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What is the difference between dysphoria and euphoria?
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| Dysphoria is a feeling of sadness while euphoria is a feeling of elation. |
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| What is the difference between major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder? |
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Major depressive disorder include acute, but time limited, periods of depressive symptoms while those with dysthymic disorder struggle with more chronic but less severe depression. |
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How long must intense sadness last in order to be diagnosed as a major depressive episode?
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What are some of the symptoms of a Major Depressive Episode?
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- Depressed mood
- Diminished interest or pleasure in all or most daily activities
- Significant unintentional weight loss or appetite decrease or increase
- Insomnia or hypersomnia
- Psychomotor agitation or retardation
- Fatigue or energy loss
- Feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt
- Concentration difficulty or indecisiveness
- Recurrent thoughts of death or suicidality
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| __% of people who have one episode of major depressive disorder will have a second episode. Among those who have experienced two episodes, __% will have a third, and among those who have had three episodes, __% will have a fourth. |
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What is bipolar disorder?
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| A mood disorder which involves an intense and very disruptive experience of extreme elation, or euphoria, possibly alternating with major depression episodes. |
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| a full blown expression of extreme symptoms involving abnormally heightened levels of thinking, behavior, and emotionality that causes impairment in social or occupational functioning. |
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| What is cyclothymic disorder? |
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| A mood disorder involving alternations between dysphoria and briefer, less intense disruptive states of euphoria called hypomanic episodes. |
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| What are some symptoms of a manic episode? |
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- Inflated self esteem or grandiosity
- Decreased need for sleep
- Increased talkativeness
- Flight of ideas or racing thoughts
- Distractibility
- Increase in goal-directed activity or psychomotor agitation
- Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities with potentially painful consequences
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| In the midst of a manic episode, many people report feeling “on top of the world”. What is the downside of a manic episode? |
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The euphoria a person experiences during a manic episode may turn into extreme irritability, aggressiveness, and hostility. Also, manic individuals tend to seek out pleasurable activities without thinking about the consequences. |
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What is the difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II?
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Bipolar I disorder is diagnosed in individuals who experience one or more manic episodes with the possibility, though not the necessity, of having experienced one or more major depressive episodes. A diagnosis of Bipolar II is given to the individuals who has had one or more major depressive episodes and have had an episode I which they become sufficiently energized to meet the criteria for a hypomanic episode, but have never experienced a full blown manic episode. |
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| What is response-contingent positive reinforcement? |
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Behaviors that increase in frequency as the result of performing actions that produce pleasure. |
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What is the cognitive triad?
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A set of thoughts that Beck suggests depressed people activate in order to react to stressful experiences; It is a negative view of the self, the world, and the future, and once it is activated the depressive schema continues in a cycle of negativity, causing the cycle of depression to continue. |
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What are cognitive distortions?
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Errors that people who are depressed make in the way they draw conclusions from their experiences. |
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| What gender is most likely to attempt suicide? What gender is most likely to succeed at committing suicide? |
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| Women are more likely than men to attempt suicide; men are more likely to commit suicide |
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| Suicide is the third leading cause of death for what age group? |
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| Individuals between the ages 15-24 |
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| What does suicidal intent refer to? |
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| How committed a person is to dying; a person who is committed to dying would be regarded as having a high degree of suicidal intent |
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What does suicidal lethality refer to?
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| The dangerousness of the person’s intended method of dying |
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