Psychiatric/ Toxicology Flashcards

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Borderline personality disorder

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Condition where a person makes impulsive actions and has an unstable mood and chaotic relationships

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Conversion disorder

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Signs of physiological stress in physical ways. Mental or emotional crisis that converts to a physical problem. Symptoms can appear with no underlying physical cause and can not be controlled and typically affect movement or senses

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Delirium

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Disturbance in mental abilities that result in decreased awareness of the environment and confused thinking, onset is usually sudden within hours or a few days and can be traced to severe or chronic medical illness, meds, surgery, or drug/alcohol abuse

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Eating disorder

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Serious conditions where one is too preoccupied with food and weight that you can often focus on little else. Include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder

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Bulimia Nervosa

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Having episodes of bingeing and purging; typically eat late amounts of food in a short duration then rid yourself of the calories by excessive exercise or vomiting. Usually at a normal weight or a bit overweight

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Binge-eating disorder

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Having episodes of bingeing and purging; typically eat late amounts of food in a short duration then rid yourself of the calories by excessive exercise or vomiting. Usually at a normal weight or a bit overweight

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ECO- emergency containment order

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Called on someone who a person thinks is a threat to themselves or others; allows the patient to be held against their will until a physician can evaluate and determine whether or not they are a threat

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PTSD - post traumatic stress disorder

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Mental health condition triggered by a terrifying event. Symptoms include flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety, and uncontrollable thoughts about the event

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Schizoaffective disorder

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A mental condition that causes both a loss of contact with reality and mood problems

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Schizophrenia

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Mental disorder making it difficult to tel the difference between real and unreal experiences, to think logically, to have normal emotional responses, and to behave normally in social situations

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Auditory hallucination

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Hallucinations involving perceived sounds without auditory stimulus

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Court order petition

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If a physician considers a person a threat but they refuse to be admitted, the court will issue this to keep them in the hospital for a certain period of time

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Manic episode

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A state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal / energy levels

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MHE

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Mental health evaluation

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OCD- obsessive compulsive disorder

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Anxiety disorder characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to repetitive behaviors (compulsions)

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Panic disorder

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Anxiety disorder causing repetitive, unexpected attacks of intense fear

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Paranoia

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Thought process heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality/ delusion

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Petition

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Where someone feels another person requires psychiatric treatment against their will; “cert” is the physician certifying the patient should go to inpatient psychiatric center

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Psychosis

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Loss of contact with reality

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Racing thoughts

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The rapid thought patterns that often occur in manic disorders

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Substance abuse

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Maladaptive pattern of use of a substance that is not considered dependent

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Suicidal gesture

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Refers to suicide attempts or gestures and self harm where there is no actual intention to die

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Mood and Affect

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Anxious, depressed, angry, blunt, labile, inappropriate

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Speech

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Rapid and pressured, slurred, delayed, tangential (irrelevant, detailed, digressive), non-communicative

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Behavior

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Agitated, slowed, withdrawn, hallucinating, inattentive, combative, aggressive, hyperactive

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Thought content

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Paranoid, suicidal, homicidal, plan of homicide, plan of suicide

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Cognition and memory

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Impaired, abnormal recent memory, abnormal remote memory

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Judgement

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Impulsive, inappropriate

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Anti-psychotics

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Ability
Haldol
Lithium
Seroquel