Mental illness/ Anxiety disorder Flashcards
How common is mental illness?
1/3
and 1/3 consultations have mental health component.
What forms of treatment are available for mental illnesses?
Pyschotherapies, Social therapies, Medication.
What are the differences between mental and physical illness?
Pychaitry still diagnosed via symptom clusters and not pathology or aetiology
Mental health act means you can help people against their wishes - cannot do that for physical illness
What are some symptoms of anxiety?
Psychic anxiety: feeling of fear or dread
Palpitations Sweating Dry mouth Splanchnic vasoconstriction (butterflies) Tremor Paraesthesia (pins & needles) Depersonalisation Syncope
What are some obsessive complusive disorder symtoms?
Ego-dystonic thoughts
Repetitive, circular ruminations
May be bizarre and sound delusional
Insight maintained - aware that these are senseless thoughts
Unbidden and resisted
Resistance leads to anxiety
What are compulsions and examples?
Motor response to obsessional thoughts
Ritualistic, sterotypes and precise e.g. handwashing, symmetry etc
How can anxiety be classified?
Generalised anxiety disroder panic disorder Agoraphobia Simple phobia Social phobia
Management of Anxiety?
Course of cognitive behaviour therapy
Clomipramine - treating OCD
What is compulsion?
Compulsion is the experience of overwhelming urges to repeat a behaviour, even in the knowledge that it is harmful. It is present in numerous disorders.
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety disorder can be conceptualised as a self-perpetuating network of positive feedback loops, arising from normally adaptive responses.
High trait vs Low trait anxeity?
An individual with higher trait anxiety feels more threats in many situations than someone with low trait anxiety
E.g. a person may start revising and stressing about exams very early on due to being anxious about failing whereas those who cram will only feel anxious as threat become larger and closer.
