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What is section 2 of the MHA

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Admission for assessment.
28 days
2 doctors and an AMHP

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What is section 3 of MHA

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Admission for treatment
6 months
Can be renewed
2 doctors and an AMHP

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What is section 4 of MHA

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Emergency treatment.
Prior to 2 or 3
72 hours
1 doctor 1 AMHP

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What is section 5(2)

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Detention fo a patient already in hospital.
72 hours
Doctor looking after patient

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What is section 5(4)

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Nurses holding powers

6 hours

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Section 135

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Force entry into house for MHA assessment. Requires magistrates court warrant and AMHP or doctor present

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Section 136

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Arrest someone in public place who is suffering from a mental health disorder

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Generalised anxiety disorder

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Generalised anxiety persistent but not restricted to any particular environmental settings

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Phobic disorders

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Group of disorders where anxiety is evoked only in well defined situations that are not currently dangerous

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Panic disorder

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Recurrent attacks of severe anxiety, which are unpredictable and not restricted to any particular situation

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Autonomic arousal symptoms

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Palpitations
Tachycardia
Sweating
Dry mouth

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Physical symptoms of neuroses (anxiety)

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Breathing difficulties, choking sensation, chest pain, nausea, hot flushes, numbness, tingling

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Mental state symptoms of neuroses

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Depersonalisation, fear of losing control, concentration difficulties

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Symptoms of tension present in neuroses

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Muscle aches/pains, restlessness/inability to relax

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Anxiety treatment

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Education then IAPT then CBT or SSRI then inpatient

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Which SSRI for anxiety

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Sertralline

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Define PTSD

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Delayed or protracted response to a stressful event of a threatening or catastrophic nature

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PTSD presentation

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Reliving of the stressor
Emotional blunting
Hypervigilence
Avoidance of things associated
Inability to recall aspects of the event
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19
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PTSD management

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Watchful waiting at first
Trauma focussed CBT
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing
Antidepressants (paroxetine)

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Acronym for depression symptoms

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DEAD SWAMP

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What are the symptoms of depression

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Depressed mood
Energy levels reduced
Anhedonia
Disturbed sleep

Suicidal ideation
Worthlessness
Appetite reduced
Mentation decreased
Pscyhomotor retardation
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Depression treatment

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Eductation, IAPT and medications, CBT, then inpatient MDT

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Examples of SNRI

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Duloxetine

Venlafaxine

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Examples of SSRIs

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Sertralline
Fluoxetine
Citalopram

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Examples of TCAs

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Amitriptylline, clomipramine

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Examples of NaSSA

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Mirtazapine

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27
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Examples of MAO inhibitors

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Phenelzine, moclobemide

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28
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What is the pharmacological treatment of depression

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SSRI then SNRI then TCA

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how do ssris work

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Increase free serotonin by blocking reuptake pumps, stopping serotonin from being recycled in the synapse

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30
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SSRI prescribing info

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Start low dose and titrate up, continue for 6 months after recovery

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31
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Sertralline fun fact

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Most cardio or neuroprotective

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32
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Fluoxetine fun fact

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Has a long half life

33
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How do SNRIs work

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Inhibit reuptake of serotonin and noradrenaline.

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Fun fact about venlafaxine

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Needs monitoring (ECG and BP) for cardiovascular side effects as can exacerbate arrythmias

35
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How do tricyclic antidepressants work

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Inhibit reuptake of serotonin and noradrenaline but act as anticholinergics

36
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Anitcholinergic side effects

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Dry mouth, blurred vision, urinary retention

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TCA side effects

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anticholinergic, overdose and arrythmias

38
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Mirtazepine mode of action

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Noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressant

39
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MAO inhibitors (phenelzine) special precautions

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Dietary as hypertensive criss with tyramine

40
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Bipolar 1 definition

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One or more manic episodes with or without a history of depressive episodes

41
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Bipolar 2 definition

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One or more depressive episodes with at least one hypomanic episode

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Acronym for mania symptoms

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I DIG FAST

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Mania symptoms

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Irratibility/elevated mood

Distractibility
Inhibition loss
Grandiosity

Flight of ideas
Activity increased
Sleep not needed
Talkative

44
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Name three mood stabilisers

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Lithium
Valproate
Lamotrigine

45
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Other treatments for bipolar

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Antipsychotics (haloperidol, olanzapine) and antidepressants (fluoxetine)

46
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Lithium fun fact

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Ebsteins phenomenon- cardiac anomaly in babies if mother has taken lithium

47
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Lamotrigine fun fact

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Can cause steven johnsons syndrome- hypersensitivity

48
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Valproate fun fact

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Terratogenic

49
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How does lithium work

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inhibits cAMP which inhibits Monoamines

50
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What is a safe level of lithium

51
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What bloods for someone on lithium

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Li, U and E, TFT, calcium

52
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Toxicity level of lithium

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> 1.5mmol/L

53
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Symptoms of lithium toxicity

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Tremor, anorexia, diarrhoea and vomitting, ataxia, dysarthria, delirium, fasiculations, hypotension, arrythmias, seizures, coma

54
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First rank symptoms of schizophrenia

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3rd person auditory halllucinations
Thought withdrawal, insertion and broadcast
Delusional perceptions
Delusions of control
Somatic passivity
55
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Positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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An excess or distortion of normal functioning e.g. delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder. Caused by overactivity of recepetors in the mesolimbic pathway

56
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Negative symptoms

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Decrease or loss of functioning e.g. blunting of affect, poverty of speech. Caused by underactivity of receptors in the mesocortical pathway

57
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Paranoid schizophrenia

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Paranoid delusions, auditory hallucinations and perceptual disturbances

58
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Catatonic schizophrenia

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Hyperkinesis or negativism

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Hebephrenic schizophrenia

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Fluctuating affect

60
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Residual schizophrenia

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Long term negative symptoms

61
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Simple schizophrenia

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Negative symptoms without psychotic symptoms

62
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First generation antipsychotics

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Chlorpromazine, haloperidol

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How do first generation antipscyhotics work

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Dopamine (D2) antagonists

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How do second generation antipsychotics work

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Dopamine (D2) antagonists and serotonin (5HT2A) antagonists.

65
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Antipsychotics side effects

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Extrapyrimidal- dyskinesia, parkinsonism, neuroleptic malignant syndrome

66
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Second generation antipsychotics

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Risperidone, olanzapine, clozapine

67
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Clozapine

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2nd gen for treatment resistnat. Blocks D1 and D4 and 5HT2A. Risk of agranulocytosis

68
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Metabolic antipscyhotic side effects

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Weight gain

Diabetes

69
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Anticholinergic side effects

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Dry mouth, blurred vision, difficulty passing urine, urinary retention, constipation

70
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Antiadrenergic side effects

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postural hypotension, tachycardia, sexual dysfunction

71
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Antihistminergic side effects

72
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Cardiovascular antipscyhotic side effects

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Prolonged QT interval

73
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Hormonal antipscyhotic side effects

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Increased plasma prolactin

74
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Describe anorexia

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Restricted diet
Excessive exercise
Induced vomiting and purging
Use of appetite suppressants
Diuretics
75
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Describe bulimia

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Repeated bouts of overeating

Pattern of overeating followed by vomiting or use of purgatives

76
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Signs of eating disorders

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Loss of muscle mass
Dry skin, brittle hair and nails
Russel sign
Lanugo hair

77
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What is russel sign

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Callused skin over interphalangeal joints

78
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What is lanugo

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Fine, downy body hair

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