Question

Psychological disorders can be described as following a typical course or individual pattern. For example, schizophrenia follows a chronic course. On the other hand, mood disorders, including depression, follow a(n) ________ course.a. episodicb. acutec. cyclicd. insidious

Answer 1

Answer:

c. cyclic

Explanation:

Unlike a chicken pox that, once cured, will never come back, depression is a disease of a cyclic nature and does not go away after its first manifestation, which is why it should never be ridiculed. We can say that depression follows a cyclical pattern because symptoms related to this disease disappear and reappear over time and the patient with this disease should always be prepared for when a depressive crisis begins.

Depression is not feeling sad, shaken, upset, hurt. It is an inexpressible void. The depressive, in his bad times, has distorted perceptions and thinks that what he sees is real while he is disturbed by fear in its limbic and primitive form. Psychologically vulnerable, he comes to believe in negative superstitions and questions his common sense, which makes him easy prey to that fear.