Altered Mental Status
Mental Health Disorders
Mental Health (continued)
Suicide Facts
Suicide Prevention
100
Normal mentation-characterized by complete and accurate awareness of one’s surroundings. Aware of who he/she is, where they are, current date and time, and events going on around them.
What is alert and oriented x4? “A & O x4”
100
Most common type of mental health condition. Can be triggered by specific events or environments.
Interferes with one's ability to function and often overreact when something triggers emotions.
Symptoms include: feelings of panic/worry, sense of impending doom/danger, rapid HR, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath, nausea, dizziness
What is anxiety?
100
Number one priority when dealing with psychiatric emergencies/patients
What is safety?
100
"Talking about suicide causes someone to be suicidal"
What is a popular suicide myth?
100
988- call or text
What is the Suicide and Crisis lifeline?
200
seizure, stroke, brain bleed, brain tumor, diabetic emergency, poisonings/overdose, low oxygen levels, shock, hypoxia, infection, head injury, psychiatric condition, kidney failure, dementia
What are possible causes of altered mental status?
200
Mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest and can affect how you feel, think and behave. Many people have troubles with doing normal day activities and many feel like their life isn't worth living. Symptoms can include: feeling of sadness, emptiness, or hopelessness, angry outbursts, loss of interest or pleasure in most or all normal activities, sleep disturbances, tiredness and lack of energy, reduced appetite or weight loss or weight gain
What is depression?
200
mental health disorder that features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears known as obsessions.
They can lead to repetitive behaviors-compulsions.
often centers around certain themes like: overly fearful of getting contaminated by germs; therefore causing someone to wash their hands over and over again until their sore and chapped.
What is OCD?
Obsessive compulsive disorder
200
The most common method used in suicides- used in more than 50% of suicides.
What are firearms?
200
608-339-6839
What is the Adams County Sheriff office's non emergency number?
300
What is Glascow Coma Scale?
300
formerly called "manic depression"- this is a mental health disorder that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression). This can last hours, days, weeks or months.
Manic episode symptoms: feeling high, elated, or jumpy, having a short temper or extremely irritable, racing thoughts, talking very fast, needing less sleep, doing risky behaviors
What is bipolar disorder?
300
mental health disorder that involves unhealthy eating habits. common symptoms include severe restriction of food, food binges, or purging behaviors like vomiting or overexercising.
Examples: Anorexia, Bulimia, binge-eating, Pica eating disorder
What are eating disorders?
300
Suicide rates are among the highest in this age/age group?
What is age 85 or older?
300
Previous suicide attempts, history of depression or other mental illnesses, serious illness/terminal illness, criminal legal problems, job or financial problems, substance use, sense of hopelessness
What are the possible risk factors of suicide?
400
Our first and most important priority with altered mental status patients?
What is airway management?
400
mental health condition that is triggered by a terrifying event. Symptoms can include: nightmares, severe anxiety, and uncontrollable thoughts about the event. Symptoms can start within one month after the event but often times may not appear until years after the event.
What is PTSD?
Post Traumatic stress disorder
400
mental health disorder in which a person has long-term patterns of unstable or explosive emotions, extreme mood swings and unstable relationships
They are often uncertain about their identity.
Other symptoms include: intense fear of being abandoned, cannot tolerate being alone, frequent feelings of emptiness, frequent displays of inappropriate anger, impulsive/risky behavior, repeated crises and acts of self harm, distorted sense of self
What is borderline personality disorder?
400
Number of Americans that die everyday from suicide
(hint: *over 100,but under 200)
What is 132?
400
Talking about being a burden, being isolated, increased anxiety, talking about feeling trapped or in unbearable pain, increase in substance use, looking for a way to access lethal means, increased anger or rage, extreme mood swings, expressing hopelessness, sleeping too much or too little, talking or posting about wanting to die, making plans
What are the warning signs of suicide?
500
3 important things we must think about with all UNCONSCIOUS altered mental status patients?
ABC's-AIRWAY- give oxygen and/or protect their airway management,
Check a blood sugar
Naloxone (overdoses)
500
mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. often the most chronic and disabling condition
In men-symptoms typically start in early to mid 20's/ In women-symptoms begin in late 20's.
What is schizoprhenia?
500
mental health disorder in which there is an intense focus on using a certain substance such as alcohol, tobacco or illicit drugs to the point where the person's ability to function in day to day life becomes impaired (often called an addiction)
People with substance use and behavioral addictions may be aware of their problem but not be able to stop even if they want and try to. The addiction may cause physical and psychological problems as well as interpersonal problems such as with family members and friends or at work.
Alcohol and drug use is one of the leading causes of preventable illnesses and premature death nationwide
What is substance abuse disorder?
500
3 states with the highest suicide rates
What is Alaska, Montana and Wyoming?
500
3 ways we as a department or (you, individually) can help to prevent suicide
Remember suicide is preventable.
Ways we can help: learn and recognize warning signs/risk factors, reduce access to lethal means among persons at risk, reduce access to prescription medications-drugs and alcohol, promote healthy peer norms, respond to crises, see something-say something (GET THEM HELP!)