Psychiatry Flashcards
Defense mechanism utilized by pts with paranoid personality disorder?
Projection
How do you treat anti-social personality disorder?
limit setting, psychotherapy, group therapy
Diagnosis (personality disorder): loner, lives in a basement, programs from home
Schizoid personality disorder
Defense mechanism utilized by patients with borderline personality disorder?
Splitting
Diagnosis (personality disorder): woman stays with abusive alcoholic husband for years
dependent personality disorder
Separate narcissistic from histrionic personality disorder?
Histrionic: woman, sexual
Narcissistic: man, demands the best
Diagnosis (personality disorder): a medical student spends hours editing their notes until there are only 20 words per line because “it’s the right way.” They aren’t able to get through all the relevant material in time for the exam so they fail.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Diagnosis (personality disorder): person who works the night shift toll booth
schizoid personality disorder
Diagnosis (personality disorder): Person who fears rejection and criticism, wants relationships, but does not pursue them
Avoidant personality disorder
Diagnosis (personality disorder): Person with thinking that borders on psychosis, bizarre thoughts, behavior, and dress
Schizotypal personality disorder
Diagnosis (personality disorder): Person who is unable to control rapid changes in mood, suicidal gestures, promiscuous
borderline personality disorder
The diagnosis is CLEARLY PTSD and the event happened 2 weeks ago; what’s the diagnosis?
Acute stress disorder (up to 1 mo after traumatic event)
A person has a fear of spiders but needs to do a photoshoot of spiders in the Amazon next month. What’s the best treatment?
Exposure therapy/CBT
How do you treat PTSD?
CBT with exposure + SSRI
Medical therapy to abort a panic attack?
Benzo
A 20 yo woman with crushing substernal chest pain, dyspnea, and diaphoresis. What’s the next step?
Rule out MI (ECG, troponin) though this is probably a panic attack
Treatment for anxiety of public speaking?
Beta blockers (eg propranolol, atenolol)
The diagnosis is CLEARLY PTSD and the event happened 8 weeks ago; what’s the diagnosis?
PTSD (more than 1 month of symptoms)
Substernal chest pain, dyspnea, diaphoresis, and sense of impending doom in a 23 yo woman: diagnosis?
Panic attack
The fear of avoidance of public areas, crowds, or public transit is __.
agoraphobia
A pilot develops a fear of flying, but wants to keep his job. What type of CBT does he need?
Desensitization
If you had to pick between therapy or medications for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, which do you go with?
Therapy (but SSRIs work too)
The patient is in a constant state of worry about most things on most days. Diagnosis?
GAD
What’s the treatment for generalized anxiety disorder?
Psychotherapy > SSRIs. Benzos are the wrong answer (can also use buspirone)