Schizophrenia
Probably the best explanation for the existence of this disorder.
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
Mood disturbance with intense elevation, expansiveness, irritability, and extreme energy.
What is Mania/manic episode?
Risk for Injury
Main reason for hospitalization of a depressed patient, considered a psychiatric emergency.
What are Suicidal Ideations?
A healthy reaction necessary for survival. Motivates people to make and survive change.
What is (Normal) Anxiety?
Characterized by a focus on physical symptoms, such as pain or fatigue, to the point of excessive concern, preoccupation, and fear.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
Haloperidol and Chlorpromazine are examples of this type of medication.
What are First Generation Antipsychotics?
Refers to low level and less dramatic mood disturbance, without psychosis.
What is Hypomania?
Term meaning the outward expression of a person's internal state of being, and an objective finding based on a nurse's assessment.
What is Affect?
Coping tools that protect people from anxiety by blocking uncomfortable or harmful feelings, conflicts, and memories.
What are Defense Mechanisms?
Characterized by extreme worry and fear of having or contracting a disease or illness.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
Refers to a sudden, sustained contraction of one or several muscle groups, usually of the head and neck, causing significant anxiety and distress.
What is Acute Dystonia?
Unless the dystonia affects airway patency, which is rare, dystonia is not dangerous.
Term for distorted and generally false thoughts.
What are Delusions?
Term meaning the absence of happiness or pleasure in aspects of life that once made the patient happy.
What is Anhedonia?
Sudden onset of extreme apprehension or fear, usually associated with feelings of impending doom, suspending normal functioning.
What is a Panic Attack?
Manifests as neurological symptoms in the absence of a neurological diagnosis, including deficits in motor or sensory function.
What is Conversion Disorder?
A life-threatening medical emergency caused by excessive dopamine receptor blockade, fatal in up to 10% of cases.
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
Most common type of medications used to treat Bipolar disorder.
What are Mood Stabilizers?
Life threatening effect of toxicity associated with SSRIs.
What is Serotonin Syndrome?
Alternative anti-anxiety medication that does not cause dependence, may be used for long-term treatment and should be taken regularly.
What is Buspirone/BuSpar?
Going from provider to provider, clinic to clinic, or hospital to hospital, hoping to establish a physical basis for their distress.
What is Doctor Shopping?
Term that refers to an inability to recognize illness, caused by the illness itself.
What is anosognosia?
What is ECT/electroconvulsive therapy?
Class of antidepressant medications considered to be the most problematic.
What are MAOIs/monoamine oxidase inhibitors?
First medication to be considered for treatment of most anxiety and obsessive-compulsive related disorders.
What are SSRIs?
Characterized by consciously pretending to be ill to get emotional needs met and attain the status of patient.
What is Factitious Disorder?
Or Munchausen syndrome