Anxiety Disorders
Exhibit developmentally inappropriate levels of concern over being away from a significant other, anxiety is so intense that it distracts suffers from their normal activities. Ex: elderly woman stops doing her normal activates when her husband dies
What is separation anxiety?
Symptoms that occur on a daily basis and may involve issues of sexuality, violence, contamination, illness, or death. Repetitive behaviors such as hand washing, ordering, checking, counting.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Blocks reuptake of Serotonin-increasing levels in the brain. First line of defense in most anxiety disorders/OCD. Ex: paroxetine (Paxil), fluoxetine (Prozac), escitalopram (Lexapro), & sertraline (Zoloft).
What are SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors)?
Persistent reexperiencing of a highly traumatic event (abuse, witnessing violence, automobile accidents, war) that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury to self or others, individual responds with intense fear, helplessness, or horror. sx: flashbacks, hypervigilance, depression.
What is PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)?
Inability to recall important personal information often of a traumatic or stressful nature. May be localized (unable to recall all events in a period of time) or selective (recall some events but not all during a certain period of time).
What is dissociative amnesia disorder?
severe anxiety or fear provoked by exposure to a social or performance situation that could be evaluated negatively by others. Ex: not being able to answerer a question in a classroom, looking awkward while eating in public, or performing on a stage.
What is social anxiety disorder?
Irresistible urge to pick at skin to deal with stress and relieve anxiety; typically on the face but may also include back, arms, legs, nails, and scabs.
What is excoriation disorder?
Reduce/breakdown monoamine enzymes in the brain to allow higher levels of serotonin, norepinephrine, & dopamine in the brain. Increased risk for hypertensive crisis & need to avoid foods with tyramine. Ex: phenelezine (Nardil) & isocarboxazid (Marplan)
What is MAOIs (Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors)?
Develops immediately after a traumatic event and persist for at least 3 days but diagnosed within 1 month of trauma (if longer considered PTSD). sx: anger, irritability, alterations in concentration
What is ASD (acute stress disorder)?
The focus on oneself, an extremely uncomfortable feeling of being an observer of one's own body or mental processes.
What is depersonalization disorder?
symptoms of anxiety; panic attacks, obsessions, and compulsions that develop with the use of a substance such as alcohol, cocaine, heroin, or hallucinogens
What is substance-induced anxiety disorder?
Excessive accumulation of belongings of little or no value, belongings fill every space of one's living environment often making it uninhabitable. Indecisiveness is commonly associated with disorder.
What is hoarding disorder?
Binds to receptors, facilitates action of GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), slowing neural transmission thus lowering anxiety, tx panic disorders. Ex: alprazolam (Xanax), diazepam (Valium), lorazepam (Ativan), & clonazepam (Klonopin)
What are Benzodiazepines?
Precipitated by a milder/less specific stressful event (chronic illness or break-up), may be diagnosed immediately or within 3 months of exposure. sx: guilt, depression, anxiety, & anger
What is adjustment disorder?
Presence of 2 or more distinct personality states that recurrently take control of behavior. Occurs after severe repetitive trauma (sexual abuse, sev neglect) during childhood. sx: host not aware of alters, finding unfamiliar clothing in closet, coming to consciousness/waking up in unfamiliar places and not sure how one got there.
What is DID (dissociative identity disorder)?
Sudden onset of extreme apprehension or fear, usually associated with feelings of impeding doom, attacks come out of the blue and normal functioning is suspended.
What is panic disorder?
Preoccupation with an imagined defective body part results in obsessional thinking and compulsive behavior such as mirror checking and camouflaging. Seeks cosmetic surgeries, dermatology tx, & oral/maxillofacial surgeries.
What is body dysmorphic disorder?
Blocks both serotonin & norepinephrine levels in the brain. Treats anxiety/depression & nerve pain. Ex: venlafaxine (Effexor).
What is SNRIs (Serotonin Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors)?
Children have a consistent pattern of inhibited & emotionally withdrawn behavior. The child does not seek comfort from care givers when distressed d/t lack of bonding. sx: repetitive behaviors, social problems, depression, cognitive & language problems.
What is reactive attachment disorder?
The focus is on the outside world, recurring feeling that one's surroundings are unreal or distant.
What is derealization disorder?
Excessive worry which include inadequacy in interpersonal relationships, job responsibilities, finances, & health of family members. Occurring more days than not for at least 6 months. sx: putting things off, being late/absence from school/work, social isolation, sleep disturbance
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
Obsessively pulls hair out, typically from the head but also could include; eyebrows, eye lashes, pubic areas, axilla, & limbs. Hair pulling relives anxiety; can be inherited.
What is Trichotillomania?
Blocks reuptake of serotonin & norepinephrine, causing higher levels in the brain. Often prescribed if SSRIs/SNRIs do not work or are not tolerated. Ex: amitriptyline & mirtazapine (Remeron)
What is TCAs (Tricyclic Antidepressants)?
Children come across remarkedly friendly and confident. Children have no fear of strangers and will go off with anyone, by attaching to everyone they don't actually attach to anyone. sx: rarely check back with adult caregivers, sit on strangers lap, talk to strangers
What is disinhibited social engagement disorder?
A subtype of dissociative amnesia, sudden unexpected travel and an inability to recall one's identity & information about some or all of the past- in rare cases assumes a whole new identity.
What is dissociative fugue?