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Chapter 39 Mental Health Disorder Flashcards

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Affect

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Feelings and emotions

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Anxiety

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A vague, uneasy feeling in response to stress

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Compulsion

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Repeating an act over and over again

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Defense mechanism

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An unconscious reaction that block’s unpleasant or threatening feelings

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Delusion

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A false belief

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Delusion of grandeur

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An exaggerated belief about one’s importance, wealth, power, or talents

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Delusion of persecution

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A false belief that one is being mistreated, abused or harassed

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Emotional illness

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See mental disorder

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Flashback

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Reliving a trauma in thoughts during the day and in nightmares during sleep

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Hallucination

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Seeing, hearing, smelling, or feeling so that is not real

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Mental

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Relating to the mind; something that exists in the mind or is done by the mind

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Mental health

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The person copes with adjusts to everyday stresses in way accepted by society

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Mental illness

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See “mental disorder””

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Obsession

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Recurrent, unwanted thought, idea,or images

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Panic

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An intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety terror or dread

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Paranoia

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A disorder (para) of the mind (noia); false beliefs (delusions)and suspicion about a person or situation

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Phobia

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An intense fear

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Psychiatric disorder

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See mental disorders

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Psychosis

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A state of severe mental impairment

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Stigma

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A feeling of shame or judgement from someone else

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Stress

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The response or Change in the body caused by any emotional, physical social, or economic factors

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Stressor

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The event or factor that causes stress

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Substance use disorder

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A mental disorder that affects a person brain and behavior

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Suicide

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To kill oneself

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Suicide contagion

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Exposure to suicide or suicidal behaviors within one’s family, one’s peer group, or media reports of suicide

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Withdrawal syndrome

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The person physical and mental response after stopping or severely reducing the use of a substance that was used regularly

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BPD

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Borderline personality disorder

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GI

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Gastrointestinal

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NAMI

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National Alliance on Mental illness

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NIAAA

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National Institute on alcohol abuse and alcoholism

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NIMH

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National Institute of Mental Health

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OCD

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

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PTSD

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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SUD

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Substance Use Disorder

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Pain attack

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Last for 10 minutes or longer

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Compulsion

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Common ritual are hand washing constant checking to make sure the stove is off, cleaning, counting things to a certain number or touching things in certain order

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Schizophrenia

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It is a severe chronic disabling brain disorder

38
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Stress is

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A response or change in the body caused by some factor

39
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Defense mechanisms are used to

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Block unpleasant feeling

40
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These statements are about defense mechanisms. Which is false?

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They prevent mental disorders

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A phobia is

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An intense fear of something

42
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A person cleans and cleans. This behavior is an

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Compulsion

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A person has nightmares about a trauma. The person is having

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Flashbacks

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A woman believes she is married to a rock singer. This is called a

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Delusion of grandeur

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A man believes that someone is trying to kill him.

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This belief is called delusion of persecution

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These statements are about schizophrenia. Which is false?

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It can be cured with medication and therapy

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Bipolar disorder means that the people

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Has a severe mood swings

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In bipolar disorder, an emotional high is called

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Mania

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These statements are about antisocial personality disorder. Which is false?

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The person has regard for right and wrong

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Substance involved in abuse and addiction affects the

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Nervous system

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These statements are about alcoholism. Which is false?

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After treatment, the person can have a social drink

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These statements are about drug addiction. Which is false?

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The person can stop taking the drips without treatment.

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A person has withdrawal this means that ?

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The person has a physical and mental response when the drug is not taken

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Which group has the highest suicide rate?

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White men over 75 years of age

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For men, the most common method of suicide involves

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Firearms

56
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Most person who commit suicide have

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A mental disorder

57
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A person talks about suicide. What should you do?

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Call for the nurse

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