psychopathology depression

Question 1

what is depression

Answer 1

is a mood disorder that has a range of emotional, behavioral, and cognitive characteristics

Question 2

what are the two types of depression?

Answer 2

.bipolar
.unipolar

Question 3

what is bipolar depression?

Answer 3

mood changing from a depressed state to a manic state (mood-elevating)

Question 4

what is unipolar depresion?

Answer 4

a sustained depressive episode

Question 5

what are some of the behavioral characteristics of depression?

Answer 5

.change in activity levels casing a reduction of energy, excessive tiredness, and some extreme cases of not leaving your house.

.disterbed sleep patterns, insomnia
.significantly more sleep

Change in appetite and casing the patient to loos recessive weight loss or gaining excessive weight

Question 6

what are some Emotional characteristics?

Answer 6

feeling depressed causing feelings of worthlessnes and a lack of interest in activities

feeling angry at someone or yourself causes self harm

Question 7

what are some cognitive characterisitcs

Answer 7

.finding it hard to pay attention to things and having a slow response in making decisions

.foucosing on the negative aspects of a situation rather than positive casing recurrent thought of self harm

.adopting absolute thinking

Question 8

what is absolute thinking in cognitive characteristics

Answer 8

seeing stituations as entirely good or entirely bad casing it to be really irrational as if someone where in a negative situation they would think it as an absolute disaster