Week 1-2 Flashcards
What does Phobia mean?
- Extreme or irrational fear to something
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Mental health condition that is triggered by a terrifying event/flashback or symptom
What is Depression?
- Is a mood disorder that is persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest
What is Anxiety?
- Feeling of worry, nervousness/unease about something
What is bipolar?
- A psychiatric illness characterised by manic/depressive episodes
Why is stigma attached to mental health illness?
- Stigma is a form/sign of discrimination, shame, disgrace and rejection.
- Attached to mental health as stereotyping due to ones difference due to their illness.
Explain how stigma might affect the patient and their families?
- Affects families/patient by causing pain, distress.
- Made to feel ashamed, hidden, develop fear of illness causing social and financial impact.
Describe how you would challenge stigma about mental illness?
- Encourage people to talk about their illness
- Oppose misconception about mental illness
- Refer to the person not illness
- Correct/accuracy of media reports of illness
Explain where stigma came from?
From middle ages/ancient days
Define Psychosis:
Psychosis: A group of disorders characterised by hallucinations, delusions and thoughts.
Define Schizophrenia:
Schizophrenia: Psychotic feature characterised by thought, perception, volition, emotional and judgemental behaviours.
Explain biomedical theory in development of schizophrenia?
- Abnormal amount of neurotransmitter dopamine action in the brain.
- Theory referred to dopamine hypothesis, mix of facts/hypotheses.
Subtypes of schizophrenia
- Paranoia
- Catatonic
- Disorganised
- Undifferentiated
- Residual
Define Paranoia Schizophrenia:
- Onset 20-30, no impairment of social/occupational function.
- Dominant features: delusions/unfolded suspiciousness and hallucinations.
- Disorganised behaviours, social function
Define Catatonic:
- Less common than paranoia schizophrenia
- Come in 2 forms
- Excessive and Severe
- Debilitating/disorganised motor skills behaviour characteristics
Define Disorganised Schizophrenia:
- Disinhibited/disorganised and regressive behaviour characteristics.
- speech, behaviour, inappropriate affects
Define Residual Schizophrenia:
- Used when symptoms aren’t sufficient intensity/attribute other subtypes
- Emotional/illogical thinking
- Alogia eccentric behaviour
What are the positives of schizophrenia?
- Hallucinations
- Delusions
- Thought disorders
What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
- Emotion withdrawal
- Lack of motivation
- Blunt affect
- Apathy
- Cognitive impairment
What are Psychotic Disorders?
- Schizophrenia form disorder
- Schizo affective disorder
- Delusional Disorder
- Substance Induced
What are the phases of Schizophrenia?
- Prodromal Phase
- Acute Phase
- Maintenance Phase
- Stability Phase
Define Prodromal Phase:
- Initial symptom of schizophrenia developed
- Early adolescence/difficulty to identify
- Impairment in functioning
Define Acute Phase:
- Acute psychotic symptoms
- Safety, medication, stabilising
Define Maintenance Phase:
- Acute symptoms/less severe
- Adherence to medical regime, symptoms gone stay on medication
