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W3_Mood Disorders Flashcards

Bipolar, AD, OCD

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What is bipolar disorder?

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Bipolar disorder (manic depression) is a treatable medical illness marked by extreme changes in mood, thought, energy, and behaviour.

Bipolar disorder
a person’s mood can alternate between the “poles” mania (highs) and depression (lows).

This change in mood or “mood swing” can last for hours, days, weeks or even months

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What are the different types of bipolar disorder?

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**Bipolar l **Disorder
A distinct period of severe manic episode for at least a week with rapid shift of mood.

Bipolar ll Disorder
at least 1 hypomanic episode but has not had a full manic episode.

Cyclothmyia
numerous periods with manic and depressive symptoms not severe enough to meet criteria for major episodes.

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Prevalence and course of Bipolar I and II

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Lifetime: 0.6 to 0.8% (USA); 1.6% (Singapore)
Male to Female Ratio (1.1 : 1)

Men > manic episodes
Women > depressive episodes; > rapid cycling; > alcohol use.

Average age of onset = 20 years old

Chronic condition
15 times more likely to have complete suicide
60-70% of manic episodes occur before or after a depressive episode

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Bipolar Mood disturbance period
Diagnostic criteria

what are the symptoms and how many?

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During mood disturbance period
(3 or more of the following symptoms

  • Inflated self-esteem/ grandiosity
  • Decrease need of sleep
  • More talkative
  • Flight of ideas
  • Distractibility
  • Psychomotor agitation (Hypersexual)
  • High risk behavior
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What are the treatment options for Bipolar patients?

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Mood stabilizers

Mood stabilizers include agents that treat mania while preventing manic relapse, and agents that treat bipolar depression while preventing depressive relapse.

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List the various categories of Mood stabilizers and adjunctive therapy

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-Mood Stabilizer: Lithium Carbonate
Anti-convulsants/ antiepileptics
Atypical Antipsychotics

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Mood stabilizer:
Lithium Carbonate

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Most popular/ effective mood stabilizer

1st drug to be FDA approved for treatment of manic episodes in bipolar disorder in 1970.

Significant side effect burden, poorly tolerated in at least 1/3 of treated pts

Narrow therapeutic window (0.4 to 1.0 mmol/L)

Changes in dietary sodium intake can affect Lithium levels

Fluid volume affects lithium levels may lead to increase in side effects, progressing to lethal Li toxicity

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Therapeutic window for Lithium Carbonate

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(0.4 to 1.0 mmol/L)

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What are the patient education that you will provide for patients taking Lithium Carbonate?

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  • Do drink enough water as the drug is excreted through the urinary system
  • Changes in dietary sodium intake can affect lithium levels.
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Name some of the anti-convulsants used to treat Bipolar

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Valporate,
Carbamazepine,
Lamotrigine

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Name some of the adjunctive therapy used together with anticonvulsants for patients that shows signs of ………..

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Antipsychotics are used in adjunctive therapy with anticonvulsants.

When patients show signs of irritability or aggression then we will use olanzapine and quetiapine,

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Name some of the adjunctive therapy used together with anticonvulsants

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Antipsychotics such as Olanzapine, Risperidone, Quetiapine, Aripiprazole,
Ziprasidone, Clozapine

remember the anti-“P”sychotics drugs ends with ~”P”ine, Done and zole

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What are the lab-tests to be done before starting Lithium Carbonate?

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  • Full blood count (FBC) with differentials
    Leukocytosis – benign
  • Renal function test, U/E/Cr
    Renal impairment
  • Thyroid function test
    Hypothyroidism
  • ECG If > 40yrs old or existing cardiac disease
  • Cardiac malformation, neonatal hypothyroidism
  • Weight (We do not want patient to gain weight)
  • Exclude Pregnancy (contraindicated to patients who are pregnant, concerns of birth defects)
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How frequent should we conduct Lithium monitoring for patients?

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Serum Lithium level monitoring:
* Sample** 5-7 days** after initiation,
* Change in dose/formulation
* Introduction of interacting medication.
* Monitor 2 weekly in acute phase until stable, 3 to 6 monthly thereafter.
* Obtain sample at least 12 hrs after last dose
* Therapeutic range: 0.4 – 1.0mmol/L

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If we are conducting Lithium Monitoring for the patient tomorrow morning at 9am, when should be the last dose of Lithium Carbonate?

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Last dose: 8pm today
Do not serve the morning dose at 8am and obtain sample

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Nursing interventions for Bipolar Disorder

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1) Establish TNPR
Non-judgemental
Active listening
Explore with patients
Encourage patient to verbalize if they have the mood to live on.

2) Milieu Management
Set boundaries
Check environment (noise levels etc.)
un-obtrusive suicide monitoring

3) Medication administration and monitoring
Side effects of the drug, after 2-3 weeks
behavioral charting
check for hoarding

4) Ensuring Patient’s Safety
(prevent single room, 1-1 monitoring, prevent patient self-lock, increased monitoring every 15mins)

**5) Caring for Patient’s ADLs **
(Hygiene & I/O Charting)

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List the various types of Anxiety Disorders
(all the Ds)

PD is not Parkinson Disease yea

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1) Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- Anxiolytics only in Panic stage.
2) Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) = Social Phobia

3) Panic Disorder w/ wo agoraphobia - Pharm
4) Simple Phobia - Psycho
5) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Pharm+Psycho
6) Adjustment Disorder

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Fear of Height

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Acrophobia

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Fear of Open Space

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of closed space

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Claustrophobia

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Fear of Strangers

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Xenophobia

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Fear of dirt and germs

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Mysophobia

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Fear of water

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Hydrophobia

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Fear of fire

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Pyrophobia

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Fear of animals

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Zoophobia

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Fear of cats

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Ailurophobia

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Fear of dogs

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Cynophobia

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Prevalence & Risk factors
of GAD in Singapore

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Singapore Mental Health Survey
2016 Prevalence of GAD 1.6%;
Female: Male
3.6 : 1

Commodity:
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD),
Dysthymia = (PDD)
Panic Disorder & Agoraphobia
Social Phobia

**Risk factors: **
Older age,
Chinese ethnicity Being divorced

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with selective inattention?

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Moderate Anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient is alert presents with heightened perceptual field?

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Mild Anxiety, patient can identify a source of anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with complete self absorption, focused on specific detail only?

What happens to their perceptual field?

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Severe anxiety
Perceptual Field greatly reduced.

32
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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with lack of focus on the environment, state of terror & emotional paralysis, panicky?

Patient in this anxiety state may also present with ……. or …….. de…… ?

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Panic anxiety state.
Patient may also present with hallucination or delusion.

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with severe shakiness, sleeplessness, severe withdrawal, immobility or severe hyperactivity?

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Panic anxiety state

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with confusion, sense of impending doom, tachycardia, threats and demand, feeling of drea, loud & rapid speech?

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Severe anxiety

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What are the 4 levels of anxiety?

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Mild
Moderate
Severe
Panic

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with Voice tremors?

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Moderate anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with attention seeking behaviour?

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Mild Anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with tension-relieving behavior such as biting nails.

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Mild Anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with irritability and/or restlessness?

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MIld Anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with repetitive questioning?

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Moderate Anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with pacing, banging hands on table?

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Moderate Anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient presents with Loud & rapid speech, hyperventilation, sense of impending doom?

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Severe anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
Patient is able to solve problems but not at optimal capacity

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Moderate anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
Patient is able to effectively work towards a goal and examine alternatives

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Mild anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient is unable to see connections between events or details

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Severe anxiety

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What is the Level of Anxiety State:
When patient is unable to learn and solve problems, disorganized or irrational reasoning.

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Panic stage of Anxiety

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What are anxiety disorders?

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Anxiety is a normal response to threatening situations.
Anxiety is pathological when it is excessive and persistent or when it no longer serves to signal danger.

Persons with anxiety use rigid, repetitive, and effective behaviors to control anxiety.

Anxiety disorders interfere with personal, occupational, or social functioning.

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Mental aspects of Anxiety Disorders.

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  • Worry - A state of unease/ uncertainty over actual or potential problems
  • Fear – A state of alarm due to an immediate threat to the individual
  • Rumination – Prolonged and compulsively focused
    attention on certain thoughts, often “looping”
  • Preoccupation – A state of being deeply absorbed in thought
  • Catastrophising – Imagining the worst or most terrifying outcome
  • Focusing on the negative – Remembering only the bad things that happen and leaving out the good
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Physical aspects of Anxiety Disorders

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Heart pounding
Rapid breathing
Chest pressure
Dizziness
Muscle tension
Weak legs

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Behavioural aspects of Anxiety Disorders

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SEEKING REASSURANCE
SEEKING HELP
AVOIDANCE
SICK ROLE
DEPENDENCE
RESTLESS
PACING

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What are the main difference in nursing management between the level of anxiety?
- mild & moderate
- Severe & panic

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Importance of milieu therapy and the use of medications for severe & panic level of anxiety

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Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is commonly known as?

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Social Phobia

A marked and persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations in which the person is exposed to unfamiliar people or to possible scrutiny of others

The individual fears that he or she will act in a way that will be humiliating or embarrassing

Exposure of feared situation provokes anxiety

Recognises fear as excessive or unreasonable

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Simple Phobias

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Marked and persistent fear that is excessive or unreasonable, cued by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation

Exposure to the phobic stimulus provokes anxiety

Recognises fear as excessive or unreasonable
avoids the phobic object or situation

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What are the 2 essential features of OCD?

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Obsession
Recurrent and intrusive thoughts, feelings, idea, and sensation.

Compulsion
A conscious recurrent** behaviour** such as cleaning, counting, checking, or avoiding.

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What are some of the Common Obsessions?

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Contamination
Pathological Doubt
Need for symmetry
Somatic Obsession
Worry about discarding something important

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Pharmacotherapy for OCD

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Tricyclics (TCAs)
- Clomipramine (Oral)

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI)
-Fluoxamine (Luvox)
-Fluoxatine (Prozac)
-Paroxetine (Paxil)
- Sertraline (Zoloft)
- Citalopram

Tricyclics/SSRI with Buspirone/ clonazepam (if anxious)

Tricyclics/SSRI with antipsychotics (if delusional)

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Psychotherapy for OCD

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Research shows that “behaviour therapy” was an effective treatment for OCD

Therapeutic Techniques
Exposure in vivo (directly facing a feared objection, situation or activity)
Exposure in fantasy
Response prevention (Delaying performance & ritual)

Patient Education
Managing anxiety during exposure sessions
Group Therapy
Cognitive Reconstructuring
Record Keeping

Combined pharmacotherapy & psychotherapy

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Panic Attack

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A discrete period of intense fear or discomfort
Abrupt onset, reached a peak within 10 mins

Four or more symptoms:
* palpitations,
* chest pain,
* shortness of breath, choking, nausea,
* abdominal distress,
* sweating, trembling, dizzy,
* derealisation, depersonalisation,
* fear of losing control,
* fear of going crazy or of dying

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Panic Disorder

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Recurrent unexpected panic attacks
Persistent concern about having further attacks
Worry about consequences of attack
e.g. Fear of losing control, of dying, of heart attack or stroke, of becoming crazy

First panic attack occurs when subjects are engaged in an ordinary aspect of life

Young life-threatening age 20 – 30

Background of life threatening illness, loss of close relationship, prolonged strain

Repeated visits to GP and ED

May be associated with Agoraphobia

Course is highly variable, waxing and waning

Pharmacological treatment early in the illness often leads to complete remission
5 year study: 34% recovered, 46% minimally impaired, 20% moderate to severely impaired

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