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Anxiety And Stress Flashcards

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GAD-7 anxiety

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Self check , self applied and rate from 0-3

Helps give you coping strategies to employ

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Eustress

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Good stress
Motivates us and is what gears us up

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distress

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Negative stress
Causes emotional, physical, and psychological problems if we don’t do something about it

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Psychological stress

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Most likely anxiety or guilt and really positive emotions can be stressful in the moment (intense joy, a new baby)

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Spiritual stress

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Crisis of faith
Having difficulty in the moment connecting with their faith
What is my purpose? Why am i here?

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Physical stress

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Extreme temp, chaotic environment , scratch from a tag in a shit

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Psychosocial

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  • where a person gets stress out about what is goin on in the way they think about themselves or the way they percieve themselves

Maybe lost opportunity and didn’t get to do a thing
Self esteem is challenged , end of relationship with difficulty with acceptance

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Types of stress that can contribute to worsening symptoms of a mental health condition

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Psychosocial
Psychological
Physical
Spiritual

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When a type of stress interferes with someone with schizophrenia what can it do

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Encourage hallucinations and delusions

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When a type of stress affects someone with bipolar disorder what can it do?

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It can trigger episodes of both mania and depression

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When types of stress impacts someone with borderline personality disorder what can it trigger

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Episodes of paranoia Anger and self harm

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Healthy coping strategies

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Altruism
Sublimation
Humor
Suppression

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Altruism

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Stress but it makes them motivated to increase someone’s welfare

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Sublimation

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When someone takes a socially unacceptable impulse and turns it into something socially acceptable

Can result in long time permanent conversion of that initial impulse

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Humor

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Used in both healthcare and pt, war zones

Dark jokes only funny to them

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Suppression

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Short term can be useful (instead of crying in class, hold it in till you get to your car)

(Avoid it turning into long term

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Intermediate coping strategies /defense mechanism

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Repression
Displacement
Reaction formation
Somatization
Undoing
Rationalization

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Immature /primitive coping strategies or defense mechanism

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Passive aggression
Acting out
Dissocialization
Devaluation
Idealization
Splitting
Projection

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Managing stress techniques

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Reframing/decatastrophizing
Sleep
Physical excercise
Reduced caffeine

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Decatastrophizing

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Can help rephrase the situation more realistically (instead of being dramatic)

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Reframing

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Telling yourself you are looking forward to it till you actually start looking forward to it

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Sleep

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Restorative
Important to protect
We prioritize sleep over interruption in psyche
So we get things like medication and assessments at the hours they are awake

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In what situations do we not prioritize sleep

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Thyroid or detoxing

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What is effected by anxiety?

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Epi and norepinephrine & cortisol /corticoids

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Short term effects of epi and nor epi
Elevated heart and resp rate Elevated ffa and glucose , and triglycerides increased platelet aggregation Increased kidney clearance Increased blood to skeletal muscles Increased muscular tension
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Short term effects of Orbison /corticoids
Decreased fluid loss Increase glucose /gluconeogenesis Less inflammation Less brain norepinephrine
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PTSD meds
1st line ssri Low dose olanzapine Prazosin
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Uses for low dose anti psychotic olanzapine for PTSD
For psychosis
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Uses of Prazosin for ptsd
Nightmares
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Treatment meds for severe symptoms of anxiety with acute stress disorder
Benzodiazepine & hydroxyzine if tolerated
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What is not useful for the treatment of acute stress disorder
Long term anxiolytics
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Disassocuative disorders
Dissociative identity disorder Dissociative amnesia Dissociative amnesia Dissociative amnesia with fugue Depersonalization Derealization
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Dissociative identity disorder
Formerly known as multiple personality disorder
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Disassociative amnesia
Unable to recall information about self
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Disassociative amnesia with fugue
Amnesia for one’s identity may involve travel or wandering
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Depersonalization
Experience of unreality of detachment from ONES MIND < SELF AND BODY
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Derealization
Experiences of unreality or detachment from ones SURROUNDING
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Propranolol
Used for nightmares and stuff Eases physical symptoms of anxiety and not the anxiety it self
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Clonidine
Anxiety disorder??
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Triad for panic disorder treatment
CBT- reframing Antidepressant - longer term Benzo- short term
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Agoraphobia
Marked by 1 of the following Public trasportation Being in open spaces Being in an enclosed space (theater) Standing in line or being in a crowd Being alone outside the home
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How long is agoraphobia last before diagnosed
Longer than 6 mo
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Social anxiety when diagnosed
Greater than 6 mo
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Acrophobia
Fear of heights
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Claustrophobia
Fear of closed spaces
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Fear of spiders
Arachnophobia
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Fear of flying
Pteromechanophobia
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Phobic disorder treatment
SSRI ( underlying depression) Beta blockers (social events , performance anxiety) Benzo acute management
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Generalized anxiety treatment
CBT Stress management Physical activity Medication
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Meds for GAD
SSri SNRI Benzo Buspirone
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Anxiety r/t other medical condition that we should treat to help alleviate symptoms of anxiety
COPD Parkinson’s Metabolic disorders Hyperthyroidism
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What is the aim to treating OCD
Alleviate anxiety
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Obsessions in OCD
Thoughts , intrusive
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Compulsions in OCD
Behaviors
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OCD contamination
Washing, cleaning
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Loss or fear of loss OCD
Acquiring , collecting , saving
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Symmetry OCD
Ordering , arranging , and repeating counting
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Causing harm OCD
Avoidance of contact
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OCD treatment
Exposure /response prevention SSRI
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Body dysmorphic disorder
Skin picking, mirror checking, brushing hair
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Hoarding disorder
Dangerous , hoarding stuff
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Trichotiillomania
Hair picking
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Skin picking disorder
Risk of infection

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