Exam 6: Mood Disorders and Suicide

A) rarely shows the symptoms of melancholia.
B) has a poorer prognosis than others with major depression.
C) usually responds rapidly to anti-depressant medications.
D) is diagnosed as having "double depression."

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A) there is no identifiable cause for it.
B) it lasts for more than a month.
C) it ceases to be justified and adaptive.
D) the degree of impairment is judged severe enough to warrant a diagnosis.

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A) enter REM sleep at a normal time, but have very slow and mild rapid eye movements and have less overall time in REM sleep than normal.
B) enter REM sleep earlier than normal and have larger amounts of REM sleep early in the night.
C) show very little REM sleep, instead they spend large amounts of time in the deeper stages 3 and 4) of sleep.
D) do not enter REM sleep until much later in the night than normal and have smaller amounts of REM sleep throughout the night than normal.

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A) both depressed and manic symptoms typically occur simultaneously.
B) a year or two commonly passes between manic and depressed episodes.
C) few patients show both manic and depressed symptoms.
D) a depressed episode is not necessary for a diagnosis.

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A) Gil had been showing both hypomanic and depressed symptoms for over three years.
B) Between her more recent episodes, Carla functioned quite well for 3 weeks.
C) Carol was absolutely convinced that her mother wanted to kill her, although there was no evidence for this.
D) Bob's most recent hypomanic episode lasted 3 days.

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A) Criticism.
B) Denial.
C) Unrealistic hopefulness.
D) Living together without being married.

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