Mood Disorders

Question 1

What are the two components of anxiety

Answer 1

Fear and Stress

Question 2

What is mood

Answer 2

A persistent, subjective state, expressed in thought, emotion, behavior, and bodily functions

Question 3

Anxiety Disorders

Answer 3

Disorders that share features of excessive and persistent bouts of fear and anxiety and related behavioral disturbances

Question 4

Agrophobia

Answer 4

marked, or persistent fear or anxiety about two or more of the following situations accompanied by avoidance of the situations:

• using public transportation
• being in open spaces
• being in shops, theaters, cinemas
• standing in line or being in a crowd
• being outside of the home alone

Treat with simple exposure plus SSRIs

Question 5

The symptom cluster that defines aniety disorders embodies all of the following basic elements

Answer 5

• arousal
• negative expectation
• avoidance of the situation

Question 6

Panic Disorder definition

Answer 6

Characterized by recurrent panic attacks occurring over at least one month and involving anticipatory anxiety and avoiding situations

Question 7

Social Phobia

Answer 7

Fear with blushing, of anticipated humiliation or rejectipon

Question 8

PTSD involves what three cluster symptoms

Answer 8

Intrusion, arousal, avoidance

Question 9

Remember that mood disorder includes major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, dysthymic disorder, and cyclothymic disorder

Answer 9

ok

Question 10

Mania

Answer 10

Distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and increased activity or energy lasting at least 1 week.

Diagnosis requires hospitalization or at elast three of the following

Distraction
Irresponsibility
Grandiosity

Flight of ideas
Activity rise
Sleep need decreases
Talkativeness

Question 11

Bipolar 1 disorder is diagnosed if….

Answer 11

Person has one or more episodes of mania with recurrent depressive episodes

Question 12

Bipolar II disorder is diagnosed if…

Answer 12

person has recurrent depressive episodes and one or more episodes of hypomania

Question 13

Cyclothymic disorder

Answer 13

characterized by rapidly alternating mood states occurring simultaneously over a period of 2 years.

Question 14

What is panic disorder

Answer 14

characterized by recurrent panic attacks that occur over a period of at least one month

Question 15

Social phobia is what

Answer 15

fear (sometimes panic) that is often associated with blushing. Associated with anticipated humiliation or rejection by others in a social situation

Question 16

Simple phobia (like fear of public speaking) often treated how?

Answer 16

With Benzos

Question 17

Acute stress disorder

Answer 17

When immediate reaction to trauma involves the three symptom clusters associated with PTSD (Arousal, intrusion, avoidance) but lasts only up to one month

Question 18

Generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 18

a persistent, GREATER THAN 6 MOS , pattern of uncontrollable worries about health, safety, access to resources, etc…

Question 19

Major Depression criteria

Answer 19

SIG E CAPS

Sleep
Interest
Guilt
Energy
Concentration
Appetite
Psychomotor retardation
Suicidal Thoughts

Gotta have 5/9 and they must be around for over 2 weeks

Question 20

What is dysthymic disorder

Answer 20

Low mood for 2 or more years, never without symptoms.

Question 21

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder

Answer 21

week before onset of menses, pt suffers from a variety of symptoms that include irritability, anger, anxiety, depression, etc…

• symptoms must have lasted for the better part of a year and must be documented for at least 2 menstrual cycles in the past

Question 22

Cyclothymic disorder

Answer 22

Rapidly alternating mood states, occuring for at least two years but never meeting the criteria for major depression, mania or hypomania

Question 23

What the hell is bipolar One

Answer 23

Classic Manic depression. Diagnostic criteria: One or more episodes of mania with recurrent depressive episodes. Must have a distinct period of abnormally elevated mood lasting at least one week

Question 24

Bipolar II

Answer 24

Diagnosed when they have recurrent depressive episodes and one or more episodes of hypomania (periods that don’t meet the criteria for mania)

The up episodes are rarely as disruptive as in bipolar 1