Bipolar & Related Disorders (PowerPoint) Flashcards
Classifications of Drugs Used to Treat Mania
Acts as a mood stabilizer.
a. ) Lithium
b. ) Antipsychotics
c. ) Anticonvulsants
d. ) Anti-anxiety
Anticonvulsants
Acts as a mood stabilizer.
Classifications of Drugs Used to Treat Mania
Used if a patient cannot use other drugs. Good to increase sleep.
a. ) Lithium
b. ) Antipsychotics
c. ) Anticonvulsants
d. ) Anti-anxiety
Anti-anxiety
Used if a patient cannot use other drugs.
Good to increase sleep.
Classifications of Drugs Used to Treat Mania
Brings mania down quickly (in several days).
a. ) Lithium
b. ) Antipsychotics
c. ) Anticonvulsants
d. ) Anti-anxiety
Antipsychotics (often used with lithium)
Brings mania down quickly (in several days).
Classifications of Drugs Used to Treat Mania
Mood stabilizer. May take weeks to reduce mania.
a. ) Lithium
b. ) Antipsychotics
c. ) Anticonvulsants
d. ) Anti-anxiety
Lithium
Mood stabilizer.
May take weeks to reduce mania.
A patient who has been taking lithium carbonate 300 mg tid comes to the office with a list of meds he is taking. Which medication would require re-evaluation of lithium dosage and why?
a. ) Respirdal
b. ) Ativan
c. ) Amoxicillin
d. ) Hydrodiuril
d.) Hydrodiuril
diuretic
Which anticonvulsant medication might be prescribed for a patient with bipolar disorder?
a. ) divalproex sodium or valproate (Depakote)
b. ) clonazepam (Klonopin)
c. ) olanzapine (Zyprexa)
d. ) lithium (Lithobid)
Which anticonvulsant medication might be prescribed for a patient with bipolar disorder?
a.) divalproex sodium or valproate (Depakote)
Bipolar & Related Disorders
“Classic” bipolar = mania.
a. ) Bipolar I
b. ) Bipolar II
c. ) Cyclothymic
Bipolar I
Bipolar & Related Disorders
Mild hypomania and mild depression (not MDD).
a. ) Bipolar I
b. ) Bipolar II
c. ) Cyclothymic
Cyclothymic
Mild hypomania and mild depression (not MDD).
Bipolar & Related Disorders
Severe depression + hypomanic episodes.
a. ) Bipolar I
b. ) Bipolar II
c. ) Cyclothymic
Bipolar II
Severe depression + hypomanic episodes.
A 25-year-old female was admitted this morning with bipolar disorder most recent episode (MRE) mania.
Is the diagnosis Bipolar I or II?
Bipolar I
A 25-year-old female was admitted this morning with bipolar disorder most recent episode (MRE) mania.
Mania: Thought Processes & Speech Patterns
Inflated self-regard of ideas; “I can do anything!”
a. ) Pressured speech
b. ) Flight of ideas
c. ) Circumstantial
d. ) Clang associations
e. ) Grandiosity
Grandiosity
Inflated self-regard of ideas; “I can do anything!”
Mania: Thought Processes & Speech Patterns
Includes much indirectness with lots of details any may never get to the point.
a. ) Pressured speech
b. ) Flight of ideas
c. ) Circumstantial
d. ) Clang associations
e. ) Grandiosity
Circumstantial
Includes much indirectness with lots of details any may never get to the point.
do not need to be bipolar to be circumstantial
Mania: Thought Processes & Speech Patterns
Hasty, emphatic speech, often too loud.
a. ) Pressured speech
b. ) Flight of ideas
c. ) Circumstantial
d. ) Clang associations
e. ) Grandiosity
Pressured speech
Hasty, emphatic speech, often too loud.
Mania: Thought Processes & Speech Patterns
Meaningless rhyming of words, often with force (“Brain-Drain-Rain”).
a. ) Pressured speech
b. ) Flight of ideas
c. ) Circumstantial
d. ) Clang associations
e. ) Grandiosity
Clang associations
Meaningless rhyming of words, often with force
(“Brain-Drain-Rain”)
Mania: Thought Processes & Speech Patterns
Constant flow of fast speech, abrupt changes of topic.
a. ) Pressured speech
b. ) Flight of ideas
c. ) Circumstantial
d. ) Clang associations
e. ) Grandiosity
Flight of ideas
Constant flow of fast speech, abrupt changes of topic.
