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Personality Disorders and Mood Disorders Flashcards

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A fixed way of interacting with the environment that causes distress or impaired function

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Personality disorder

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What are the 3 Cluster A (Weird) personality disorders?

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Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal

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What are the 4 cluster B (Wild) personality disorders?

-Dramatic erratic behavior

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Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic

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What are the 3 Cluster C (whacky) PD’s?

-Anxious, fearful behavior

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Avoidant, Obsessive-compulsive, and dependent

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Characterized as being distrustful of others, even friends/family

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Paranoid PD

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The hallmark ego defense of Paranoid PD is?

-Attributing unacceptable thoughts to others

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Projection

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Chooses social isolation

-More comfortable alone

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Schizoid PD

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Does not enjoy close relationships and has little/no interest in sexual experiences

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Schizoid PD

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Another characteristic of Schizoid PD is

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Flat affect

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Fear of social interactions and few close friends. Characterized by odd beliefs or magical thinking

-Superstitious

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Schizotypal PD

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Tend to believe that events and happenings are somehow related to them

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Schizotypal PD

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A key feature that distinguishes Schizotypal PD from schizophrenia and delusions is that Schizotypals are

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Open to challenges to beliefs

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Disregard for the rights of others

  • More common in men
  • Often break the law
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Antisocial PD

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If the child is under 18 years old, than we don’t call it antisocial PD, but rather

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Conduct disorder

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Characterized by unstable relationships and is more common in women than men

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Borderline PD

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Believe that all people are either very good or very bad

  • Can change daily
  • Fear of abandonment
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Borderline PD

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The major defense mechanism in borderline PD is

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Splitting

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Form of cognitive behavioral therapy that is the gold standard for borderline PD

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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

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Wants to be the center of attention

-Talks loudly, tells wild stories, and uses hand gestures

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Histrionic PD

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Often wears provocative clothing and engages in inappropriate sexually provocative behavior

-Very concerned with physical appearance

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Histrionic PD

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Has an inflated sense of self

  • Lacks empathy for others
  • Wants to hear they are great
  • Overreacts to criticism w/ anger/rage
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Narcissistic PD

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Avoids social interactions because they feel inadequate

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Avoidant PD

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Afraid that people won’t like them and struggle with intimate relationships

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Avoidant PD

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Different from schizoid because they want to socialize but can’t

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Avoidant PD

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Pre-occupied with order and control

-Inflexible at work or in relationships

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Obsessive-Compulsive PD

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Behaviors help to achieve goals

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Obsessive-compulsive PD

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OCPD patients obsessions/compulsions are used to achieve foals. This is classified as being

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Egosyntonic

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OCD patients on the other hand have obsessions/compulsions that are barriers to goals. This is called

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Egodystonic

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Characterized by clinginess and low self-confidence

-Struggle to care for themselves

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Dependent Personality Disorder

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Patients with Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD) have difficulty expressing an

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Characterized by abnormal emotional state such as sadness (depression) or extreme happiness (mania)

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Mood disorders

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What are three cardinal symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) besides the classic depressed mood, lost of interest, and feeling worthless?

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Appetite changes, weight loss/gain, and sleep disturbances

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Can present with altered sleep rhythms. REM starts quicker after sleep onset

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What is the effect of REM starting quicker after sleep onset in MDD?

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Decreased REM Latency

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Have increased total REM sleep but decreased slow-wave sleep

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From a psychomotor standpoint, MDD can present with either

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Psychomotor agitation or psychomotor retardation

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Excessive motor activity, often repetitious

-Feeling of inner tension

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Psychomotor agitation

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Slowing of movements, thinking, or speech

-Slower to answer questions

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Psychomotor depression

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Patients must meet at least 5 symptoms of SIG E CAPS to be diagnosed with

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Characterized by the core unique feature that patients are able to react to pleasurable stimuli, I.e. they feel better when good things happen

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Atypical Depression

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Are classified as eating and sleeping all the time

  • Increased appetite or weight gain
  • Increased sleep
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Atypical Depression

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Atypical depression is usually treated with

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SSRI’s (but could also see MAOI use)

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Abnormally elevated mood and energy level

  • Talking fast w/ pressured speech
  • Decreased need for sleep
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Manic Episode

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Two key buzzwords for mania are

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Disinhibition and Grandiosity

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Typical case is: change in mood to elevated state, not sleeping, altered behavior, and disruption of social functioning

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What is the acronym for mania

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DIG FAST

Distractibility
Irresponsibility
Grandiosity
Flight of Ideas
Agitation 
Less Sleep
Talking too much/pressured speech
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Have symptoms similar to those of mania but less severe

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A key feature of hypomania is little/no impairment in

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Functioning

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Shows inflated self esteem, but no delusions of grandeur

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Hypomania lasts for at least

51
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Hypomania shows no

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Psychotic symptoms

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Presents with the typical case of: change in mood to elevated state, continued social functioning, and resolves in a few weeks

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Hypomanic Episode

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Manic episodes =

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Hypomania and depression w/ no manic episodes =

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Most of the mood stabilizers for bipolar disorder are

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Anticonvulsants (valproic acid, carbamazepine, or lamotrigine)

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Always occur TOGETHER with mood symptoms in bipolar disorder

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Psychotic features

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Psychosis without mood symptoms =

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Schizoaffective Disorder

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Characterized by mild mania and mild depressive symptoms that does not meet criteria for hypomania or MDD

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Cyclothymic disorder

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With cyclothymic disorder, the symptoms come and go over at least

60
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Low grade form of depression that is less severe but more chronic

-Lasts for at least 2 years

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Persistent Depressive Disorder

61
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Seen in depression and bipolar disorder

-95% of successful attempts have psychiatric diagnosis

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Have more suicide attempts but are less successful

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Have fewer suicide attempts but are more successful

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The most common method of suicide is

65
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Normal response to loss of a loved one

-There are 5 stages

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Acute grief

66
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Grief that lasts longer than 6 months, interferes w/ functioning, and may lead to MDD

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Persistent Grief

67
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Depressed mood, insomnia, fatigue, and poor concentration that starts 2-3 days after delivery

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Postpartum Blues (up to 85% of women post delivery)

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The post partum blues resolves within

69
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Around 15% of women that give birth will experience

  • Lasts longer than two weeks
  • Treat with CBT and SSRIs
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Postpartum Depression

70
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Performed under general anesthesia

  • Essentially an electrically administered seizure
  • May cause amnesia
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Electroconvulsive therapy

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