Unit I: Mood/Personality Disorders:

AP PSYCHOLOGY:

Chapter 14-16:

Mood Disorders: 

Major Depression: unhappy for at least two weeks with no apparent cause. It is the common cold of psychological disorders. 

Dysthymic Disorder: suffering from mild depression everyday for at least two years. 

Seasonal Affective Disorder:(SAD): experience depression during the winter months. Based not on temperature, but on the amount of sunlight. 

Bipolar: formally manic depression. Involves 

periods of depression and manic episodes. Manic episodes involves feeling of high energy. 

Personality Disorders: 

-Well established, maladaptive ways of behaving that negatively affect people's ability to function. Dominates their personality. 

Antisocial Personality disorder: Lack of empathy, little regard for others feelings, view the world as hostile and look out for themselves. 

Dependent Personality disorder: rely too much on the attention and help of others. 

Histrionic Personality Disorder: Needs to be the center of attention.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder: having an un warranted sense of self importance. Thinking that you are the center of the universe.