Repetitive behaviors done to prevent or reduce anxiety.
What are compulsions?
Antidepressant medications used as first-line treatments for anxiety.
What are SSRI & SNRI?
A withdrawal symptom that is unique to opioid withdrawal.
What is bone/joint aches?
What is runny nose or tearing?
What is yawning?
What is gooseflesh skin/goosebumps?
Committed murder and has no remorse.
What is Antisocial PD?
Childhood abuse, neglect or family violence.
What are ACES? Adverse Childhood Experiences.
Teaches different ways of thinking, behaving, and reacting to anxiety-producing situations.
What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)?
Medication used to manage the physical symptoms of anxiety.
What is a Beta Blocker?
An acute, life-threatening neurological condition caused by thiamine deficiency related to alcohol misuse.
What is Wernicke's syndrome?
Received constructive feedback and spends hours obsessing over it, feeling like a complete failure.
What is Avoidant PD?
Shivering, hyperreflexia, fever, encephalopathy caused by an antidepressant medication.
What is Serotonin Syndrome?
OER 7.4
Physical symptoms of anxiety such as abdominal pain or chest pain.
What are somatic symptoms?
Non-benzodiazepine or antidepressant anxiolytic medication indicated for the treatment of chronic anxiety. Must be taken scheduled to work.
What is Buspirone?
Medication that decreases alcohol cravings.
What is Naltrexone (Vivitrol)? or acamprosate (Campral)?
When others share their achievements, they one up them or downplay the other person's success.
What is Narcissistic PD?
This electrolyte needs to monitored when prescribed lithium.
What is Sodium?
Symptoms include paresthesia
What is panic disorder?
A medication that may treat obsessive-compulsive disorder if antidepressants don't help.
What is an antipsychotic?
A severe, life-threatening form of alcohol withdrawal
What are Delirium tremens (DTs)?
A friend doesn't immediately respond to a text message they sent so they feel abandoned and text them that they don't want to be friends anymore.
What is Borderline PD?
A nonjudgmental way to say that someone is "clean" or not using substances.
What is testing negative on a toxicology screen?
What is in remission?
What is in recovery?
What is abstinent?
What is not currently drinking or taking drugs?
Term for when an individual is extremely afraid of being in situations that make it hard to leave if they were to have a panic attack or other embarrassing symptom.
What is agoraphobia?
Antihistamine medication used for symptoms of anxiety that has less risk for dependency.
What is Hydroxyzine?
Medication used to treat symptoms of acute alcohol withdrawal.
What is Lorazepam (Ativan) or Chlordiazepoxide (Librium)?
Librium is popular as a treatment for alcohol withdrawal specifically because it has a long half-life which makes it less likely there will be rebound symptoms. Lorazepam works quickly but has a shorter half-life.
Outside of work, their relationships are strained. Plans the day down to the hour and becomes upset that others want to be spontaneous. Love to make lists.
What is Obsessive Compulsive PD? OCPD?
High fever, severe muscular rigidity, confusion, agitation, hyperreflexia, elevation in white blood cell count caused by an antipsychotic medication.
What is neuroleptic malignant Syndrome? NMS.