Depression/Psych Flashcards
1
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- Common rxn to stressful life situation: Moving, divorce, physical illness
- bereavement/grief (resolve within 6 mo): Loss of sleep, loss of weight, isolation from friends/relatives
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Adjustment disorder with depressed mood
2
Q
Min 5 out of 9 Sx continuously for 2 weeks:
- Depressed mood (worse in AM)
- Loss interest in activities once liked
- Disturbed appetite
- Fatigue/lost energy
- disturbed sleep
- Agitation
- Guilty feelings
- Suicidal thoughts
- lack of concentration
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Major Depressive disorder
3
Q
- Milder from of MDD for at least 2 yrs (adults); 1 yr (children/adolescents)
- dysphoria with remissions of “normal” mood (not longer than 2 months)
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Dysthymia
4
Q
Seasonal
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Seasonal-Affective Disorder
5
Q
- -More likely to occur weeks/months after delivery
- -characterized by thoughts of harming the child or doubts about competencies as a mother
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Post-partum depression
6
Q
- Dominated by manic episodes
- feelings of elation
- overactivity
- easy distraction
- shifting from one priority to another
- high incidence of substance abuse with these patients
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Bipolar Type 1 disorder
7
Q
Dominated by depressive episodes
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Bipolar Type 2 disorder
8
Q
- Milder form of bipolar I/II
- constant Sx over 2 years
- can keep a job
- consist mood disturbances between hypomania & dysthmic mood
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cyclothymia dosrder
9
Q
- eating disorder
- postprandial regurgitation after most of every meal (without nausea, heartburn, and abdominal pains associated with vomiting)
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Rumination disorder
10
Q
- pervasive pattern of disregard for
- violation of rights of others
- begins with childhood/early adolescence and con’t to adulthood
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Antisocial personality disorder
11
Q
- pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationship, self-image and affects
- as well as marked impulsivity
- beginning by early adulthood and present in variety of contexts
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Borderline personality disorder
12
Q
- Abnormalities in perception/expression of reality
- auditory hallucinations
- paranoid delusions
- disorganized speech & thinking
- significant social and/or occupational dysfx
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paranoid schizophrenia
13
Q
- excessive emotionality & attention-seeking
- excessive need for approval
- inappropriate seductiveness
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Histrionic personality disorder
14
Q
- Avoidance of public and/or unfamiliar places
- confined to his/her home
- experience difficulty traveling from this “safe place”
- fear of panic attacks
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agoraphobia
15
Q
-excessive, uncontrollable irrational worry about everyday things (disproportionate to actual cause for concern)
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Generalized anxiety disorder
