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Mental health Flashcards

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Pre 1960

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  • isolation, lobotomies, electroconvulsive shock therapy
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Post 1960

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  • drugs, therapy, de-institutionalization
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1955

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  • Spear’s chiropractic hospital very successful with mental disease
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Theory of reasoned action

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perception + family/friends + beliefs = action

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Communication is based on

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speech, eye contact, body language, body contact, and language

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Funneling is

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combination of open ended and direct questions

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Hostility has a strong connection to

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chronic heart disease

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Non-reversible deterioration of cognition and behavior

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Dementia

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Often reversible acute confusion that may fluctuate

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Delirium

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Euthymic =

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good/normal

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Bipolar disease

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Mania (necessary) and melancholia mood swings

  • usually appears at 20 years of age
  • potato chip disease = elevated obesity, HTN, DM, hyperlipidemia
  • Tx: lithium, drug stabilizers, mood charting
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Cyclothymic

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  • causes hypomanic & mild depressive episodes
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Unipolar disease

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  • most common affect disorder (mood disorder)
  • 50% are misdiagnosed/unrecognized, self inflicted injureis
  • high incidence of: alzheimers, DM, parkinsons, heart, stroke, cancer, HIV, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain
  • medications contribute: blood pressure, hormones, and anti-biotics
  • more prominent in females, reoccurence is common
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Major depression is _ weeks of at least _ of the following symptoms:

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  • 2 weeks of 4 symptoms from the following list:
  • – loss of appetite
  • – insomnia
  • – agitation
  • – worthlessness
  • – suicidal
  • – poor concentration
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Dysthymia

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  • similar to depression

- diagnosis is 2 years of at least 3 symptoms from the list of depression symptoms

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Treatment for both depression and dysthymia:

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  • personal therapy
  • drugs
  • ECT
  • nutrition
  • B6 = metabolizes tryptophan to serotonin
  • magnesium
  • vitamin D
  • calcium
  • omega 3
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Seasonal Affect Disorder

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Tx: light, exercise, comfort foods

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Psychotic

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  • schizophrenia: young adults are more commonly affected
  • reality is altered, episodic, perception is altered, hallucinations
  • alogia: poverty of speech
  • avolition: lack of purposeful action or motivation
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Schizophrenic type: disorganized

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  • older term was hebephrenic

- unpredictable mood shifts

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Schizophrenic type: catatonic

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  • rigid posture
  • expressions flat affect (no expression for emotions)
  • masked facies
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Schizophrenic type: paranoid

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  • delusions of persecution
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Schizophrenic type: schizophreniform

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  • adolescent/young adult onset
  • contradictory messages
  • short event (6 months)
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Schizophrenic type: paraphrenia

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  • geriatric
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Psychopath

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  • old term
  • no regard for self or others
  • abnormal lack of empathy
  • verbal therapy not effective**
  • strong amoral conduct masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal
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Sociopath/ antisocial

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  • believes they are superior,
  • grandiose (imposing)
  • lack remorse
  • shallow emotions
  • need stimulation
  • pathological liar
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Dissociative

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  • multiple personalities
  • childhood trauma
  • can be a short term event
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Somatoform disorder

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  • physical complaint with no organic pathology

- entirely unconscious process

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Dysmorphic disorder

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  • convinced of a body flaw and preoccupied with it
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Food disorders (3)

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  • anorexia nervosa: fear of fat
  • Bulimia: binge and purge (Barrett’s)
  • pica
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Conversion disorder

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psychic conflict causing physical symptoms

- single physical impairment caused by emotional event

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Hypochondriac

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  • preoccupation with personal health or contracting illness
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Somatization disorder

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  • aka Briquet’s syndrome
  • females under 30 (starts in adolescence)
  • multiple systems
  • confusing
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Somatoform pain disorder

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  • underlying emotional process

- pain often allows escape from responsibility

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Morgellon’s disease

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Delusional parasitosis

- believes they are invaded by insects, parasites, hair, etc.

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Munchausen Syndrome

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  • individual exaggerates personal complaints
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Munchausen by proxy

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  • caregiver inflicts harm on individual they are caring for
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General anxiety disorder

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  • constant excessive fear, hypervigilant
  • sx include: twitching, sweating, dry mouth, headache. stomach ache, urinary frequency
  • condition causes: heart failure, head injury, hormone imbalance, endocrine disease, pneumonia, COPD
  • drug causes: cannabis, analgesics, caffeine, amphetamines
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Panic attacks

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  • occur with GAD, phobias, OCD, PTSD
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Two types of phobias:

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  • social: provoked by people or performance issues

- specific: provoked by object or situation

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Repetitive thoughts

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obsession

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Repetitive actions

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compulsion

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PTSD

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  • fear and anxiety following an emotional event
  • flashbakcs, sleep disorders common
  • fibromyalgia, MFS, restless leg syndrome
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Neurosis

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in reality most of the time, hard on themselves

  • low self esteem
  • defense mechanisms work overtime
  • TX: support and enlighten
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Masochist

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likes abuse

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Sadist

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inflicts abuse

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Voyeur

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enjoys watching

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Exhibitionist

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enjoys showing

NBS Boards 2 Associated Clinical Science (17 decks)

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