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double depression
moth major depression and dsthymia are experienced
Dysthymia,
also known as persistent depressive disorder, is a chronic form of depression characterized by a persistent low mood that lasts for at least two yea
premenstural dysphoric disorder
mood swings and irritability durring period
disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
6-18 years
persistnat irritabilkity and temper outburst that are out of peoportion to the situation
catecholamine theory
idea that low levels of norepinephrine led to depression and high levels of norepinephrine lead ot mania
dexamethasone
substance that temporary suppresses the production of cortisl in healthy adults
learned helpnessess
if people feel chronicaly unable to contorl events, they lear a sense of helplessness that leads to depressive symptoms
hopelessness theory
some people have a cognitive valunability that interacts with stressful life events to increase likelyhood of depression
negative inferntial stle
tendancy to intperpret failures in life as a stable and global factors within a person, to assume negatice consequences of these failures and infer negative self characteristic
cognitive traid
self, world, future
concordance rate
rate that a disorder is shared with family
GABA
neurotransmitter thay inhibits postsynaptic activy
benzodiazepines
durg to alleviate fear and panic
prepardness theory
people are biologically prepped to fear certain things
graduated phobias
basically exposure therapy
flooding
exposing to prolonged persentations of most intense veriosn of feared stimulus
participant modeling
a model demonstraites fearlessness with client is given increasingly close contact with fear
agrophobia
fear of open spaces or seperated from a safe place related to a fear of having a panic attack
locus coeruleus
small area of brain stem in which abnormalities are associated with alarm or panic
trichotillomania
hair pulling
excoriation
skin picking
glutamate
the goat nuerotransmitter, precursor to gaba`
exposure and responce prevention
treatment for OCD
making people face thier obession without their complusions
habit reversal training
cog-behav treatment for hair pulling, skin picking, and other stufff