Day 3: Depressive, Bipolar, and Anxiety Disorders

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

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

Persistent Depressive disorder (or Dysthymia)

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

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

Mania

a mood disorder characterized by a wildly optimistic state.

Depression

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

Biopolar cycling

Pattern of frequent, distinct episodes in bipolar disorder.

Bipolar I disorder

Symptoms: Involves severe mania and often depression

Causes: Genetics, brain abnormalities, and enviromental factors

Bipolar II disorder

Symptoms: less severe form of mania/ hypomania

Possible causes: Genetics, brain abnormalities, and enviromental factors

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Symptoms:

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

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

Maladaptive Thinking

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

Harmful to your mental health