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| the typical reasons a person gives for problems in life. Can facilitate determining whether or not someone has depression. (ie: your car blows up. The attribution is your car hates your for being such a bad driver. thar4 you are depressed) |
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| behaviorial activation treatment |
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| A new treatment for depression. Basically you force depressed people to go out and do fun things and talk to people. I am utterly shocked no one thought of this until however long ago it was to determine the label "recent". I mean really. |
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| bipolar disorder with seasonal pattern |
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| Like unipolar depression with seasonal pattern- onset of highs and lows are affected by the weather and seasons |
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| A mental illness (axis I) that involves both manic and depressive episodes that interfere with an individuals functioning |
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| basic bipolarity. criteria includes at least one depressed and manic episode or a mixed episode. |
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| Bipolarity only rather than manic episodes indiv experiences hypo-manic episodes. Which is a bit less than a manic episode. |
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| chronic major depressive disorder |
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| reoccuring depression. must reoccur two years following intial treatment to distinguish from simple relapse or perhaps depression with seasonal pattern |
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| Cognitive Behavior therapy |
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| Therapy that focusing mainly on influencing the train of thought and behavior in an indiv |
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| Essentially dysthymia with different chronology. Other way to look at it is a sort of bipolarity that is too mild to be considered bipolarity. |
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| A mental disorder (axis I) characterized by feelings of worthlessness, extraordinary sadness and a general lack of interest in social activity or anything normally enjoyable |
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| related to Becks cognitive theory. Depressogenic shcemas are thoughts and beliefs that are both dysfunctional and consistent with symptoms and or causes of depression |
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| Depression and dysthymia being comorbid in indiv |
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| A belief that might eventually lead to mental illness under certain circumstances. (ie: albino man is very racist. discovers he's half black. undergoes depression) |
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| persistently depressed mood on more days than not for two years or one in kids. |
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| electro convulsive therapy (ect) |
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| this strange idea that electricity is good for certain mental disorders |
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| a less than manic episode characteristic in Bipolarity II |
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| a rare approach to unipolar depressive in which indiv is instructed personally on the nature of his relationships and actions and then makes an effort to change them. |
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| a thought/behavior pattern brought about by percieving circumstances as uncontrollable. results in passitivity . contributing factor in depression |
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| a drug given to treat manic episodes. |
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| major depressive disorder |
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