_vocab/concepts: Depression, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Anxiety, Stress

Question 1

Anergia

Answer 1

Lack of energy or reduction of energy

Question 2

Anhedonia

Answer 2

Inability to find pleasure or meeting in existence

Question 3

Psycho motor agitation

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Psycho motor retardation

Answer 4

Common to people with MDD + anergia/fatigue - lack of energy
+ range from slow/difficult movements to complete inactivity and incontinence

Question 5

Ideas of reference

Answer 5

Thinking that news, conversations, situations are about you – egocentric thoughts

Question 6

Depersonalization

Answer 6

+ Feeling as if you are observing yourself from outside of your body
+ feeling as if the surroundings aren’t real

Question 7

Derealization

Answer 7

+ Feeling detached from your surroundings, surroundings me feel unreal
+ Knowing that this is not a usual state

Question 8

Circumstantiality

Answer 8

+ Indirect speech: person digresses and gives unnecessary, irrelevant details before getting to main point
+ different from tangentiality

Question 9

Tangentiality

Answer 9

+ Person constantly digresses in conversation to irrelevant topics
+ fails to arrive at main point

Question 10

Neologisms

Answer 10

Made up nonsensical newly created words for actual objects

Question 11

Word salad

Answer 11

+ Severe disorganization
+ virtually incomprehensible speech

Question 12

Intervention for disturb thought process

Answer 12

+ Redirect reality-based activities and conversations
+ redirect away from delusional Contant
+ don’t argue
+ communicate simply
+ clarify – don’t pretend understand

Question 13

What is disturbed that process

Answer 13

+ Delusions
+ hallucinations
+ change in level of consciousness in psychosis

Question 14

Cyclothymic disorder

Answer 14

+ Hypomania and depressive episodes not meeting for criteria for major depressive disorder or bipolar

Question 15

Displacement

Answer 15

+ Defense mechanism – negative feelings are transferred from original source of a motion to less threatening person or object

Question 16

Response prevention

Answer 16

+ not doing a compulsive behavior once obsessions triggered

Question 17

Reaction formation

Answer 17

+ 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

Question 18

Sublimation

Answer 18

+ Channeling, socially unacceptable behavior into socially acceptable ones – unwanted impulses into positive actions

Question 19

Undoing

Answer 19

+ Defense mechanism – person tries to cancel, or remove unhealthy, destructive, or otherwise threatening thought, or action by engaging in contrary behavior

Question 20

Compensation

Answer 20

+ Strategy – one covers up consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustration, desires, or feelings of inadequacy, or incompetence through the gratification, excellence, and another – overly compensating

Question 21

PTSD symptoms

Answer 21

+ Traumatic event
+ reexperiencing – flashbacks, nightmares, derealization, depersonalization
+ arousal
+ unable to function
+ month or more
+ avoidance – person or places that trigger feelings

Question 22

Dissociation

Answer 22

+ Unconscious defense mechanism to protect individual from overwhelming anxiety related to past or current trauma

Question 23

• “Dissociative Disorder” definition
• Dissociative disorders (2)
• causes

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Mild anxiety

Answer 24

+ 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

Question 25

Moderate anxiety

Answer 25

+ Narrowed, perceptual field, focuses better if helped, selective attention
+ does not problem solve optimally
+ shakiness
+ frequent urinating
+ increase pulse
+ pacing

Question 26

Severe anxiety

Answer 26

+ Tunnel vision, not able to attend events
+ compromised ability to learn, unable to see connections, distorted perceptions
+ feeling dread, confused, somatic symptoms

Question 27

Panic level anxiety – panic attack

Answer 27

+ Unable to focus
+ may have hallucinations are delusions
+ disorganized, irrational, thinking
+ sense of terror, agitation, and mobility, mute, severe shakiness