Intro To Psych Flashcards
4 differences between mental and physical illness
- People don’t perceive themselves to be ill
- No scientific basis to diagnosis
- Perceived lack of treatment
- Agents of social control
What is psychic anxiety
Feeling of fear/dread
Physical symptoms of psychic anxiety
Palpitations, sweating, dry mouth, splanchnic vasoconstriction (butterflies), tremor, paraesthesia (pins and needles), depersonalisation, syncope
What is anergia
Loss of energy
What is anhedonia
Loss of enjoyment
Treatment for depression
Medication (antidepressants)
Psychological therapies (CBT)
Social prescribing
What is mania characterised by?
Elation, grandiose, little need for sleep, irritability, poor concentration, poor judgement, rapid speech
5 symptoms of schizophrenia
- hallucination
- delusion
- abnormal behaviour
- disorganised speech
- disturbances of emotions
What are disturbances of emotion
Marked apathy or disconnect between reported emotion and what is observed such as facial expression or body language
What is schizophrenia: formal thought disorder?
Failing to follow the rules of language
Treatment for schizophrenia
Antipsychotics
Psychological therapies
Family therapy
Arts therapies
Examples of delusion
- fixed false beliefs
- persecutory
- thought possession and passivity
Examples of disorganised speech?
- neologisms (making up new words/expressions)
- formal thought disorder
What are obsessions
- ego-dystonic thoughts (distressing to one self)
- repetitive ruminations
- insight maintained (they know they’re unnatural)
- resistance leads to anxiety
What are compulsions
- motor response to obsessional thoughts
- often ritualistic, stereotyped, precise
- start again if interrupted or doubt
