Depressed people do hold these maladaptive attitudes and the number of these attitudes is strongly correlated with degree of depression. Depressed people found to express cognitive triad. They rate their performance as poor even when they have done well. Depressed patients displayed in experiment overgeneralization, arbitrary inference, selective abstraction, magnification and minimization. They show negative automatic thoughts.
Depressed patients express hopelessness.
Scores on Hopelessness Scale predict response to treatment and is best predictor of suicide, even after discharge. The high rates of concordance for major depressive disorder indicate a major role for heredity in this disorder. Thus, inducing convulsions should cure schizophrenia. No one has any idea why it works Unilateral ECT equally effective as bilateral, but far fewer side effects. Identify negative self-critical thoughts 2.