Mental Disorder
What are the three D's?
Dysfunction, Devaince, Distress
Negative Symptoms
Emotionless, Expressionless, Rigid Posture
Brain Abnormalities
hyper responsive dopamine
Anorexia nervosa
low body weight, maintains a starvation diet, delusional about being fat, excessive exercise
Autism
1.Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction
2. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities
3. Symptoms must be present in the early developmental period
4. Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment
Major Depressive Disorder
Must show 5 or more symptoms, one being either depression or lack of interest for two or more weeks
Positive Symptoms
Perceptions, inappropriate laughter, distorted laughter
DID
Dissociative Identity Disorder-rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities
Bulimia nervosa
-they binge eat and then throw up, laxatives, inappropriate weight loss, no great attempt to reduce food intake, body weight is typically normal or above normal, they recognize their problem
PTSD
4 or more weeks
Reoccurring memories/nightmares
Hypervigilance, jumpy anxiety
Social withdrawal
Numbness of feeling
Bipolar 1
Hospitalization, Medication needed, Mania, Some depressive episodes, psychotic symptoms
Acute
a form of schizophrenia that can begin at any age, frequently occurs in response to an emotionally traumatic event, and has extended recovery periods
3 clusters
Dramatic or impulsive
Anxious
Patients do not feel that there is something wrong
Binge-eating disorder
binge eat and then guilty, unhealthy coping mechanism
OCD
Time consuming
Interfere with everyday life
Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive, and persistent thoughts
Compulsive behaviors are responses to those repetitive thoughts
Bipolar II
No hospitalization, hypomania, major depressive episodes
Chronic
a form of schizophrenia in which symptoms usually appear by late adolescence or early adulthood
Personality Disorder
3 clusters
Intellectual disability (mental retardation)
<70 IQ
understand abstract concepts
have struggle with math, reading, etc
early childhood
social situations
sometimes with autism
Illness Anxiety Disorder
a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease, excessive
preoccupation with one’s health
Rumination
compulsive fretting
hallunications vs delusions
Hallucinations-false perceptions
Delusions-false beliefs, selective attention breakdowns
somatic symptom disorder
Symptoms take a somatic(bodily) form without apparent physical cause, Excessive preoccupation
with physical symptoms
ADHD (3 types)
predominantly inattentive, predominantly hyperactive-impulsive, and combined
Antisocial personality disorder
most prevalent in jails today