Abnormal Psychology

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Abnormal Psychology

Anti manic drugs (Lithium)- side effects
Very useful but has side effects.. liver toxic, weight gain, clear ups ppl feel s lower-ranking

inclination stabilizers - anti manic
-Lithium
-Depakote ,Tegretol , Valporic acid =>anti seziure taken with combo of ssris - prevent passionateness but not depression

EST( Electro convulsive therapy)( shock treatment)
Intentionally generate grand mal seizure by exposing the brain to very low doses of electrical current.
Used in controlled situations to treat sever depression.
make to ppl who are resistant to treatment and therapy and have sever depression, bipolar.
sometimes done to prevent depression from occurring again.
Very effective.
Psycho neighborly treatments for depression

- Psychoanatlytinc
ppl become angry but are over whelmed by it and afraid to verbalisees. irrationally angered at the death of a love one blaming the dead for dying.The anger is turned in against the self.
Dr. trys to get the person to understand underlying conflict and express feeling of anger.
-Behaviorists
depressive disorder results from the removal of reinforcements in a persons environment.




Depression follows a loss, they would say that everything in our life is reinforcement resembling a relationship if the person is asleep(p) the reinforcement is gone so you dont want to get up in the morning, they would encourage the person to find other things to do.
cognitive perspective
Our response to world changes how we feel
Learned helplessness
**Attribution- why something happens. Internal - b/c a person is outgoing . External-b/c it was a party. To justify ppls action.
blue ppl tend to make specific types of attribution.
Depressed ppl make internal attributions when badd things happens
Not depressed ppl make immaterial attributions and if it is internal they can say they can change it, or they try to change it.
When good things happen depressed ppl make external attributions ( i got lucky)
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