Mental Disorders

Question 1

ICD 10

Answer 1

Categorize mental illness (WHO)

Question 2

Schizophrenia (brain disorder)

Answer 2

Genetics and environmental

Neurotransmitters: dopamine excess

Think: abnormal beliefs, delusions
Act: isolate, disorganized, flat faced

PRODROME: beginning stages
Go downhill, school work suffers, delusions, act differently

Question 3

Depression

Answer 3

Abnormalities in limbic system, hypothalamus, neuroplasticity is affected

Question 4

Anxiety disorders

Answer 4

General anxiety disorder, Panic attacks, phobias, OCD- interferes with daily life, PTSD- trigger

Question 5

Dissociative identity disorder

Answer 5

Distinct identities: mannerisms, physical changes, denial

Rare

Role playing

Question 6

Somatic symptom disorder

Answer 6

Mental disorder—>physical symptom

any symptom may or may not be medically explainable

Excessive worrying

Question 7

Conversion disorder

Answer 7

Mental disorder—>physical symptom

neurological symptom cannot explain symptoms

Speech, swallowing, etc.

Psychological Trauma

Question 8

Facticious disorder

Answer 8

Patient wants to be sick. Lie about being sick

Not for money, they legit just want to be in the sick role

Question 9

Personality disorders

Answer 9

10 types

A: odd, eccentric (paranoid, schizoid-emotionally detached, schizotypal- magical thinking)

B: dramatic, emotional (antisocial, borderline, histrionic-attention seeking)

C: anxious, fearful (avoidant, dependent,obsessive compulsive, PERSONALITY- orderliness, control

Question 10

OCD vs Obsessive compulsive personality disorder

Answer 10

OCD- you are obsessed with washing your hands etc

OCPD- you are focused on being orderly, in control, affection

Question 11

Substance use disorder

Answer 11

Affecting work, school, drugs improve them

Question 12

Parkinson’s disease

Answer 12

Substantia nigra (region of brain) is not as dark

Lewy bodies form

Question 13

Depression

Answer 13

1 outreach

Lack of energy, low focus, physical energy

Biological factors: genetic, low activity of prefrontal cortex, few receptors for serotonin

Psychological factors: learned helplessness

Sociocultural/environmental factors: being around sad people, empathy

Question 14

Bipolar disorder

Answer 14

Emotional highs to emotional lows

Periods of depression, then periods of mania

Bipolar 1: full mania
Bipolar 2: not full mania, hypomania

Question 15

Mania

Answer 15

High self esteem, optimism, poor decisions without consequences (spending too much, risky behaviors)