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DSM

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Diagnostic statistical manual of mental illness
Published 2013
Lists symptoms of mental illness not cause

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What causes Mental illness

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Deviant, Distressful Dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings or behaviors

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Anxiety disorders

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Disorders whose major symptom is anxiety
GAD
OCD

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Anxiety

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Generalized feeling of a apprehension and pending disaster

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Signs of anxiety disorder

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Palm sweat
Throat closes
Breathing is a Erratic
Heart pounds
Hands tremble
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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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2/3 are women

  • Symptoms must occur for 6 months
  • Must include chronic anxiety not associated with a specific situation/object
  • trouble sleeping, Hypervigilant/tense, difficulty concentrating and irritable most of the time
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Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

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An anxiety disorder characterized by both repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and ritualized repetitive behavior (complusion)
* no longer listed as anxiety disorder
-thought to result from faulty attempt to resolve anxiety, guilt or insecurity
-can be result of a detect in the amount of
some brain chemicals

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OCD compulsions (diff ways)

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Hoarders
Counters
Checkers
Cleaners

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Panic Disorders

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Frequent and overwhelmed attacks of anxiety not associated with specific objects or events

  • Physical/chemically wrong
  • The first panic is not attached to anything specific
  • panic eventually spreads & person limits their activities for fear of having an attack
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Phobic disorder

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Person becomes disabled and overwhelmed by fear in the presence of object/event

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Types of phobia

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Specific phobia

Agoraphobia

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Specific phobia

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Centers on particular object

Faced with the object of fear the person becomes extremely anxious

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Agoraphobia

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The fear of leaving familiar environment aka Home

Fear of open places

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Symptoms of panic disorder

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Heart palpitations
 Shortness of breath
Choking sensations
Trembling
Dizzyness
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Post traumatic stress disorder

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Condition checkered by horrifying event

Unwanted, distressing memories of the event

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4 symptoms of depression

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Not functioning
Lack of appetite
Depressed moods

Long period of being sad/happy
Loss of interest

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Mood disorder

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Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extreme

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Bipolar

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Individual goes from states of mania to depressive states

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Symptoms of mania

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-mood changes
•long period feeling high or overly happy
•extreme irritability
-behavioral change
•talk fast
•restless/little sleep
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Dysthymic disorder

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Mild but longterm (chronic) form of depression

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Symptoms of dysthymia

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Last at least 2 years of longer

Sadness/feeling down
Irritability
Low self esteem

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Major depression

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Signs must last two or more weeks

Not caused by drugs or medical condition

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Depression statistics

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Phobia is more common but depression is number one reason for mental health care
Women suffer more often

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Dissociative disorder

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Disorder in which memory of a part of one’s life become disconnected

  • amnesia
  • fugue
  • dis identity dis
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Amnesia

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Dissociative disorder in which traumatic events seem to disappear for memory

  • events are still in person but cut off from consciousness
  • selective forgetting: forgetting only things that are very Traumatic
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Fugue

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Dissociative disorder in which person forgets his current life and starts new one
More men than women
Caused by stressful events

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Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

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Divide yourself into multiple personalities
Result of trauma
Not Schizophrenics

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Somatoform disorder

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Suffers from some form of physical illness when theres NO REAL CAUSE for illness to occur

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2 types of somatoform

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Hypochondrias

Conversion disorder

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Hypochondrias

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Somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease
Many see doctors for diagnosis

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Conversion disorder

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Anxiety appears converted to a physical symptom that has no reasonable neurological basis

  • loss of eyesight
  • paralysis
  • inability to swallow
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Schizophrenia

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Not in touch w reality
1 in 100
Appear suddenly or gradually
Shows during young adulthood
Men earlier, slight more often and severe
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Symptoms of schizophrenia

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Speak in disorganized n deluded ways
Hallucinations 
Delusions
Inappropriate emotions
Flat affect
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Types of schizophrenia

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Paranoid: believe A person is plotting against him or family member
Catatonic: bizarre movements
Undifferentiated: when symptoms don’t fit other subtypes

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Possible causes of schizo

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Dopamine overactivity
Abnormal brain activity +anatomy
Prenatal environment
Genetics

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Psychoanalysis

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Focus on a patient’s unconscious anxiety and/or conflict by:
•Dream interpretation
•Free Association
-->Saying whatever comes to mind
•“Talk Therapy”
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Cognitive Therapy

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  • Talk therapy which helps a patient change irrational, negative thoughts with rational, positive ones
  • “Use reason to control emotions”
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Group Therapy

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  • Therapy which more than one person at a time may be treated
  • Family Therapy
  • Marital Therapy
  • Self Help groups such as AA
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Biomedical

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  • Drug Therapy- Use of medicine to relieve psychological symptoms
  • Mood tranquilizers
  • Anti-depressants
  • Anti-anxiety drugs
  • Mood Swing drugs

Electroconvulsive Therapy- electrical shock is sent through the brain to try to reduce symptoms

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personality disorders:

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psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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Symptoms of antisocial personality disorder

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Lack of conscious for wrongdoing
Aggressive
•Superficial charm and high intelligence
●Poise, rationality, absence of neurotic anxiety
●Lack of a sense of personal responsibility
●Untruthfulness, insincerity, callousness, manipulativeness
●Antisocial behavior without regret or shame
●Poor judgment and failure to learn form experience
●Inability to establish lasting, close relationships with others
●Lack of insight into personal motivations

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Symptoms of borderline personality disorder

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Chronic instability in emotions, self-image, and relationships
●Moods are uncontrollable, intense, and fluctuate quickly
•afraid of abandonment
Seeks reassurance and definition from others
●Characterized by self-destructiveness

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Which sex suffers more of borderline personality disorder

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Women

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Psychologist vs psychiatrist

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Psychiatrists prescribe medicine

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Symptoms of PTSD

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  • nightmares
  • flashbacks
  • negative feelings about self n others
  • feelin emotionally numb
  • irritability/agressiveness
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Behavioral Therapy

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  • Use the principles of learning to “unlearn” undesired behavior
  • Systematic Desensitization- increases the patient’s anxiety and gradually counters it with relaxation
  • Averse Conditioning- unpleasantness is associated with acts a patient wants to avoid
  • Token economy- rewards for desired acts are accumulated through tokens
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Humanistic Therapy

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  • Emphasize the patient’s self worth and empower him/her to heal themselves with some assistance
  • “Person is his or her own therapist”

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