Transcript Mood Disorders

Please respond to the following
question
• Define the term depression in your own
words. Describe a time in your life when
you were depressed. How did you get
through it?
Mood Disorders
Chapter 18
Section 5
By the Shore
Death in the Sickroom
The Scream
Mood Disorders
Most people get depressed
occasionally.
However, clinical depression is a
serious mood disorder that has
little in common with the “blue
moods” most people have from
time to time.
People with these types of
disorders have intense moods
that last a long time.
What is depression?
Depression is a state of low mood and
aversion to activity that can affect a person’s
thoughts, behavior, feelings and state of
well-being.
Seasonal Affective Disorder
• A type of depression
• Less light available in
winter= more
melatonin secreted by
the pineal gland.
• Treatments:
temporary sleep
deprivation, exposure
to artificial light
Major Depressive Disorder
• The major depressive
disorders are so severe
that they interfere with
normal concentration and
social functioning.
• Symptoms can include
loss of appetite,
sleeplessness, and
noticeable weight
changes (either an
increase or decrease).
Major Depressive Disorder (cont.)
People who suffer from major depression
tend to feel a deep hopelessness, view
themselves as inadequate and/or
worthless, and often have suicidal
impulses.
Bipolar Disorder
• Sufferers alternate
between despair and
mania
• Manic phase: elation,
confusion
• Depressive phase:
same as for people
with major depression
Bipolar Disorder (cont)
• Some have theorized that the two phases
reinforce one another, with the manic
episode serving as an attempt to ward off
the underlying hopelessness of the
depressive period.
• Others believe that bipolar disorder has a
biochemical origin.
• Bipolar disorder may possibly be cyclical,
occurring at regular intervals
Bi-polar and teens
• Richie’s video
Explaining Mood Disorders
Psychological Views
• Psychoanalytic of depression:
– People are prone to depression because they
suffered a real or imagined loss of a loved
object or person in childhood.
• Learning Theories of depression:
- Believe that people that learned helplessness
makes people prone to depression.
Explaining Mood Disorders
Psychological Views
• Cognitive Theorists of depression:
– Some people are prone to depression
because of their habitual style of explaining
life events,
– People assign different types of explanation to
most events
Explaining Mood Disorders
Biological Views
• Moods disorders, like anxiety disorders,
tend to occur more often in the close
relatives of affected individuals that they
do in the general population.
• Between 20% & 25% of people with mood
disorders have a family member who is
affected by a similar disorder.
• Scientist believe that 2 neurotransmitters
in the brain- serotonin and noradrenalinemay at least partly explain the connection
between genes and mood.
Suicide
• Escape from physical or emotional pain,
terminal illness or loneliness, old age
• Desire to end “unacceptable” feelings
• Attempt to “punish” loved ones who they
feel should have perceived and attended
to their needs.
Suicide (cont)
• Every year, more than 32,000 Americans end
their own lives
• One suicide occurs every 16 minutes.
• Women attempt suicide more than men, but men
are more likely to succeed.
• Suicide also occurs more commonly among the
elderly and college students (its actually the 2nd
leading cause of death among college students).
• 70% of those who threaten suicide kill
themselves within 3 months of making the
threat.
Suicide (cont)
• Risk factors:
– History of previous suicide
attempts
– Family history of suicide
– History of depression or
other mental illness
– Alcohol or drug abuse
– Stressful life event or loss
– Easy access to lethal
methods
– Exposure to the suicidal
behavior of others
– Incarceration
Kurt Cobain
• Even people who seemingly
“have it all” commit suicide
sometimes.
• Musician Kurt Cobain of the
band Nirvana was at the top of
the charts when he killed
himself with a shotgun,
He left behind a note which stated, “ I’m too much of an erratic, mood baby!
I don’t have the passion any more and so remember, its better to burn out
than to fade away.”