-mood-major depression-bipolar disorder-two extremes of the mood “throttle”-low: depression-high: mania-moods fluctuate over time-major depression-extremely common: lifetime prevalence 5% men, 10% women-extremely dangerous: half of all suicides, 15% of hospitalized patients kill themselves-episodes are almost always temporary, typically 6-9 months in serious cases, it will end-major depression symptoms-emotional: despair, anxiety, guilt-cognitive: Beck’s negative triad (I’m a terrible person, the world is terrible, my future is hopeless), thoughts of suicide, think back to social-cognitive theories of personality-somatic: fatigue, lethargy, anhedonia (no pleasure), disturbances of sleep and appetite-bipolar disorder: cycle back and forth between mania and depression-lifetime prevalence: less that 1%-much more heritable and biologically based than unipolar-well treated with lithium carbonate-mild cases associated with creativity and success (Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe, MarkTwain, Ernest Hemingway)-major theme #5: everything psychological is simultaneously biological-major theme #6: there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so; we are what we think, all that we are arises with our thoughts, with our thoughts we make the world-anxiety disorders: distressing, persistent anxiety or dysfunctional anxiety reducing behaviors (be able to define each in one sentence)-generalized anxiety disorder-panic disorder-phobias-post-traumatic stress disorder-obsessive-compulsive disorder-OCD-obsessions: repetitive thought-concern with dirt, germs, toxins-something terrible happening-symmetry, order, exactness-compulsions: repetitive behaviors-excessive hand washing, bathing, etc-repeating rituals-checking doors, locks, appliances, etc-personality disorders: characterized b inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning; usually without anxiety, depression, or delusions-examples: narcissistic personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder-antisocial personality disorder: the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members; related to psychopaths-may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist-boys who were later convicted of a crime showed lower levels of
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