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Anxiety, Personality, Eating Disorders Flashcards

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Treatment for MDD refractory to other treatment ad for pregnant women with MDD. Also considered when immediate response is needed (acute suicidality), in depression with psychotic features, and for catatonia

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ECT

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Produces a painless seizure in an anesthetized patient. Major adverse effects are disorientation and temporary anterograde/retrograde amnesia usually resolving in 6 months.

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ECT

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Risk factors for suicide completion

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SAD PERSONS

S - Sex (male)
A - Age (teenager or elderly(
D - Depression

P - Previous attempt
E - EtoH or drug use
R - loss of Rational though
S - Sickness (medical illness, 3 or more prescription meds)
O - Organized plan
N - No spouse (divorced, widowed, or single, esp. if childless)
S - Social support lacking

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_________ try more often, ______ succeed in suicide completion more often

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women

men

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Inappropriate experience of fear and worry and its physical manifestations (anxiety) when the source of the fear/worry is either not real or insufficient to account for the severity of the symptoms. Symptoms interfere with daily functioning.

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Anxiety disorder.

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Lifetime prevalence of 30% in women and 19% in men. Includes panic disorder, phobias, PTSD, and GAD.

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Anxiety disorder

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Defined by the presence of recurrent periods of intense fear and discomfort peaking in 10 minutes with at least 4 of the following: Palpitations, Paresthesias, Abdominal distress, Nausea, Intense fear of dying or losing control, light headedness, chest pain, chills, choking, disconnectedness, sweating, shaking, SOB.

STRONG GENETIC COMPONENT.

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Panic disorder

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Treatment for panic disorder

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CBT, SSRIs, Venlafaxine, Benzos

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Person recognizes fear is excessive - cued by presence or anticipation of specific object or situation; treat with desensitization

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Specific phobia

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Exaggerated fear of embarrassment in social situations - treatment?

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Social phobia

Treat: SSRI

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Recurring intrusive thoughts, feelings, or sensations (obsessions) that cause severe distress; relieved in part by the performance of repetitive actions (compulsions).

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OCD

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Behavior inconsistent with one’s own beliefs and attitudes

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Ego dystonic

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OCD is associated with

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Tourette’s

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Treatment for OCD

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SSRIs, clomipramine

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Persistent re-experiencing of traumatic event - may involve nightmares, flashbacks, intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Leads to avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and persistently increased arousal. Disturbance lasts >1 month with onset of symptoms beginning anytime after event, and causes significant distress and/or impaired functioning.

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PTSD

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Treatment for SSRI

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Psychotherapy, SSRI

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Acute Stress Disorder lasts

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between 2 days and 1 month

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Pattern of uncontrollable anxiety for at least 6 months that is unrelated to a specific person, situation, or event. Associated with sleep disturbance, fatigue, GI disturbance, and difficulty concentrating.

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GAD

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GAD Treatment

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SSRIs, SNRIs

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Emotional symptoms (anxiety, depression) causing impairment following an identifiable psychosocial stressor (e.g. divorce/illness) and lasting < 6months

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Adjustment Disorder

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Patient consciously fakes or claims to have a disorder in order to attain a specific secondary gain (avoiding work, getting drugs). Poor compliance with treatment or follow-up of diagnostic tests. Complaints cease after gain (vs. factitious disorder).

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Malingering

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Patient consciously creates physical and/or psychological symptoms in order to assume “sick role” and to get medical attn. (primary gain)

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Factitious disorder

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Chronic factitious disorder with predominantly physical signs and symptoms. Characterized by a history of multiple hospital admissions and willingness to receive invasive procedures.

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Munchausen’s syndrome

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When illness in a child or elderly patient is caused by the caregiver. Motivation is to assume a sick role by proxy. Form of child/elder abuse.

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Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy

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Category of disorders characterized by physical symptoms with no identifiable physical cause. Both illness production and motivation and unconscious drives. Symptoms NOT intentionally produced or feigned. More common in women.

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Somatoform disorders

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Variety of complaints in multiple organ systems (at least 4 pain, 2 GI, 1 sexual, 1 pseudoneurologic) over a period of years, developing before age 30

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Somatization disorder

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Sudden loss of sensory or motor function (e.g. paralysis, blindness, mutism), often following an acute stressor; patient is aware of but sometimes indifferent toward symptoms - more common in females, adolescents, and young adults

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Conversion

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Preoccupation with and fear of having a serious illness despite medical evaluation and reassurance

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Hypochodriasis

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Preoccupation with minor or imagned defect in appearance, leading to signficiant emotional distress or impaired functioning; patients often repeatedly seek cosmetic surgery

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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Prolonged pain with no physical findings; pain is the predominant focus of clinical presentation and psychological factors play an important role in severity, exacerbation, or maintenance of pain

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Pain disorder

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An enduring, repetitive pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself

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Personality trait

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Inflexible, maladaptive, and rigidly pervasive pattern of behavior causing subjective distress and/or impaired functioning; person is usually not aware of problem. Usually presents by early adulthood.

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Personality disorder

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Which cluster - odd or eccentric; inability to develop meaningful social relationships. No psychosis; genetic association with SZ

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A “Weird” - Accusatory, Aloof, Awkward

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Cluster A - Pervasive distrust and suspiciousness; projection is the major defense mechanism

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Paranoid

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Cluster A - Voluntary social withdrawal, limited emotional expression, content with social isolation (vs. avoidant)

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Schizoid = distant

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Cluster A - Eccentric appearance, odd beliefs or magical thinking, interpersonal awkwardness

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Schizotypal = magical thinking

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Which cluster - dramatic, emotional, or erratic; genetic association with mood disorders and substance abuse

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Cluster B - Wild (Bad to the Bones)

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Cluster B - Disregard for and violation of rights of others, criminality; males > females; conduct disorder if < 18 years

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Antisocial = sociopatch

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Cluster B - Unstable mood and interpersonal relationships, impulsiveness, self-mutilation, boredom, sense of emptiness; females > males; splitting is a major defense mechanism

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Borderline

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Cluster B - Excessive emotionality and excitability, attention seeking, sexually provocative, overly concerned with appearance

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Histrionic

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Cluster B - Grandiosity, sense of entitlement; lacks empathy and requires excessive admiration; often demands the “best” and reacts to criticism with rage

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Narcissistic

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Which cluster - anxious or fearful; genetic association with anxiety disorders

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Cluster C - Worried (Cowardly, Compulsive, Clingy)

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Cluster C - Hypersensitive to rejection, socially inhibited, timid, feelings of inadequacy, desires relationships with others (vs. schizoid)

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Avoidant

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Cluster C - Preoccupation with order, perfectionism, and control; ego-syntonic: behavior consistent with one’s own beliefs and attitudes (vs. OCD)

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Obessessive Compulsive

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Cluster C - Submissive and clinging, excessive need to be taken care of, low self-confidence

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Dependent

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Schizoid + odd thinking

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Schizotypal

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Greater odd thinking than schizotypal

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Schizophrenic

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< 1 mo schizophrenia

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Brief psychotic disorder, usually stress related

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1-6 mo schizophrenia

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Schizophreniform disorder

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> 6 mo schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia

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This eating disorder commonly coexists with depression

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Anorexia

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Russell’s sign

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Callouses from induced vomiting, usually associated with bulimia

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Desire to live as the opposite sex, often through surgery or hormone treatment

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TransSEXualism

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Paraphelia; cross-dressing

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TransVESTism

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