Psychosis

Question 1

What is psychosis?

Answer 1

Set of symptoms where contact with reality is lost

Question 2

What is a key feature of psychosis?

Answer 2

Lack of insight

Question 3

What are the the symptoms of psychosis?

Answer 3

Hallucinations
Delusions
Thought interference
Passivity symptoms 
Formal thought disorder

Question 4

WHat is a hallucination?

Answer 4

Perception of a object/sound in the absence of a stimulus

Question 5

What are the types of hallucination?

Answer 5

Auditory 
Visual 
Olfactory 
Gustatory 
Somatic

Question 6

What are the most common type of hallucination?

Answer 6

Auditory

Question 7

What type of auditory hallucinations can you get?

Answer 7

2nd person = talk to you

3rd person = talk about you

Question 8

What are command hallucination?

Answer 8

Hallucinations telling you to do something

Question 9

What is a key question to ask if they have comman hallucinations?

Answer 9

Do they feel like they have to obey what the voices say

Question 10

What is thought echo?

Answer 10

Hearing thoughts repeated outloud

Question 11

What is a pseudohallucination?

Answer 11

See/hear soethign but do not think that it is real

Question 12

What is a hypnopompic hallucination?

Answer 12

Vivid hallucination while waking up

Question 13

What is a hypnogogic hallucination?

Answer 13

Vivid hallucination while falling asleep

Question 14

What is a delusion?

Answer 14

Fixed flase belief that is maintained despite contradictory evidence and is not explained by culture/belief

Question 15

What are the types of delusion?

Answer 15

Bizarre
Non-bizarre
Mood congruent
Persecutory
Grandiose
Erotomanic
Hypochondriacal 
Cotard's
Capgras
Fregoli

Question 16

What is a bizarre delusion?

Answer 16

Delusion that could not be real

Question 17

What is a non-bizarre delusion?

Answer 17

Delusion that could be real

Question 18

What is a mood congruent delusion?

Answer 18

Consistent with manic/depressive state

Question 19

What is a persecutory delusion?

Answer 19

Someone persecuting you

Question 20

What is a grandiose delusion?

Answer 20

Feeling of having a special skill/being invincible

Question 21

What is an erotomanic delsusion?

Answer 21

Someone is in love with you

Question 22

What is a hypochondriacal delusion?

Answer 22

Belief that you have a disease

Question 23

What is a Cotard’s delusion?

Answer 23

Belief that you/your body is dead/doesn’t exist

Question 24

What is a Capgras delusion?

Answer 24

Someone you know has been replaced by an imposter

Question 25

What is a Fregoli delusion?

Answer 25

Different people are the same person in disguise

Question 26

What is an overvalued idea?

Answer 26

A belief that does not meet the threshold for a delusion but which a person pursues past the point of reason?

Question 27

What is an obsession?

Answer 27

A belief that a person knows is irrational

Question 28

What is a delusion of reference?

Answer 28

Something in the environment that 'sends you a message'

Question 29

What is a delusional perception?

Answer 29

A sudden delusional idea formed around a normal perception

Question 30

What are the types of thought interference?

Answer 30

Insertion Withdrawal Broadcasting *Blocking

Question 31

What is thought insertion?

Answer 31

Thoughts put into brain

Question 32

What is thought withdrawal?

Answer 32

Thoughts taken from the mind

Question 33

What is thought broadcasting?

Answer 33

Thoughts are available to others

Question 34

What is thought blocking?

Answer 34

A type of formal thought disorder where thoughts stop

Question 35

What are the passivity symptoms?

Answer 35

Made action Made affect Made impulse

Question 36

What is made action?

Answer 36

Actions controlled externally

Question 37

What is made affect?

Answer 37

Emotions being controlled externally

Question 38

What is made impulse?

Answer 38

Urges are being controlled externally

Question 39

What is formal thought disorder?

Answer 39

Disorganised thoughts which manifest as speech which is hard to follow

Question 40

What are the types of formal thought disorder?

Answer 40

``` Knights move thinking Circumstantiality Derailment Thought blocking Word salad Neologisms ```

Question 41

What is knights move thinking?

Answer 41

Sequence of unrelated ideas

Question 42

What is circumstantiality?

Answer 42

Delay in getting to point

Question 43

What is derailment?

Answer 43

Sequence of unrelated ideas

Question 44

What is word salad?

Answer 44

Random wards

Question 45

What are neologisms?

Answer 45

New made up words

Question 46

What are other symptoms of psychosis?

Answer 46

Delusional mood | Catatonic symptoms

Question 47

What is delusional mood?

Answer 47

Feeling of something impending

Question 48

What are catatonic symptoms?

Answer 48

``` Stupor Excitement Mutism Negativism Posturing Waxy flexibility Stereotyping Echolalia Verbigeration ```

Question 49

What are organic causes of psychosis?

Answer 49

``` Drug intoxication Delirium Dementia Epilepsy Brain injury/tumour Huntington's disease Endocrine disturbances ```

Question 50

What are functional causes of psychosis?

Answer 50

``` Schizophrenia Schizoaffective disorder Drug induces psychosis Acute psychotic episode Depression/mania + psychotic symptoms ```