Chapter 7: Eating and Sleep-Wake Disorders Flashcards
mood disorders
Group of disorders involving severe and enduring disturbances in emotionality ranging from elation to severe
depression.
major depressive episode
Most common and severe experience of depression, including feelings of worthlessness, disturbances in
bodily activities such as sleep, loss of interest, and inability to experience pleasure, persisting at least 2 weeks.
mania
Period of abnormally excessive elation or euphoria, associated with some mood disorders.
hypomanic episode
Less severe and less disruptive version of a manic episode that is one of the criteria for several mood disorders.
mixed features
Condition in which the individual experiences both elation and depression or anxiety at the same time. Also known as dysphoric manic episode or mixed manic episode.
major depressive disorder
Severe mood disorder typified by major depressive episodes superimposed
over a background of persistent dysthymic
mood. Also called “Persistent depressive
disorder with intermittent major depressive
episodes.”
persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia)
Mood disorder involving persistently depressed mood, with low self-esteem, withdrawal, pessimism, or despair, present for at least 2 years, with no absence of symptoms for more than 2 months.
double depression
Severe mood disorder typified by major depressive episodes superimposed over a background of persistent dysthymic mood. Also called “Persistent depressive
disorder with intermittent major depressive
episodes.”
hallucinations
Psychotic symptoms of perceptual disturbance in which things are seen, heard, or otherwise sensed although they are not actually present.
delusion
Psychotic symptom involving disorder
of thought content and presence of strong
beliefs that are misrepresentations of reality.
catalepsy
Motor movement disturbance seen in people with some psychoses and mood disorders in which body postures are waxy and can be “sculpted” to remain fixed for long periods.
seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Mood disorder involving a cycling of episodes corresponding to the seasons of the year, typically
with depression occurring during the winter.
integrated grief
Grief that evolves from acute grief into a condition in which the individual accepts the finality of a death and adjusts to the loss.
complicated grief
Grief characterized by debilitating feelings of loss and emotions so painful that a person has trouble resuming a normal life; designated for further study as a disorder
by DSM-5.
disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
Condition in which a child has chronic negative
moods such as anger and irritability without any accompanying mania.
