Core disorders Flashcards
Psychological features of anxiety disorders
- Spectrum of feelings from mild unease to terror
- Anticipatory anxiety—- worries or foreboding of events
- Situational or exposure anxiety—— worries in response to a current situation
- Panic attack—– seemingly random trigger, sensation of imminent death
- Can be linked to specific stimuli—— phobias (fear of dying common)
- Derealisation—— “what’s going on can’t be real, this can’t be happening”
- Depersonalisation—– “what’s going on isn’t happening to me” feeling of disconnection
- May be experienced as as repetitive intrusive thoughts- obsessions
- May feel compelled to carry out certain actions to ease obsessions- compulsions
Somatic features of anxiety disorders
Autonomic hyperreactivity- fight or flight out of control
- Muscular tension
- Sweating
- Trembling
- Palpitations
- Chest or abdominal pain
- Choking sensation, difficulty to breathe
Functional impairment of anxiety disorder?
yes, to be diagnosed it must have some funcitonal impact on you
e.g., takes u 4 hours to clean your desk
Unipolar depression
affect doesn’t rise above base hedonic point, only dips into sadness or depression
no mania, recurrent depression
Unipolar depression psychological features
- low mood
- anedonia (loss of interest and enjoyment)
- reduced energy or loack of motivation
- poor concentration
- low self esteem/self confidence
- guilt
- feelings of worthlessness
- pessimistic view of the future
- thoughts or acts of self harm / suicide
Behavioural features of depression
- irritibility
- indeciseveness
- increased worries or anxieties
- social isolation
- reckless behaviours
- disruption to normal functioning
Physiological features of depression
- disturbed sleep (initial insomnia- early morning waking)
- poor appetite
- motor retardation (smaller and less of them)
- constipation
- heightened experience of pain
- loss of libido
- menstrual cycle changes
functional impairment of depression
disruption yes
are suicide rates higher in bipolar or unipolar depression
more likely to attempt suicide w bipolar as the manic energy gives you the drive to kill yourself when before you lacked the motivation.
Physiological reatures of mania
- Increased energy
- Increased libido
- Decreased need for sleep
- Impairmenmt of concentration and attention
- Pressure of speech
- Delusions ( beliefs that are obviously false. They’re symptoms of a disturbance in thinkin) ( a) grandiose b) persecutory)
- Hallucinations (sensory experiences perceived to be real)
Psychological features of mania
- Elevated mood
- Feelings of well being
- Inflated self esteem- grandiosity (better than you are)
- Over-optimism
- Irritibility
- Flight of ideas
- Disinhibition
Behavioural features of mania
- Increased sociability
- Overfamiliarity
- Conceit and boorish behaviour
- Reckless behaviour- financial, sexual, physical risk
- Diruption to normal levels of funcioning
skitzophrenia
what is it
type of psychosis
disorder of possession of thought
disorder of form or process of thought
what 4 aspects can thought be disordered in shizophrenia
(idea that you’re not the only one who controls your thoughts)
- thought echo
- thought insertion (focussing on something and then a random unrelated thought may enter your stream of thought. these thoughts can be belived to have been sent or just acquired)
- thought withdrawal (feels like your thoughts are taken away unexpectedly e.g., mid convo)
- thought broadcasting (feel like you can send/ leak your thoughts to others)
Components of disorders of form or process of thinking (7)
- Loosening of associations- dreailment- knights move of thought
- Circumstantiality- can’t order thoughts, waffle then make way back to inital thought
- Conreteness- literal interpretation- also seen in autism
- Incoherence- word salad
- Flight of ideas-
- Thought block- all thoughts suddenly disappear
- Neologisms- made up words
