Calm Your Body Parts
Excessive, persistent, and uncontrollable anxiety and excessive worrying.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Phenelzine, Selegiline, Isocarboxazid
What are examples of MAIOs
Most limiting, debilitating of all phobias
What is agoraphobia?
Surgery, drugs, urinary tract infections, pneumonia, cerebrovascular disease, and congestive heart failure
What are common cause of delirium?
“I can’t take it anymore”
“Life isn’t worth living”
What are overt statements/verbal clues of suicide?
Thoughts, impulses or images that persist and recur which cannot be dismissed from the mind- seem senseless
What are obsessions?
Education your client about these potential effects of TCAs
What are anticholenergic effects and orthostatic hypotension?
Lack of enjoyment in life
What is anhedonia?
This side effect of TCAs would be a concern
What is urinary retention?
Guns, hanging, carbon monoxide
What are extremely lethal methods of suicide?
Persistent, intense irrational fear leads to avoidance of object, activity, situation
What is a phobia?
Tell your patient to report this when started on an anti-depressant
What is to report an increase in suicidal ideation?
Assistance with complex interpersonal skills such as negotiating or resolving conflict
What is social skills training?
Consider this client problem as a priority
What is at risk for injury?
“It’s okay now, everything will be fine”
“Things will never work out”
What are covert statements/verbal clues to suicide?
Completed to temporarily reduce high levels of anxiety
What are compulsion?
Ask your physician before starting any additional medications when taking these and follow specific dietary plan
What are MAOIs?
Make observations, use simple concrete words, allow time for response
What are interventions for withdrawn individuals?
Use these judiciously to help with behavioral problems in the elderly
What are antipsychotics and benzodiazepines?
Remove potential weapons, one-on-one observation, no-suicide contract
What are interventions for a suicidal client?
Reoccurring flashbacks, dreams/nightmares, increased autonomic hyper arousal with hypervigilance
What are symptoms of PTSD?
To help ensure stability and prevent relapse, these medications should be taken every day
What are mood stabilizers/ Lithium/ anti-psychotics?
“I really never do anything well” “Once you’re down, you can’t get back up” “It doesn’t matter what you do; nothing ever gets better”
What are examples of Beck’s cognitive triad?
A negative, self-deprecating view of self
A pessimistic view of the world
The belief that negative reinforcement will continue
Requires a doctors order, time-frame, close monitoring
What are restraints?
Social isolation, solitary living arrangements, widowhood, lack of finical resources, poor health
What are risk factors for suicide the elderly?