Psycho Flashcards
Specific phobia ttt
Talking with a mental health professional can help you manage your specific phobia. Exposure therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy are the most effective treatments. Exposure therapy focuses on changing your response to the object or situation that you fear.
Postpartum dep on treatment, best thing to add
Include the family in treatment
Best management for binge eating disorder
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Preservation psychology
Perseveration usually occurs in association with disturbance of memory and is a sign of organic brain disease, perhaps the only pathognomonic sign in psychiatry. Perseveration is defined as a response that was appropriate to a first stimulus being given inappropriately to a second, different stimulus.
continuation of something (such as an activity or thought) usually to an extreme degree or beyond a desired point specifically, psychology : the continual involuntary repetition of a thought or behavior Perseveration is said to occur when the patient continues to give the answer to the previous question in response
Thought insertion
Thought insertion’ in schizophrenia involves somehow experiencing one’s own thoughts as someone else’s. Some philosophers try to make sense of this by distinguishing between ownership and agency: one still experiences oneself as the owner of an inserted thought but attributes it to another agency.
Thought insertion is defined by the ICD-10 as the delusion that one’s thoughts are not one’s own, but rather belong to someone else and have been inserted into one’s mind. The person experiencing thought insertion will not necessarily know where the thought is coming from, but makes a distinction between their own thoughts and those inserted into their minds. However, patients do not experience all thoughts as inserted; only certain ones, normally following a similar content or pattern. A person with this delusional belief is convinced of the veracity of their beliefs and is unwilling to accept such diagnosis
Losing association
Associative looseness, also known as looseness of association or derailment, refers to a thought-process disorder characterized by disorganized speech due to a lack of connection between ideas.
This can manifest in speech as an individual moving quickly from one idea to an unrelated one in the same sentence, expressing a random jumble of words and phrases. An example of loose association would be: “I like to dance; my feet are wet.”
Flight of idea
Flight of ideas occurs when someone talks quickly and erratically, jumping rapidly between ideas and thoughts. Flight of ideas is not a medical condition in itself. It is a symptom that may occur as part of mania, psychosis, and some neurodevelopmental conditions.
A person experiencing flight of ideas, for example, might deliver a 10-minute monologue during which he or she jumps from talking about childhood, to a favorite advertisement, to a moment of distorted body image, to political ideology, concluding with a rant about his or her favorite flower
ssri percentage of sexual dysfunction
Overall, 73% of the SSRI-treated clients reported adverse sexual side effects; in contrast, to 14% of clients treated with bupropion. The three SSRIs, to an equal degree, significantly decreased libido, arousal, duration of orgasm, and intensity of orgasm below levels experienced pre-morbidly
Functional aphonia
Functional Aphonia is a condition that is of neurology or psychiatry in origin. It refers to the loss of voice or inability to produce voice in absence of organic pathology. It has a relatively sudden onset
Psychogenic voice disorders have no apparent physical cause. The voice can sound strained, raspy or very soft. Complete loss of the voice is possible. Psychological difficulties usually underlie this category of voice disorders
Which antidepressant should not be used in patients with a history of seizures?
Four antidepressants are not recommended for patients with epilepsy, i.e.: amoxapine, bupropion, clomipramine and maprotiline
Somatic delusion
People with somatic delusions are completely convinced there is something medically, physically, or biologically wrong with them, and their belief is so strong and sincere they will experience a range of “symptoms” that verify their worst fears.
Conversion disorder
Conversion disorder (also known as functional neurological system disorder) is a condition in which a person experiences physical and sensory problems, such as paralysis, numbness, blindness, deafness or seizures, with no underlying neurologic pathology
Types of bipolar dis
- BIPOLAR 1: This type of bipolar disorder is characterized by manic episodes, with or without depression symptoms. If you have this type of bipolar, your manic episodes will last a week or longer. Your mania may be so bad that it requires you to be hospitalized to ease the symptoms. Although you don’t have to have depression to be diagnosed with bipolar 1, it may also present with depression that lasts over two weeks.
- Bipolar 2 disorder is characterized by having both manic and depressive episodes. The mania you experience with this type is usually less severe than the mania you’d experience in bipolar 1 — hence the name hypomania. When you have bipolar 2, you experience a major depressive episode either before or after you’ve had a manic break.
- In cyclothymic disorder, you experience both manic and depressive episodes for two years or longer. For children, the same is true except they have to experience both for at least a year to be diagnosed. The mania and depression in this disorder are usually less severe than that of bipolar 1 or bipolar 2. Cyclothymic disorder causes unstable moods, meaning you may have periods of normalcy mixed with mania and depression.
- OTHER TYPES
You may experience symptoms that don’t fit into the other three bipolar categories. If this is the case, you’re considered type 4, or “other.” This type of bipolar may be caused by factors in your life that can include drugs, alcohol, or underlying medical conditions.
Which subtype of bipolar has the best response to lithium
Classic mania, 2
Normal bereavement case
Normal (or uncomplicated) grief has no timeline and encompasses a range of feelings and behaviours common after loss such as bodily distress, guilt, hostility, preoccupation with the image of the deceased, and the inability to function as one had before the loss.
There is no set length or duration for grief, and it may come and go in waves. However, according to 2020 research , people who experience common grief may experience improvements in symptoms after about 6 months, but the symptoms largely resolve in about 1 to 2 years.
