Anxiety & Bipolar Disorders Flashcards
Feeling of impending doom or disaster from specific or unknown source
Anxiety
Persistent anxiety for 6 months, no real reason, tense and anxious for more than 1/2 of life
General Anxiety Disorder
Freud called General Anxiety Disorder what?
Free Floating Anxiety
Recurrent panic attacks, shortness of breath, chest pains, can go from minutes for hours
Panic Disorder
Irrational, overwhelming, and persistent fear of a object or situation: dread it so much they are willing to go anything to avoid it
Phobic Disorder
Fear of open spaces of being in crowded public spaces
Agoraphobic
Fear of being negatively evaluated in social situations to the point where they stop going out to eat or attend social events
Social Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety provoking thoughts that will not go away: repetitive, ritualistic behaviors that are used to produce a situation
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
What are the top 3 repetitive thoughts with OCD
- Dirt and germs
- Fear of something terrible happening
- Symmetry, order, exactness
What are the top 3 repetitive behaviors with OCD
- Excessive washing, bathing
- Repetitive rituals
- Checking doors and locks
Difficulty discarding or parting with items regardless of actual value
Hoarding Disorder
Repetitive behaviors or mental acts in response to preoccupations with perceived flaws in physical appearance
Body Dysmorphia Disorder
Hair pulling Disorder
Trichotillomania
Skin picking disorder
Excoriation Disorder
Re-experience a traumatic event normally through flashbacks or nightmares
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Common Medications prescribed for Anxiety, OCD, and PTSD
Valium
Librium
Xanax
Ativan
Diazepam
PET Scans show unusually high activity in what part of the lobs that redirects behavior
Frontal Lobe
The cause of anxiety is from what neurotransmitter not functioning properly
GABA
Too much of what leads to the brain overacting and anxiety
Glutamate
Characterize by a wide emotional swing ranging from depression to great euphoria
Mood Disorders
Called the common cold of mental disorders
Deeply unhappy
Bored
Does not feel well
Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder is also called clinical depression and what else?
Unipolar Depression
Recurrent depression that usually occurs during winter and treated with the use of light therapy
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Extreme Mood Swings, Depression, Mania
Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depressive)
Mania, Depressions, Normalcy
Bipolar 1
Only depression and normalcy
Bipolar 2
Childhood relationships with parents who did not need their needs is a what type of explanation for Bipolar
Psychoanalytic
What is one important environmental factor that is thought to be important in understanding depression
Learned Helplessness
The biogenetic explanation for Bipolar Disorders is because there is what type changes in the brain
Chemical
Irregular levels of what causes mania and bipolar 1
Norepinephrine
Low levels of what lead to Bipolar 2
Serotonin/Norepinephrine
Excessive secretion of what from the adrenal glands lead to depressed people
Cortisol
