Week #5

Mood Disorders

Personality Disorders

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Notes referenced from or revision of: 

Pearson Health

by Pruitt, Allegrante,Prothrow-Stith

Chapter 4 pages: 80-109

Mood Disorders: experience extreme emotions that make it difficult to function well in their in daily lives.

Bipolar Disorder (Manic-Depressive Disorder): Experience extreme happiness (manic phase or mania) to sudden and extreme sacredness (depressive phase or depression). 

Impulse Control Disorder: can not resist the impulse, or drive, to act in a way that is harmful to themselves or others.

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Personality Disorders:

1. Group A: Cold and Distant (Paranoid personality disorder and Schizoid personality disorder)

2. Group B: Overly Emotional or Unstable (Antisocial personality disorder -psychopath AND Narcissistic personality disorder)

3. Group C: Can Not Make Decisions (Dependent personality disorder)

Depression and Suicide:

• Clinical Depression: feelings of sacredness or hopelessness for months.

• Cutting: is the use of a sharp object to intentionally cut or scratch one's body

• Suicide: The intentional killing of self

Understand the safest approach to helping a friend.

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Risk factors for depression:

• a parent or a close biological relative with a mood disorder

• a major life change or a prolonged stressful situation

• being the victim of violence

• a previous bout of depression

• a sense of hopelessness 

Risk factors for suicide: 

• A previous suicide attempt

• having both a mental disorder and a substance abuse disorder

• feelings of hopelessness or isolation

• lack if access to mental health treatment

• being influenced by the suicide of family members, peers or celebrities 

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