LEC 3 - Mood Disorders Flashcards
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Sense of difficulty in everyday activities, not just PMS
- Reflects the difficulties between differentiating between normal everyday symptoms from an actual abnormal issue
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
Describes children that acts out of temper in non-normal ways
DMDD Controversies
Is it a broader trend of medicalizing childhood?
- ODD and ADHD already exist
Members of DSM resigned in protest
Don’t want to be associated with such disorder
- Belief that normal kids are being considered sick and being medicated
The great depression
More and younger people being diagnosed with depression (10% of the global disability)
First Common Theory (Depression)
Depression is one cause from modernization
- less active, desk jobs, spend time doing inherently depressing activities (socials)
Second Common Theory (Depression)
Comes from parenting
- Gentle parenting styles more common
- Trying to protect children from these negative emotions are depriving people from experiences that will help them navigate these emotions
Third Common Theory (Depression)
Greater Individualism
- We have been promoting individualist
- Trying to work hard to ‘better yourself’ (Creating competition)]
False Epidemic Argument (Depression)
We aren’t actually sadder, but we are more inclined to read our emotions as illness Medicalization has seeped into our everyday lives
- Easier to get diagnosed, less stigma, society trusts science
Theorized Causes of Depression
- Negative mindsets
- Life events
Major Depressive Disorder Definition
One or more major depressive episode without mania
Symptoms of Depression
Depressed Mood
Insomnia
Worthlessness
Thoughts of death/suicide
Difficultly concentrating
Persistent depressive disorder
Chronic, but milder, depression
Bereavement exclusion debate
Aggressive medicalization or recognition of professional autonomy?
Iis this culturally more sensitive or less so?
An attack on humans as cultural beings more generally?
Should death have exiated status vis-a-vis other stressors?
What Separates Depression and sadness
Depression pervasive and persistent
Doesn’t have a clear/ understandable stimulus.
Involves impaired social/ occupational functioning.
Sensation different, “like being consumed by black cloud”.
Are there biomarkers for depression
Bipolar Disorder
cycling between depressive and manic episodes
