Psychosis
Psychosis is
What is a condition that affects a person's ability to know what is real versus what is not real.
Cognition
What are the mental processes or thinking skills that allow people to learn and function in daily life?
People around you who can support you.
What is your Social Circle?
Managing stress can help you control psychosis.
T or F
True. Managing stress can make you feel better and help control psychosis.
Never mix these with my medications.
What are drugs and alcohol.
Common Symptoms of Psychosis
What are strange and unrealistic thoughts that won't go away even when other people believe the thoughts can't be true.
What are hearing things or seeing things that are not there.
Name the critical-thinking skills.
What are planning, organizing, problem solving, and abstract thinking?
Name 4 types of people who can support you.
What are 1. Family 2. Friends 3. Health Professionals 4. Boss 5. Teacher 6. Coaches, etc.
_________ can help you calm your body and mind.
What is Relaxation?
What I do if I have questions about my medications.
I can talk to Psychiatric Provider or the Nurse or read the medication inserts or look it up on Google and scare myself.
Name 3 other problems that can go with psychosis.
What are: 1. Wanting to be alone all the time. 2. Hard to sleep. 3. Feeling sad or anxious. 4. Not motivated to do anything. 5. Feeling "high" or excited 6. Using alcohol or drugs.
"Never Eat Shredded Wheat" is an example of
Using cues for better memory. Mnemonics are groups of words or letters that help you remember things.
North, East, West, and South are points on a compass.
Things that people do to make and keep good connections with other people.
What are Social Skills?
Tensing and relaxing different muscles in your body.
What is Progressive Relaxation?
Average time to know if my mental health medication is effective.
It typically takes 4 to 8 weeks of consistent use for most daily mental health medications.
EVERYONE would be psychotic if they...
1) Did not sleep for a long time.
2) Overused amphetamines for an extend period.
Name the 4 types of cognition.
What are:
1) Attention 2) Learning and memory 3) Critical-thinking skills and 4) Social cognition
Y or N. Is saying "no" when asked to do something you don't want to do a Social Skill?
Yes.
A useful strategy to lower anxiety about upcoming stressful events like a job interview.
What is Rehearsal?
What I know about my medications.
What are the names of the meds, the problems the med helps with, dose and times to take them.
Percentage of world's population who experience pychosis.
3%
People with poor Social Cognition have
Any of the answers: More fights. Have trouble being understood by others. More hurt feelings. Have trouble understanding others.
3 things my support person(s) can help me do when dealing with symptoms.
What are distraction (ex: play cards with me), perform a reality check and challenge unrealistic thinking.
Do not play computer games or view over-stimulating videos.
What is a Sleep Hygiene strategy to improve relaxation and sleep prior to bedtime.
The most common side effect for the top 200 prescribed drugs. Bonus if you can name the correct percentage.
Dry Mouth, affecting over 80% of frequent medications like allergy pills, antidepressants, and blood pressure drugs.