Medications & Side Effects
This is considered the gold standard among mood stabilizers. Medications affecting renal function or salt and water balance can alter it's concentrations. It has a narrow therapeutic index.
Lithium (or Eskalith or Lithobid)
The absence of happiness or the inability to feel pleasure in aspects of life that once made a person happy
anhedonia
This treatment is accepted as a first line treatment for SAD which is considered a subtype of major depressive disorder. It is thought to suppress the nocturnal secretion of melatonin which seems to have a therapeutic effect on people with SAD.
Light therapy
a continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic
flight of ideas
Pharamcologic treatment of a depressive episode in Bipolar Disorder may bring on this
mania or manic phase
Foods that are rich in tyramine, such as aged cheeses, pickled or smoked fish, and wine should be avoided with this class of antidepressants
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
poverty of thought
This helps people reconstruct their negative thought patterns and behaviors, leading to lasting mood improvements.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (or CBT)
period of intense mood disturbance with persistent elevation, expansiveness, irritability, and extreme goal-directed activity or energy
mania
What is the universal number for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline
988
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
An abnormal lack of energy, may result in psychomotor retardation, in which movements are extremely slow, facial expressions are decreased, and gaze is fixed.
Anergia
Brief seizures are deliberately induced by an electrical current transmitted through electrodes attached to one or both sides of the head. The usual courses of this treatment for a patient with depression is 2-3 treatments per week for a total of 6-12 treatments.
Electroconvulsive therapy (or ECT)
Changes in these patterns are especially important because they usually precede, accompany, or precipitate mania.
sleep
During this phase of mania hospitalization provides safety, imposes external control on destructive behaviors, and provides medication for stabilization
acute (or acute phase)
This Norepinephrine and serotonin specific antidepressant is frequently given to patients with symptoms of insomnia or decreased appetite and weight loss due to it's common side effects of sedation, appetite stimulation, and weight gain.
Mirtazapine (or Remeron)
the Beck, Hamilton, & PHQ-9 are tools used to assess what
Depression
Originally used in the treatment of epilepsy, this treatment uses electrical stimulation to boost the level of neurotransmitters and thereby improve mood and enhance the action of antidepressants
Vagus nerve stimulation (or VNS)
"Cinemia I and II, last row. Row; row, row your boat. Don't be a cuthroat. Cut your throat. Get your goat. Go out and vote. And so I wrote" is an example of what
clang associations
cluster suicide (or contagion suicide or copycat suicide)
A rare and life-threatening event associated with SSRIs that may manifest with symptoms including abdominal pain, diarrhea, sweating, fever, tachycardia, elevated blood pressure, altered mental state, myoclonus, increased motor activity, irritability, hostility, mood changes and in severe cases hyperpyrexia, cardiovascular shock, or death.
Serotonin Syndrome
Asking questions such as "do you have a specific plan with details?" & "do you have access to the planned method" help to evaluate ____________ of a suicide plan and the degree of suicide risk.
lethality
This in a noninvasive treatment modality that uses MRI strength magnetic pulses to stimulate focal areas of the cerbral cortex.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
Your patient is taking an anticonvulsant such as lamotrigine, carbamazepine, or phenytoin & developed flu-like symptoms 2-3 days ago. He now has what appears to be a blistering rash on his upper body and it has begun to spread to his face and arms. This could be what syndrome?
Stevens-Johnson syndrome
providing mental healthcare and support to suicide survivors
postvention