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Mood Disorders

Mood Disorders. Warm-up. Please Read The Sadder-but-Wiser Effect and answer the following questions In your opinion, do you think the findings in these studies are true? Why or why not? How can mood affect the way one views an event?. Mood Disorders.

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Mood Disorders

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  1. Mood Disorders

  2. Warm-up • Please Read The Sadder-but-Wiser Effect and answer the following questions • In your opinion, do you think the findings in these studies are true? Why or why not? • How can mood affect the way one views an event?

  3. Mood Disorders • It is normal to have ups and downs in your mood that reflect your environment • Some people have inappropriate and inconsistent reactions to certain situations

  4. Depression • Characterized by feeling helpless, hopeless, worthless, guilty, and sadness • Major depression is the most common psychological disorder • 8-18% of the population will experience major depression in their lifetime • Severe Depression calls for immediate treatment • 15% may eventually commit suicide

  5. Persistent depressed mood for most of the day • Loss of interest or pleasure in all or almost all activities • Significant weight loss or gain due to change in appetite • Sleeping more or less than usual • Speeding up or slowing down physical and emotional reactions • Fatigue or loss of energy • Feelings of worthlessness or unfounded guilt • Reduced ability to concentrate or make meaningful decisions • Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide

  6. Bipolar Disorder • Characterized by a cycle of mood changes, from depression to elation • Mania: extreme excitement where their behavior is hyperactive and chaotic • Inflated self-esteem • Inability to sit still or sleep restfully • Pressure to keep talking and switch for topic to topic • Racing thoughts • Difficulty concentrating

  7. When I start going into a high, I no longer feel like an ordinary housewife. Instead, I feel organized and accomplished, and I begin to feel I am my most creative self. I can write poetry easily. I can compose melodies without effort. I can paint. My mind feels facile and absorbs everything. I have countless ideas about improving the conditions of mentally retarded children, how a hospital for these children should be run, what they should have around them to keep them happy and calm and unafraid. I see myself as being able to accomplish a great deal for the good of people. I have countless ideas about how the environmental problem could inspire a crusade for the health and betterment of everyone. I feel able to accomplish a great deal for the good of my family and others. I feel pleasure, a sense of euphoria or elation. I want it to last forever. I don’t seem to need much sleep. I’ve lost weight and feel healthy, and I like myself. I’ve just bought six new dresses, in fact, and they look quite good on me. I feel sexy and men stare at me. Maybe I’ll have an affair, or perhaps several. I feel capable of speaking and doing good in politics. I would like to help people with problems similar to mine so they won’t feel hopeless.

  8. Postpartum Depression • Some women experience a period of depression after giving birth • Mothers may feel hopeless and inadequate in their childcare • May affect the parent-infant bonding

  9. Psychological Views • Psychoanalytical: a child may internalize anger resulting in a feeling of guilt • Learning theorists propose the idea of learned helplessness • Cognitive theorists believe that people are prone to depression due to their habitual thinking style

  10. Biological Views • 20-25% of people with a mood disorder have a relative who also suffers from a mood disorder • May have low levels of serotonin and non-adrenaline (chemicals that balances mood)

  11. Aaron Beck proposed that depression can best be described as a cognitive triad of negative thoughts about oneself, the situation, and the future, rather than a mood disorder • Cognitive Errors include: 1. Overgeneralizing: Drawing global conclusions about worth, ability, or performance on the basis of a single fact. 2. Selective abstraction: Focusing on one insignificant detail while ignoring the more important features of a situation. 3. Personalization: Incorrectly taking responsibility for bad events in the world. 4. Magnification and minimization: Gross evaluations of a situation in which small, bad events are magnified and large, good events are minimized. 5. Arbitrary inference: Drawing conclusions in the absence of sufficient evidence or of any evidence at all. 6. Dichotomous thinking: Seeing everything in one extreme or its opposite (black or white, good or bad).

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