_vocab/concepts: Depression, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Anxiety, Stress Flashcards
Anergia
Lack of energy or reduction of energy
Anhedonia
Inability to find pleasure or meeting in existence
Psycho motor agitation
Looked for when assessing depression - a physical change presenting clinical symptoms
+ Pacing
+ biting nails
+ smoking
+ tapping fingers
+ tension relieving activities
+ feeling fidgety and unable to relax
Psycho motor retardation
Common to people with MDD + anergia/fatigue - lack of energy
+ range from slow/difficult movements to complete inactivity and incontinence
Ideas of reference
Thinking that news, conversations, situations are about you – egocentric thoughts
Depersonalization
+ Feeling as if you are observing yourself from outside of your body
+ feeling as if the surroundings aren’t real
Derealization
+ Feeling detached from your surroundings, surroundings me feel unreal
+ Knowing that this is not a usual state
Circumstantiality
+ Indirect speech: person digresses and gives unnecessary, irrelevant details before getting to main point
+ different from tangentiality
Tangentiality
+ Person constantly digresses in conversation to irrelevant topics
+ fails to arrive at main point
Neologisms
Made up nonsensical newly created words for actual objects
Word salad
+ Severe disorganization
+ virtually incomprehensible speech
Intervention for disturb thought process
+ Redirect reality-based activities and conversations
+ redirect away from delusional Contant
+ don’t argue
+ communicate simply
+ clarify – don’t pretend understand
What is disturbed that process
+ Delusions
+ hallucinations
+ change in level of consciousness in psychosis
Cyclothymic disorder
+ Hypomania and depressive episodes not meeting for criteria for major depressive disorder or bipolar
Displacement
+ Defense mechanism – negative feelings are transferred from original source of a motion to less threatening person or object
Response prevention
+ not doing a compulsive behavior once obsessions triggered
Reaction formation
+ Defense mechanism – when opposite of true feelings are expressed, sometimes to exaggerate extent – – man who feels insecure about masculinity my act aggressively towards a gay man
Sublimation
+ Channeling, socially unacceptable behavior into socially acceptable ones – unwanted impulses into positive actions
Undoing
+ Defense mechanism – person tries to cancel, or remove unhealthy, destructive, or otherwise threatening thought, or action by engaging in contrary behavior
Compensation
+ Strategy – one covers up consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustration, desires, or feelings of inadequacy, or incompetence through the gratification, excellence, and another – overly compensating
PTSD symptoms
+ Traumatic event
+ reexperiencing – flashbacks, nightmares, derealization, depersonalization
+ arousal
+ unable to function
+ month or more
+ avoidance – person or places that trigger feelings
Dissociation
+ Unconscious defense mechanism to protect individual from overwhelming anxiety related to past or current trauma
- “Dissociative Disorder” definition
- Dissociative disorders (2)
- causes
Depersonalization disorder, dissociative amnesia
+ Disruption in normally coordinated mental functions: consciousness, memory, identity, perception
+ Self is separated from current reality to keep self safe — dreamy, or mechanical feeling
+ causes: early, which change, Neuro, transmitters, genetics, learned responses to stress/trauma
Mild anxiety
+ Can still work effectively and problem solve
+ restless, impatient, mild tension, relieving behaviors, Dash tapping foot, nail, biting, + heightened, perceptual field, ability to identify anxiety producing issues
Moderate anxiety
+ Narrowed, perceptual field, focuses better if helped, selective attention
+ does not problem solve optimally
+ shakiness
+ frequent urinating
+ increase pulse
+ pacing
Severe anxiety
+ Tunnel vision, not able to attend events
+ compromised ability to learn, unable to see connections, distorted perceptions
+ feeling dread, confused, somatic symptoms
Panic level anxiety – panic attack
+ Unable to focus
+ may have hallucinations are delusions
+ disorganized, irrational, thinking
+ sense of terror, agitation, and mobility, mute, severe shakiness
