Day 3: Depressive, Bipolar, and Anxiety Disorders

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Depressive disorders

Symptoms:

  • Characterized by the presence of sad, empty, irritable, mood along with changes, physically or mentally, in a persons ability to function.

  • Possible causes:

  • Perspectives

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Major depressive disorders

Symptoms:

  • A severely depressed mood or inability to experience pleasure

    • Feeling worthless

    • Lethargy

    • disturbances in sleep

    • appetite changes

    • anxious

    • withdrawing from usual behavior/ activities

    • cognitive fog

Most common mood disorder

Treatment: medication ( anitdepressants), therapy (psychotherapy), brain stimulation.

Perspectives:

  • Ecclectic

  • Behavioral: depression is learned helpessness

  • Evolutionary: Maladaptive

  • Humanistic: you don’t have a support system

  • Psychodynamic: Your unconcious thoughts

  • Sociocultural: you have bad social relations

  • Biological

  • Biopsychosocial:

  • Cognitive: It is just bad thoughts and attitudes

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Persistent Depressive disorder (or Dysthymia)

Not as major as major depressive disorder, but its lasts a lot longer. Same symptoms

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Bipolar Disorder

Symptoms

  • Extreme mood disturbances of mood, thoughts, and behavior.

  • Periods of mania and periods of depression (alternating for no set amount of time).

Causes: Genetics, enviromental factors, physiological factors.

Perspectives:

  • Ecclectic

  • Behavioral: Learned behavior from people they surround themselves with or self-helplessness

  • Evolutionary: Maladaptive

  • Humanistic: Your heirarchy of needs isn’t met which leads to emotional instability

  • Psychodynamic: Your unconcious thoughts

  • Sociocultural: you have bad social relations

  • Biological

  • Biopsychosocial:

  • Cognitive: It is just bad thoughts and attitudesLea

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Mania

a mood disorder characterized by a wildly optimistic state.

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Depression

Feeling sad and losing interest in previously enjoyed activites→ Can alter moods, behavior, thoughts, and relationships

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Biopolar cycling

Pattern of frequent, distinct episodes in bipolar disorder.

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Bipolar I disorder

Symptoms: Involves severe mania and often depression

Causes: Genetics, brain abnormalities, and enviromental factors

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Bipolar II disorder

Symptoms: less severe form of mania/ hypomania

Possible causes: Genetics, brain abnormalities, and enviromental factors

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Anxiety Disorders

Symptoms:

  • Significant worrying or fear that does not go away and may worsen. (very consistent → can be intrusive and negative).

Causes: Brain chemistry, Life experiences, family history, genetic factors, medical conditions, and personalities that are neurotic and introverted.

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Specific phobia

Symptoms:

  • Intense fear of specifc object or situation that is often overwhelming or irrational, and out of porportion to the actual threat.

  • Acrophobia:

  • Arachnophobia

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Agoraphobia

Symptoms: An irrational and extreme feat of being in a situation where escape is impossible (life-limiting).

  • Panic

  • Avoiding public situations where they could feel helpless, panikced, or trapped.

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Panic Disorder

Symptoms:

  • Intense and persistent panic attaacks that occur unexpectedly.

  • rapid heartbeat, increased respiration, and fear

Types:

  • Panic attack: phsycial and emotional response to fear and anxiety.

  • Culture bound anxiety disorder

Causes: Age, Gender, Genetics, Trauma, Life transitions

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Ataque de Nervios (puerto rico syndrome)

exlusive to latino culutres and is higher in women.

  • it means attack of the nerves → may seem like a panic attack but it is not

  • IDebilitating dear

  • Uncontrolable screaming or crying

  • siezure

  • Heat rising from chest to head

  • Verbal attacks and phsycial aggression

  • Chest tightness and or heart palpitations.

Anxiety and fear are considered normal and healthy responses to the occurrence of the syndrome.

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Social anxiety disorder

  • Tajin Kyofusho: also known as the disorder of fear → a form of social (phobia) anxiety disorder

  • People who have this will be inensly fearful that about their appearance/ actions/behavior/ or themselves may be offensive or displeasing to others

  • They don’t want to stand out

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Symptoms:

  • Worrying about life, daulty evensts, relationships, and hypotheticals.

  • Excessive worry and aniety related to activites and events (hard to control).

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Maladaptive Thinking

Patterns of thinking that re distoorted innacturate, rigid and irrational.

Harmful to your mental health

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