Affect Disorders pg4 to Sexual Disorders pg4

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Affect Disorders aka

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Thymic/mood disorders (euthymic = good/normal)

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Mania (necessary) & melancholia (eventually happens) mood swings. Several types depending on length of swings & states. Usually appears at 20-years of age. Elevated rate (obesity, HTN, DM, hyperlipidemia. “potato chip disease”. Tx: lithium, drug stabilizers, mood charting

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Bipolar disease

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causes hypomaniac and mild depressive episodes (small mood swings)

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Cyclothymic

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aka depression, hopelessness, suicidal. 50% are misdiagnosed/unrecognized, self inflicted injuries - “cutter”. High incidence: alzheimers, DM, parkinsons, heart, stroke, cancer, HIV, fibromyalgia and chronic pain. MEdications contribute: blood pressure, hormones, and antibiotics. More prominent in females, re occurance is common. Major depression is 2 weeks of 4 symptoms from the following list: Loss of appetite, insomnia, agitation, worthlessness, suicidal, poor concentration

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Unipolar disease

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Similar to depression, but diagnosis is 2 years of at least 3 symptoms (same list as unipolar). Tx for both depression & dysthymia: personal therapy, drugs, ECT nutrition. B6 (metabolizes tryptophan to serotonin), magnesium, Vit D, calcium, omega 3

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Disthymic

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Seasonal Affect Disorder

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(SAD) Tx: Light, exercise, comfort foods

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Psychosis aka

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altered reality

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Yourng adults are most commonly afflicted, reality is altered, episodic, altered perception, hallucinations. Delusions, hear voices, disorgainized speech (incoherent, clang) Rhyming. Algoria (poverty of speech), Avolition (lack of purposeful action or motivation)

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Schizophrenia

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Types of schitzophrenia

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1 Disorganized - (Old term - Hebephrenic) unpredictable mood shifts. 2 Catatonic - rigid posture, expressionless flat affect, “masked faces” Totally checked out. 3 Paranoid - Delusions of persecution. 4 Schizophreniform - (short lived and mild) adolescent onset, family induced, contradidtory messages

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Old school term. No regard for self or others, abnormal lack of empathy. Combines with strongly amoral conduct masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal. Verbal therapy not effective

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Psychopath

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Believes they are superior, grandiose, lack remorse, shallow emotions, need stimlulation, pathological liar, violent

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Sociopath/Antisocial

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(survival mode) Multiple personalities, childhood abuse and neglect, can be short term event.

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Dissociative

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Physical complaint with no organic pathology (exaggerate complaints), entirely unconcious process,

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Somatoform Disorders

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Convinced of a body flaw (real or imagined) and preoccupied with it (e.g. anorexia nervosa)

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Dysmorphic disorder

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Anorexia nervosa fear of fat. Bulimia Binge and purge (Barretts) Pica no nutritional value

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Food disorder

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(hysteria) Psychic conflict causing physical symptom - single physical impairmnet caused by emptional event

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Conversion disorder

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Preoccupation with personal health or contracting illness

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Hypochondriac

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(aka Briquets syndrome) Females under 30 (usually starts in adolescence) multiple systems, confusing

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Somatization disorder

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(aka psychogenic pain disorder) underlying emotional process, pain often allowes escape from responsibility

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Somatoform pain disorder

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Delusional parasitosis, believes they are invaded by insects, parasites, hair etc

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Morgellons disease

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Exaggerates personal complaints

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Munchausen syndrome

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caregiver inflicts harm on individual they are careing for.

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Munchausen by proxy

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General anxiety disorder

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(GAD) Constant excessive fear, hypervigilant.

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GAD symptoms

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twitching, sweating, dry mouth headache, stomach ache, urinary frequency

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GAD sequelae

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heart failure, head injury, hormone imbalance, endocrine disease, pheumonia and COPD

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Drugs that cause GAD

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cannabis, analgesics, caffine, amphetamines

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Pannic attacks occur with

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GAD, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder

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Phobic people know their fear is _______

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unreasonable

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Social phobias

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social is provoked by people or performancde issues

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Specific phobias

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provoked by object or situation

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Obsessive/compulsive

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repetative thoughts (obsession) repetitive actions (compulsion). actions include: cleaning, checking, repeating, horading, toucing, arranging, mental rituals

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PTSD

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Fear and anxiety following an emotional event. Flashbacks, sleep disorders common, fibromyalgia (tender points), MFS (trigge points), restless leg syndrome (RLS)

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Neurosis

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They are in reality most of the time, but hard on themselves. Low self esteem, defense mechanisms are working overtime. Tx support and enlighten.

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Masochist

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likes abuse

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Sadist

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inflicts abuse

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Voyeur

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enjoys watching

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Exibitionist

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enjoys showing