Notes

- somatic symptom and related disorders:
- Brain doesn't keep wheels going
- Somatic symptom disorder: Distressing or result in significant disruption to daily life
- headache is sign i have brain tumor
- hypochondriases
- conversion disorder: a person develops symptoms such as paralysis, numbness or blindness
- no medical reason for symptoms
- irreversible; more extreme
- factitious disorder imposed on self: psychiatric disorder where one fakes physical or psychological illness or disease to gain sympathy for themselves
- factitious disorder imposed on another: psychiatric disorder where one fakes physical or psychological illnesses or diseases to gain sympathy for themselves
AKA suffocating child to get doctors help
- Depression: in any given 1- year period, 9/5% of the population, or about 18.8 million American adults, suffer from depressive illness
- Major depressive disorder: Combination of symptoms that interfere with ability to wor, sutdy, sleep, eat, and enjoy once pleasurable activities. Basically a binding sensation that grows and becomes a larger burden on the individual.
- dysthimia: depressed mood for most of they day for more days than not as indicated either by subjectie account or observation by others, for at least 2 years, less severe than major depressive disorders
- Basically a known lack in production of some chem.
Psychoanalytical, biological, social-cognitive
1: negative events that occur in adulthood evoke memories of a childhood traumas or unresolved anger

Bipolar and other:
- Mood has two extreme. First is depression, then homeostasis, then a mania episode... which crazy stuff that is brilliance or danger occurring........
Bipolar disorders: Mania
- often affect thinking, judgement, and social behavior in ways that cause serious problems ad embarrassment. Mania, left untreated may worsen to a psychotic state.
Bipolar needs drugs and therapy based things
Psychotherapy - humanistic therapy
- active listening
- unconditional positive regard
- client entered
Biomedical
- mood stabilizers - lithium
- antidepressants 0 ssris block the reuptake of seretonin and norepinephrine
- anti-anxiety drugs - xanax, atiban, and vallium