Psychotherapeutic agents Flashcards
How can psychiatric disorders be classified?
- Organic
- Functional
What is an organic illness?
Congenital or caused by an injury or disease
What is a functional disorder?
partially of psychogenic origin, with or without any evidence (yet) of structural or biochemical abnormality.
What are the categories of functional disorders?
- Psychoses
- Neuroses
- Psychophysiologic
- Personality disorders
What are the characteristics of a person with a pyschiatric illness?
- Appearance (bizarre dress/ neglected)
- Unusual speech (form, content, volume & rate)
- Thought disorders (talk senselessly)
- Hallucinations
- Delusions (false beliefs)
- Obsessions and compulsions
Name physchoses disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Depression
What is Schizophrenia?
Extensive disturbance of the patients personality functions with loss of perception of reality.
- Develops in late teens and early adults
- With treatment bizarre ideas can be overcome but not returned to normal
What are the symptoms of depression?
- Early morning wakening
- Tearfulness
- Loss of energy
- Bingeing or loss of appetite
- Feeling disconnected from the world
- Becoming withdrawn and apathetic
- Unexplained aches and pains
- Feeling worthless
- Poor concentration
- Difficulty making decisions
- Loss of interest in sex
Describe the prevalence of depression?
- Most common serious mental illness
- About 5% of population suffer from a depressive episode at some stage of their life
- Can occur at any age
- Most common betwen 35-55 for women and 10 years later for men
- 1/6 women seek hep and 1/9 men do.
Describe the prevalence of depression?
- Most common serious mental illness
- About 5% of population suffer from a depressive episode at some stage of their life
- Can occur at any age
- Most common between 35-55 for women and 10 years later for men
- 1/6 women seek hep and 1/9 men do.
How can DHT help someone recover from depression?
- Plenty of support: reassurance from friends & family members is vital
- Antidepressants: these drugs restore appetite, energy & sleep patterns. However can cause dizziness or drowsiness & become addictive
- Psychotherapy: helpful whose personalities or life experiences are main cause of depression.
What are the warning signs of suicide?
- Sudden, unexplained lifting of mood
- Suicide by friend or relative
- Abuse of alcohol & drugs
- Previous attempt of suicide
- Loss of partner
- Lack of social support
Name the types of neuroses functional disorders:
Anxiety, phobias & compulsiveness
Describe how anxiety becomes a disorder:
Anxiety becomes an illness when the feeling of unease and fear of impending doom surfaces without any obvious cause.
Describe symptoms of a panic attack:
- Palpitations & chest tightness
- Hyperventilating
- Trembling
- Sweaty palms
