Psychosis

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anhedonia

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inability to experience or even imagine any pleasant emotions

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grandiose delusions

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exaggerated feelings of importance or worth, may assume a famous person’s identity

when i speak, presidents and kings listen

relationship with famous person or identity of famous person

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referential delusions

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events within the environment referred by the psychotic person to themselves

someone is trying to get a message to me through the articles in the magazine -OR-

I must break the code to receive the message -OR-

can also be called ideas of reference

laughing or giggling with each other and the person thinks that you are doing it to them

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Persecutory delusions:

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BELIEF OF BEING DONE WRONG

plotted against, poisoned, cheated, followed

if the FBI finds me here, I will never get out alive

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Religious delusions

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BELIEF OF A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A HIGHIER POWER OR ARE JESUS, GOD

kneels to pray in front of water fountain

prays during group therapy and during other group activities

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echopraxia

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purposelessly imitates movements made by others

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mutism

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does not talk

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hallucinations

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stops talking in midsentence, tilts head to side, and listens

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word salad

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get by for anyone just to answer fortune cookies

group of words that appear to be put together randomly

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associative looseness

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I’m going to the circus. Jesus is God. the police are playing for keeps.

speech in which ideas shift from one unrelated subject to another

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inappropriate effect

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laughs when told that his or her mother has just died

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paranoia

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refuses to eat food that comes on tray stating, they are trying to poison me

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magical thinking

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we cant close the drapes, for if we do, the sun won’t shine

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neologism

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when i get out of the hospital In going to buy me a sprongle

newly invented words

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clang association

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test, test, this is a test. I do not jest, we get no rest

form of rhyming

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waxy flexibility

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keep arm in position the nurse left it after taking the blood pressure and assumed the position for hours

allows body parts to be placed in bizarre or uncomfortable positions. usually associated with catatonia

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regression

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in response to stressful situation, begins to suck thumb and soils clothing

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what causes schizophrenia?

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no one thing can cause it, may be multiple things

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is there a cure for schizophrenia?

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no

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most proven theory for cause of schizophrenia

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genetics–1st degree relative

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when are you usually dx’d?

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young adulthood, or late adolescense bc of stress in life

usually dx’d in the persons prime of their life

Question 22

is it usually dx’d in children

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no, bc you want to give them time to grow out of their behaviors and once you have the dx you ALWAYS have the dx

Question 23

things that can cause schizophrenia:

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genetics
chemical imbalance
viral infections
brain tumors
thyroid disease
poor mother child relationship
dysfunctional family
child abuse
stressful life, job
cannabis use

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the younger the onset

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the poorer the outcome

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do you ever stop having symptoms with schizophrenia?

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not usually. you will have periods of psychosis with some decrease in s/s but no real recovery

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schizophrenia is considered episodic even though a chronic illness

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brief psychotic

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sudden onset of symptoms must last one day but no longer than 1 month then go back to normal functioning

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what is catatonic?

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statue, don't move, decreased motor behavior, don't talk, nothing happens when you talk to them add this to your nursing interventions: you do everything for this pt. total care. feed them, dress them, bathe them, talk to them normal

Question 29

paranoid

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suscipicious, have a lot of auditory hallucinations, like she's gonna hurt you never whisper or laugh in front of client, might loose trust

Question 30

what are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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delusions--can include persucatory, referential, grandiose, somatic, and ertomanic (celebrity is in love with them) hallucinations --can include auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory and gustatory disorganized thinking, speech and behavior -- can include loose association, tangentiality, circumstantiality, word salad, neolgosisms, clang associations, and echolalia flight of ideas ideas of reference alterations in speech

Question 31

what is flight of ideas

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talking about one thing, then swap to another, and they don't go together

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what is ideas of reference?

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false belief. its true to them. not gonna change their mind, don't argue with them

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what is flat affect?

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no emotions whatsoever

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apathy

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showing no feelings

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alogia

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absence of speech

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avolition

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lack of motivation

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anhedonia

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lack of pleasure, nothing brings you happiness

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catatonia

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statue, no movement, no speaking

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which symptoms are easy to treat?

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positive

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which symptoms are hard to treat even with the newest meds?

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negative

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somatic delusion

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believe that they have something medically wrong with them but nothing is medically wrong

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circumstantiality

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delays in reaching the point of the story

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tangentiality

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veering away from topic. can't focus and maintain the conversation

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perseveration

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repeats the same word over and over again no matter the question

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anergia

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defieciency of energy

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echolalia

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repeats words or phrases spoken by others. like a toddler

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what are your antipsychotic meds end in?

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zine, zole, xene, zide, pine, dols, dones

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Question 49

side effects of antipsychotics

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Question 50

Major s/e of long term use of antipsychotics can lead to?

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tardive dyskinesia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome

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what are some s/s of tardive dyskinesia

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you look retarded

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what are some s/s of EPS

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neuroleptic malignant syndrome s/s

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Question 55

neuroleptic malignant syndrome s/s

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