Chapter 39 Mental Health Disorder Flashcards
Affect
Feelings and emotions
Anxiety
A vague, uneasy feeling in response to stress
Compulsion
Repeating an act over and over again
Defense mechanism
An unconscious reaction that block’s unpleasant or threatening feelings
Delusion
A false belief
Delusion of grandeur
An exaggerated belief about one’s importance, wealth, power, or talents
Delusion of persecution
A false belief that one is being mistreated, abused or harassed
Emotional illness
See mental disorder
Flashback
Reliving a trauma in thoughts during the day and in nightmares during sleep
Hallucination
Seeing, hearing, smelling, or feeling so that is not real
Mental
Relating to the mind; something that exists in the mind or is done by the mind
Mental health
The person copes with adjusts to everyday stresses in way accepted by society
Mental illness
See “mental disorder””
Obsession
Recurrent, unwanted thought, idea,or images
Panic
An intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety terror or dread
Paranoia
A disorder (para) of the mind (noia); false beliefs (delusions)and suspicion about a person or situation
Phobia
An intense fear
Psychiatric disorder
See mental disorders
Psychosis
A state of severe mental impairment
Stigma
A feeling of shame or judgement from someone else
Stress
The response or Change in the body caused by any emotional, physical social, or economic factors
Stressor
The event or factor that causes stress
Substance use disorder
A mental disorder that affects a person brain and behavior
Suicide
To kill oneself
Suicide contagion
Exposure to suicide or suicidal behaviors within one’s family, one’s peer group, or media reports of suicide
Withdrawal syndrome
The person physical and mental response after stopping or severely reducing the use of a substance that was used regularly
BPD
Borderline personality disorder
GI
Gastrointestinal
NAMI
National Alliance on Mental illness
NIAAA
National Institute on alcohol abuse and alcoholism
NIMH
National Institute of Mental Health
OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
PTSD
Post traumatic stress disorder
SUD
Substance Use Disorder
Pain attack
Last for 10 minutes or longer
Compulsion
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
Schizophrenia
It is a severe chronic disabling brain disorder
Stress is
A response or change in the body caused by some factor
Defense mechanisms are used to
Block unpleasant feeling
These statements are about defense mechanisms. Which is false?
They prevent mental disorders
A phobia is
An intense fear of something
A person cleans and cleans. This behavior is an
Compulsion
A person has nightmares about a trauma. The person is having
Flashbacks
A woman believes she is married to a rock singer. This is called a
Delusion of grandeur
A man believes that someone is trying to kill him.
This belief is called delusion of persecution
These statements are about schizophrenia. Which is false?
It can be cured with medication and therapy
Bipolar disorder means that the people
Has a severe mood swings
In bipolar disorder, an emotional high is called
Mania
These statements are about antisocial personality disorder. Which is false?
The person has regard for right and wrong
Substance involved in abuse and addiction affects the
Nervous system
These statements are about alcoholism. Which is false?
After treatment, the person can have a social drink
These statements are about drug addiction. Which is false?
The person can stop taking the drips without treatment.
A person has withdrawal this means that ?
The person has a physical and mental response when the drug is not taken
Which group has the highest suicide rate?
White men over 75 years of age
For men, the most common method of suicide involves
Firearms
Most person who commit suicide have
A mental disorder
A person talks about suicide. What should you do?
Call for the nurse
