Culture and Suicide/ Personality Disorders Flashcards
Indigenous Peoples
- basis of identity is tribe
- person is an entity only in relation to others
- disease is a lack of harmony between individual and environment
5 Dimensions of Personality
- Extraversion vs Introversion
- Antagonism vs Compliance
- Constraint vs Impulsivity
- Emotional Dysregulation vs Emotional Stability
- Unconventionalality vs Closed to experience
Trademark of Personality Disorder
ensuring pattern- pervasive and inflexible
Enmeshment
- no distinct differentiation between primary caregivers and themselves
BPD
- chronic trauma
- pervasive anxiety that cannot be alleviated by usual coping methods s
3 Traits Common to PD
- Lack of Insight
- External Response to Stress
- Failure to Accept Consequences
Signs and Symptoms of Personality Disorders
- affective dysregulation
- mood lability
- problems with anger
- emotional exaggeration
- chaotic relationships
fears of abandonment - self-dysregulation
- identity disturbances
- sense of emptiness
- impulsiveness
4 Common Defence Mechanisms
- Devaluation
- Displacement
- Passive Aggression
- Splitting
Cluster A Personality Disorders (2 types)
- odd, eccentric
- paranoid
1. Schizoid (detachment from social relationships)
2. Schizotypical (reduced capacity for close relationships - *Dumbledore
Cluster B Personality Disorders (4 types)
- dramatic, erratic
1. Historic- attention seeking
2. Narcissistic- grandiosity, lack of empathy
3. Borderline- instability of relationships, self image, and affect, impulsivity
4. Antisocial-disregard for the rights of others
Cluster C Personality Disorders (3 Types)
- fearful
1. Avoidant- feelings of inadequacy, hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
2. Dependent- excessive need to be taken care of, clingy, fear of separation
3. Obsessive/Compulsive- orderliness and perfection
Pharmacologic Interventions for Controlling Emotional Dysregulations
- SSRIs
- MAOIs
Somatic Symptom Disorder
- distressing symptoms
- maladaptive response
- without significant physical findings and medical diagnosis
- suffering is authentic
- high level of functional impairment
Illness Anxiety Disorder
- misinterpretation of physical sensations
- over concerned for health and preoccupied with symptoms
- extreme worry and fear
- course of illness chronic and relapsing
Conversion Disorder
- neurological symptoms in the absence of a neurological diagnosis
- presence of deficits in voluntary motor or sensory functions
Common Symptoms of Conversion Disorder
- paralysis
- blindness
- movement and gait issues
- numbness
- parasthesia
- deafness/blindness
- epileptic episodes
Factitious Disorder
- artificially, deliberately, dramatically fabricate symptoms or self-inflict injury
- assuming a sick role
Dissociative Disorders
- after serious trauma
- ## severe interruption of consciousness
Dissociative Amnesia
- inability to recall important personal information
- often traumatic or stressful nature
Dissociative Identity Disorder
- presence of two or more distinct personality states
- each personality has it’s own pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about self and environment
