Severe Mental Health Disorders

Question 1

d: Psychomotor agitation

Answer 1

feeling physically restless

Question 2

d: Pressure of speech

Answer 2

People monologuing and just speaking a stream of consciousness when they’re in a conversation

Question 3

what is hypomania?

Answer 3

Hypomania is a milder version of mania that typically lasts for a shorter period

Question 4

what is mania?

Answer 4

Mania is a condition in which you have a period of abnormally elevated, extreme changes in your mood or emotions, energy level or activity level.

Question 5

When questioned about experiences of symptoms, how many people qualified for hypomania?

Answer 5

35% of the people in the study did show symptoms for hypomania

Question 6

How common is mania over a lifetime?

Answer 6

4-9% over a lifetime

Question 7

How prevalent is mania (bipolar)?in the UK

Answer 7

0.5-1.5%

Question 8

What % of people with bipolar will commit suicide?

Answer 8

20%

Question 9

What is Bipolar 1?

Answer 9

AT least one manic episode – major depressive episodes are typical but not necessary for diagnosis

Question 10

What is bipolar 2?

Answer 10

At least one hypomanic episode and one major depressive episode.

Question 11

What is psychosis?

Answer 11

Psychosis is a medical term used to describe a number of unusual experiences involving “loss of contact with reality” and significant changes in:
- The person’s ability to think clearly
- Telling the difference between “reality” and inner experiences
- Changes in the way people behave

Question 12

What are positive symptoms?

Answer 12

defined by presence of states and experiences that most individuals do not normally experience

Question 13

what are negative symptoms?

Answer 13

defined by absence of emotional responses, thought processes and behaviours that are usual in most individuals (deficits)

Question 14

d: thought disorder

Answer 14

incomprehensive thought patterns as evidenced by disorganised speech

Question 15

d: alogia

Answer 15

poverty of speech/ not speaking at all

Question 16

d: avolition

Answer 16

lack of motivation

Question 17

blunted, flat or reduced affect:

Answer 17

inability to express appropriate emotions

Question 18

d: paranoid ideation

Answer 18

when thinking is dominated by suspicious, persecutory, or grandiose content such as being spied on, followed, secretly tested or plotted against, or suspecting that one’s spouse is being unfaithful

Question 19

how common is paranoid ideation?

Answer 19

30%

Question 20

What is the range in population %s for hearing voices?

Answer 20

0.6% to 84%, but roughly 0.5% to 1% have a diagnosis

Question 21

Lifeime risk of suicide for schizophrenics

Answer 21

5 - 10%

Question 22

Which psychological theory is associated with hallucinations?

Answer 22

Source monitoring biases (ability to distinguish between internal and external cognitive events).

Question 23

Which psychological theories is associated with delusions/paranoia?

Answer 23

Theory of Mind difficulties (not understanding others’ mental states), jumping to conclusion biases (making overconfident conclusion based on little evidence)

Attributional style difficulties (external, personalised attributions for negative events)

Question 24

Which psychological theory is associated with Psychosocial symptoms ?

Answer 24

Trauma - stressful life events, social inequality etc

Question 25

Which psychological theories is associated with distress?

Answer 25

Negative triad about the self and the world, often arising from a background of victimisation and powerlessness

Negative, threatening appraisals of psychotic experiences (“Hearing voices means that I am going nuts!”) (Morrison et al., 2001)

Question 26

d: personality

Answer 26

the collection of enduring behavioural and psychological traits that distinguish human beings.

Question 27

What do personality disorders focus on problems with?

Answer 27

1) Expression and self-regulation of distressing emotions
2) Interpersonal relationships

Question 28

What is the prevalence of difficulties associated with personality disorders in the UK?

Answer 28

4-5%