Diagnosis
This book is used to help professionals make a diagnosis.
What is the DSM-V?
A person with this disorder may have difficulty with focus, attention or sitting still.
What is ADHD?
Oxycodone, Percocet, hydrocodone are examples of this type of drug.
What are opioids/opiates
Where the mentally ill used to reside.
What is an asylum?
Stereotyping or labeling a person with mental illness is call this.
What is a stigma?
Who can diagnosis a mental illness?
What is a doctor, psychologist, psychiatrist?
A war veteran who has witnessed battle may be diagnosed with this.
What is PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)?
Sweating, vomiting, diarrhea, anxiety are symptoms of this.
What is with withdrawal?
A procedure where they removed a lobe of the brain to "cure" the mentally ill.
What is a lobotomy?
Paxil, prozac and zoloft are types of these.
What are anti-depressants?
A person with an increased heart rate, sweating, racing thoughts may be diagnosed with this.
What is anxiety?
ASPD stands for this?
What is anti-social personality disorder?
These two medications may be prescribed to help with substance abuse and withdrawal.
What are methadone and suboxone?
When mental hospitals closed and people were made to move out this was called what?
What is deinstitutionalization?
The definition of Autism is this.
What is "alone"?
People may not want to seek treatment or be diagnosed with a mental illness due to this.
What is stigma?
A person who has non-verbal and verbal tics over a period of time may be diagnosed with this.
What is Tourette's Syndrome?
This may be used to "rescue" a person who has overdosed.
What is Narcan or naloxone?
This type of therapy was used on the severely mentally ill.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
Ted Bundy and Charles Manson could be called this.
What are psychopath or sociopath?
Two diagnoses that often occur together are called this.
What is co-occurring?
A person under 18 who displays anti-social behaviors such as criminal acts, sexual assaults, running away may be diagnosed with this.
What is conduct disorder?
Trying to achieve that first high again can be called this.
What is chasing the dragon?
When holes were drilled in the skull as a treatment for mental illness this was called.
What is trepanning?
When a person with autism does repetitive action like spinning or flapping this is called.
What is stimming?