Anxiety & Bipolar Disorders Flashcards

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1
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Feeling of impending doom or disaster from specific or unknown source

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Anxiety

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2
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Persistent anxiety for 6 months, no real reason, tense and anxious for more than 1/2 of life

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General Anxiety Disorder

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3
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Freud called General Anxiety Disorder what?

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Free Floating Anxiety

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4
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Recurrent panic attacks, shortness of breath, chest pains, can go from minutes for hours

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Panic Disorder

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5
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Irrational, overwhelming, and persistent fear of a object or situation: dread it so much they are willing to go anything to avoid it

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Phobic Disorder

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6
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Fear of open spaces of being in crowded public spaces

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Agoraphobic

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Fear of being negatively evaluated in social situations to the point where they stop going out to eat or attend social events

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Social Anxiety Disorder

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Anxiety provoking thoughts that will not go away: repetitive, ritualistic behaviors that are used to produce a situation

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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9
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What are the top 3 repetitive thoughts with OCD

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  1. Dirt and germs
  2. Fear of something terrible happening
  3. Symmetry, order, exactness
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What are the top 3 repetitive behaviors with OCD

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  1. Excessive washing, bathing
  2. Repetitive rituals
  3. Checking doors and locks
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11
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Difficulty discarding or parting with items regardless of actual value

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Hoarding Disorder

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Repetitive behaviors or mental acts in response to preoccupations with perceived flaws in physical appearance

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Body Dysmorphia Disorder

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13
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Hair pulling Disorder

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Trichotillomania

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14
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Skin picking disorder

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Excoriation Disorder

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15
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Re-experience a traumatic event normally through flashbacks or nightmares

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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16
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Common Medications prescribed for Anxiety, OCD, and PTSD

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Valium
Librium
Xanax
Ativan
Diazepam

17
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PET Scans show unusually high activity in what part of the lobs that redirects behavior

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Frontal Lobe

18
Q

The cause of anxiety is from what neurotransmitter not functioning properly

A

GABA

19
Q

Too much of what leads to the brain overacting and anxiety

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Glutamate

20
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Characterize by a wide emotional swing ranging from depression to great euphoria

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Mood Disorders

21
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Called the common cold of mental disorders
Deeply unhappy
Bored
Does not feel well

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Major Depressive Disorder

22
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Major Depressive Disorder is also called clinical depression and what else?

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Unipolar Depression

23
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Recurrent depression that usually occurs during winter and treated with the use of light therapy

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Seasonal Affective Disorder

24
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Extreme Mood Swings, Depression, Mania

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Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depressive)

25
Q

Mania, Depressions, Normalcy

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Bipolar 1

26
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Only depression and normalcy

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Bipolar 2

27
Q

Childhood relationships with parents who did not need their needs is a what type of explanation for Bipolar

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Psychoanalytic

28
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What is one important environmental factor that is thought to be important in understanding depression

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Learned Helplessness

29
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The biogenetic explanation for Bipolar Disorders is because there is what type changes in the brain

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Chemical

30
Q

Irregular levels of what causes mania and bipolar 1

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Norepinephrine

31
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Low levels of what lead to Bipolar 2

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Serotonin/Norepinephrine

32
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Excessive secretion of what from the adrenal glands lead to depressed people

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Cortisol