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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4
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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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5
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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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9
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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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10
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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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12
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Healthy coping strategies

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Altruism
Sublimation
Humor
Suppression

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13
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Altruism

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

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14
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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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15
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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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16
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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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17
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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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19
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Managing stress techniques

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Reframing/decatastrophizing
Sleep
Physical excercise
Reduced caffeine

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20
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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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22
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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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23
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In what situations do we not prioritize sleep

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Thyroid or detoxing

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24
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What is effected by anxiety?

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Epi and norepinephrine & cortisol /corticoids

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25
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Short term effects of epi and nor epi

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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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26
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Short term effects of Orbison /corticoids

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Decreased fluid loss
Increase glucose /gluconeogenesis
Less inflammation
Less brain norepinephrine

27
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PTSD meds

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1st line ssri
Low dose olanzapine
Prazosin

28
Q

Uses for low dose anti psychotic olanzapine for PTSD

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For psychosis

29
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Uses of Prazosin for ptsd

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Nightmares

30
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Treatment meds for severe symptoms of anxiety with acute stress disorder

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Benzodiazepine & hydroxyzine if tolerated

31
Q

What is not useful for the treatment of acute stress disorder

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Long term anxiolytics

32
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Disassocuative disorders

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Dissociative identity disorder
Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative amnesia with fugue
Depersonalization
Derealization

33
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Dissociative identity disorder

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Formerly known as multiple personality disorder

34
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Disassociative amnesia

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Unable to recall information about self

35
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Disassociative amnesia with fugue

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Amnesia for one’s identity may involve travel or wandering

36
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Depersonalization

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Experience of unreality of detachment from ONES MIND < SELF AND BODY

37
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Derealization

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Experiences of unreality or detachment from ones SURROUNDING

38
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Propranolol

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Used for nightmares and stuff

Eases physical symptoms of anxiety and not the anxiety it self

39
Q

Clonidine

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Anxiety disorder??

40
Q

Triad for panic disorder treatment

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CBT- reframing
Antidepressant - longer term
Benzo- short term

41
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Agoraphobia

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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

42
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How long is agoraphobia last before diagnosed

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Longer than 6 mo

43
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Social anxiety when diagnosed

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Greater than 6 mo

44
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Acrophobia

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Fear of heights

45
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Claustrophobia

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Fear of closed spaces

46
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Fear of spiders

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Arachnophobia

47
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Fear of flying

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Pteromechanophobia

48
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Phobic disorder treatment

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SSRI ( underlying depression)
Beta blockers (social events , performance anxiety)
Benzo acute management

49
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Generalized anxiety treatment

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CBT
Stress management
Physical activity
Medication

50
Q

Meds for GAD

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SSri
SNRI
Benzo
Buspirone

51
Q

Anxiety r/t other medical condition that we should treat to help alleviate symptoms of anxiety

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COPD
Parkinson’s
Metabolic disorders
Hyperthyroidism

52
Q

What is the aim to treating OCD

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Alleviate anxiety

53
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Obsessions in OCD

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Thoughts , intrusive

54
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Compulsions in OCD

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Behaviors

55
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OCD contamination

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Washing, cleaning

56
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Loss or fear of loss OCD

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Acquiring , collecting , saving

57
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Symmetry OCD

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Ordering , arranging , and repeating counting

58
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Causing harm OCD

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Avoidance of contact

59
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OCD treatment

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Exposure /response prevention
SSRI

60
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Body dysmorphic disorder

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Skin picking, mirror checking, brushing hair

61
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Hoarding disorder

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Dangerous , hoarding stuff

62
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Trichotiillomania

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Hair picking

63
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Skin picking disorder

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Risk of infection