Who am I?
Prolonged feelings of hopelessness, loss of interest, low energy, changes in activity level, changes in sleeping habits are symptoms of this mental illness.
What is depression?
This personality disorder is diagnosed at or after age 18 and is most recognized in men.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
This personality disorder may have intense personal relationships, recurrent suicidal threats, impulsiveness, feelings of abandonment.
What is borderline personality disorder?
Superhuman strength, sweating, rapid breathing, dilated pupils, and 105–113-degree body temperature are symptoms of this disorder.
Excited Delirium
The recurrent use of alcohol and/or drugs causes clinically and functionally significant impairment, such as health problems, disability, and failure to meet major responsibilities at work, school, or home.
What is substance use disorders?
I am characterized by excessive fear that is difficult to control and negatively impacts daily functioning
Anxiety Disorders
A blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain.
What is a Traumatic Brain Injury?
Memory problems, confabulation, impaired thinking, and impaired judgment are symptoms of this mental diagnosis.
What is Dementia?
A deeply ingrained, inflexible pattern of relating, perceiving, and thinking serious enough to cause distress or impaired functioning.
What is a personality disorder?
These two phases are commonly seen in bipolar disorder
What is mania phase and depressive phase?
This is a serious disturbance in mental abilities that results in confused thinking and reduced awareness of your environment. The start of this is usually rapid - within hours or a few days.
Delirium
Significantly sub average general intellectual functioning that is concurrent with deficits in adaptive behavior and originates during the developmental period.
What is Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities?
Abnormally high mood, inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, and excessive risk taking are part of what phase?
What is mania phase?
Flat Affect
Disillusionment with daily life
Isolating behavior
Lack of motivation
Infrequent speaking
Three most common personality disorders.
What is paranoid, antisocial, and borderline personality disorders?
Illness involving a distortion of reality that may be accompanied by delusions and/or hallucinations. These are most seen in persons with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression or drug induced disorders.
What is psychosis?
Hearing voices, strange sensations, unexplained feelings, seeing glimpses of objects or people that are not there are examples of what experience related to psychosis.
What are hallucinations?
Inflexible, rigid, & unable to respond to changes/demands of life; have a narrow view of world; unlikely to seek treatment; higher likehood of criminal justice involvement; high rates of self-medication - all characteristics of which disorder?
Personality Disorder
What is the definition of eating disorders?
Eating disorders are serious conditions related to persistent eating behaviors that negatively impact your health, your emotions, and your ability to function in important areas of life.
What are the appropriate responses to excited delirium?
1. Notify medical staff
2. Remove physical restraints
3. When using restraints, monitor for positional asphyxiation
Strong beliefs that are not consistent with the person’s culture, are unlikely to be true and may seem irrational to others.
What are delusions?
High levels of stress may cause a breakdown in information processing, leading memories to be stored as physical or sensory cues. Experiences associated with the original event(s), and may have the power to evoke memories of the event.
What is a trigger?
Delirium could be caused by which medical conditions? Hint: there are 9 , but you need 5 for points!
Severe/Chronic Medical Illness
Changes in metabolic balance (low sodium)
Medication
Infection
Surgery
Diabetes
Water Intoxication
Alcohol Withdrawals
High ammonia levels
Alcohol/drug withdrawal
What are the physical withdrawal symptoms? Note: 8 are listed, you need 5 for points!
Sweating
Racing Heart
Palpatations
Muscle Tension
Tightness in Chest
Difficulty Breathing
Tremor(s)
Nausea/Vomiting/Diarrhea
What are the most common Behavioral Symptoms of a TBI? I want 5 out of 7!
1. Irritability
2. Aggression
3. Anxiety
4. Egocentricity
5. Difficulty w/Memory
6. Reckless decision-making
7. Anger