Personality Disorders
Diagnostic criteria for this disorder can include an intense fear of abandonment, unstable self-image and relationships, stress-related paranoia, and impulsive or self-damaging behaviors.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Most often occurring 48-96 hours after the last drink, this severe form of alcohol withdrawal can cause hallucinations, seizures, autonomic instability, and death and requires immediate medical intervention.
What is Delirium Tremens?
Abruptly stopping an antidepressant (especially ones with a short halflife: Paxil, Effexor, Pristiq, Cymbalta, Luvox) increases the risk of this syndrome, characterized by dizziness, headaches, nausea, irritability, insomnia, and brain zaps.
What is Discontinuation Syndrome?
The most prevalent mental health condition among U.S. adults in 2021.
What are Anxiety Disorders (19.1%)?
Schizophrenia: <1%
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: 1.2%
Borderline Personality Disorder: 1.4%
Bipolar Disorder: 2.8%
PTSD: 3.6%
Major Depressive Disorder: 8.3%
She was the first African American to win the Best Actress Oscar for her 2001 film Monster's Ball. (Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for Gone With The Wind in 1940.)
Who is Halle Berry?
This disorder can be characterized by a pervasive grandiose sense of self-importance, a need for excessive admiration, a sense of entitlement, and a lack of empathy.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
This non-opioid antihypertensive drug, used off-label, can help reduce opioid withdrawal symptoms such as sweating, anxiety, and elevated blood pressure.
What is Clonidine?
With 38.2 million prescriptions written in 2022, this SSRI is the most prescribed psych med in the U.S.
What is sertraline (Zoloft)?
Representing a 30% increase between 2000 and 2022, more than 49,000 deaths in the U.S. resulted from this in 2022.
What is suicide?
Receiving awards for portraying our 16th President, an oil tycoon, and a disabled painter, this Irish actor has won the most Best Actor Oscars with three.
Who is Daniel Day-Lewis?
Often linked to overprotective or authoritarian parenting, those with this disorder can experience difficulty making decisions without an excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others and feelings of discomfort and helplessness when alone.
What is Dependent Personality Disorder?
This opioid antagonist (blocks opioid receptors in the brain) is prescribed for both Alcohol Use Disorder and Opioid Use Disorder to reduce cravings and prevent relapse.
What is Naltrexone?
Vivitrol (long-acting IM injectable)
ReVia (daily oral tablet)
This non-benzodiazepine anxiolytic is commonly used for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and does not cause dependence or sedation.
What is buspirone (BuSpar)?
*can take 2-4 weeks to produce its full effect
The percentage of U.S. adults with mental illness who also experienced a substance use disorder in 2021 (answer within 10 percent points).
What is 33.5 percent? (19.4 million individuals)
This fantasy trilogy finale won all 11 Oscars it was nominated for, tying the record for most wins.
What is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King?
Developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan, this gold-standard treatment for BPD focuses on developing skills to manage emotions, improve relationships, and reduce impulsive behaviors.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?
Chronic alcohol consumption decreases the absorption of this essential vitamin, increasing the risk of peripheral neuropathy, Wernicke's Encephalopathy, and Korsakoff's Syndrome.
What is Thiamine (B1)?
This beta blocker can be prescribed off-label to reduce the physical sensations of anxiety by blocking adrenaline and noradrenaline.
What is propranolol (Inderal)?
The annual prevalence of mental illness among U.S. adults is reportedly the lowest in this ethnic/racial demographic group.
What is Asian American (16.4%)?
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (18.1%)
Non-Hispanic Black or African American (21.4%)
Hispanic or Latino (20.7%)
Non-Hispanic White: (23.9%)
Native American or Alaska Native: (26.6%)
Non-Hispanic Multiracial: (34.9%)
This legendary director never won a competitive Oscar, despite nominations for films like Psycho and Rear Window?
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
People with this disorder can exhibit excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behaviors, often using dramatic expressions or seductive behavior.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
This large animal sedative is mixed with fentanyl to extend the drug's euphoric and sedative effects but does not respond to Narcan and can cause devastating necrotic wounds.
What is Xylazine (Tranq)
Hypertensive crisis can occur if a patient on MAOIs (Nardil, Emsam, Marplan, Parnate) consumes this substance found in aged cheese, cured meats, wine, and other fermented foods.
What is Tyramine?
An estimated 22.8% of U.S. adults (57.8 million people) experienced mental illness in 2021. This percentage of those received treatment (answer within 10 percentage points).
What is 47.2 percent?
This 1927 silent film set during World War I was the first to win the Academy Award for Outstanding Picture.
What is Wings?