Lecture 11: Psychotic Disorders Part 1 Flashcards
Example of a psychiatric symptom with no adaptive benefit
Psychosis
Psychosis
Loss of contact with reality
Evidence of psychosis (3)
- Hallucinations
- Delusions
- Thought disorder
Hallucinations most commonly include: (3)
Rank from most common to least common as well
- Auditory (most common)
- Visual (Less common)
- Tactile (even less common)
Common delusions include (7)
- Persecutory delusions
- Delusions of reference
- Grandiose delusions
- Delusions of guilt
- Erotomania
- Religious delusions
- Mind reading (you are reading my mind)
Example of a persecutory delusions
I’m being followed by the FBI
Example of delusions of reference
The TV has messages for me
Example of erotomania
Ryan gosling is my boyfriend
Common symptoms of thought disorder include (5)
- Tangentiality
- Derailment
- Schizophasia
- “Clanging”
- Thought blocking
What is tangentiality
Changing topics rapidly and haphazardly
What is derailment or also known as _____ _________?
Loose associations
Speaking a set of unrelated or minimally related ideas that are difficult for others to follow
Schizophasia or “____ _____”
Word salad
Scrambled works such that even a sentence is incomprehensible
“Clanging” what is it?
Associations based on the sound of a word rather than its meaning eg. “I”m walking to the shop hop flip-flop”
What is thought blocking?
The abrupt halting of thought/speech
Psychosis (and all of its characteristics) can appear in (5)
- Schizophrenia
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Mood disorders
- Substance-induced psychosis
- Delirium induced psychosis
For Bipolar mood disorder when does psychosis tend to happen?
During episodes of mania
For unipolar depression when does psychosis tend to happen (even though it’s less common)?
During severe episodes
What substances can induce psychosis
Methamphetamine, hallucinogens
Give a common example of Delirium induced psychosis?
Sleep deprivation
Thought disorder specifically can also appear in (2)
- Dementia
- Neurological diseases
