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Psychosis Flashcards

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What is psychosis?

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Set of symptoms where contact with reality is lost

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What is a key feature of psychosis?

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Lack of insight

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What are the the symptoms of psychosis?

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Hallucinations
Delusions
Thought interference
Passivity symptoms 
Formal thought disorder
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WHat is a hallucination?

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

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What are the types of hallucination?

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Auditory 
Visual 
Olfactory 
Gustatory 
Somatic
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What are the most common type of hallucination?

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Auditory

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What type of auditory hallucinations can you get?

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2nd person = talk to you

3rd person = talk about you

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What are command hallucination?

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Hallucinations telling you to do something

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

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

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What is thought echo?

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Hearing thoughts repeated outloud

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What is a pseudohallucination?

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

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What is a hypnopompic hallucination?

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Vivid hallucination while waking up

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What is a hypnogogic hallucination?

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Vivid hallucination while falling asleep

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What is a delusion?

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

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What are the types of delusion?

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Bizarre
Non-bizarre
Mood congruent
Persecutory
Grandiose
Erotomanic
Hypochondriacal 
Cotard's
Capgras
Fregoli
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What is a bizarre delusion?

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Delusion that could not be real

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What is a non-bizarre delusion?

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Delusion that could be real

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What is a mood congruent delusion?

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Consistent with manic/depressive state

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What is a persecutory delusion?

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Someone persecuting you

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What is a grandiose delusion?

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Feeling of having a special skill/being invincible

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What is an erotomanic delsusion?

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Someone is in love with you

22
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What is a hypochondriacal delusion?

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Belief that you have a disease

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What is a Cotard’s delusion?

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

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What is a Capgras delusion?

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Someone you know has been replaced by an imposter

25
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What is a Fregoli delusion?

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Different people are the same person in disguise

26
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What is an overvalued idea?

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

27
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What is an obsession?

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A belief that a person knows is irrational

28
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What is a delusion of reference?

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Something in the environment that ‘sends you a message’

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What is a delusional perception?

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A sudden delusional idea formed around a normal perception

30
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What are the types of thought interference?

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Insertion
Withdrawal
Broadcasting
*Blocking

31
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What is thought insertion?

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Thoughts put into brain

32
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What is thought withdrawal?

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Thoughts taken from the mind

33
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What is thought broadcasting?

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Thoughts are available to others

34
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What is thought blocking?

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A type of formal thought disorder where thoughts stop

35
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What are the passivity symptoms?

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Made action
Made affect
Made impulse

36
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What is made action?

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Actions controlled externally

37
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What is made affect?

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Emotions being controlled externally

38
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What is made impulse?

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Urges are being controlled externally

39
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What is formal thought disorder?

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Disorganised thoughts which manifest as speech which is hard to follow

40
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What are the types of formal thought disorder?

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Knights move thinking
Circumstantiality 
Derailment 
Thought blocking
Word salad
Neologisms
41
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What is knights move thinking?

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Sequence of unrelated ideas

42
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What is circumstantiality?

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Delay in getting to point

43
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What is derailment?

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Sequence of unrelated ideas

44
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What is word salad?

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Random wards

45
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What are neologisms?

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New made up words

46
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What are other symptoms of psychosis?

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Delusional mood

Catatonic symptoms

47
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What is delusional mood?

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Feeling of something impending

48
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What are catatonic symptoms?

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Stupor 
Excitement 
Mutism 
Negativism 
Posturing
Waxy flexibility 
Stereotyping 
Echolalia
Verbigeration
49
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What are organic causes of psychosis?

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Drug intoxication 
Delirium 
Dementia
Epilepsy 
Brain injury/tumour 
Huntington's disease 
Endocrine disturbances
50
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What are functional causes of psychosis?

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

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