Medication Basics
These medications can help with symptoms like depression, anxiety, mood swings, hallucinations, or trouble focusing.
What are psychiatric medications?
Mood Stabilizers are used most often to treat this disorder.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
These are some common side effects of psychiatric medications.
What is sleepiness, dry mouth, nausea, appetite changes, and weight changes?
What is none?
When this illness is treated with medication, the results are
-Decrease in hallucinations and delusions
-Improved organization of thinking and speech
-Decreased paranoia and increased social contact
What is Schizophrenia?
Name three things you should tell your doctor before starting a new psychiatric medication.
What is other medications you're taking, vitamins and supplements, alcohol or drug use, allergies, pregnancy, medical conditions, previous medications and side effects?
An SSRI is an example of this type class of medication.
What are Antidepressants?
Shaking, stiffness, restlessness, or unusual movements can be side effects of these medications.
What are antipsychotics?
One reason you should tell your doctor if you are using alcohol or other drugs.
What is they can interact with medications, make mental health symptoms worse, increase side effects, affect treatment decisions?
This mental illness is characterized by episodes of mania or hypomania and depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
Psychotropic don’t cure the illness, but they...
What is "treat the symptoms?"
Antipsychotic medications are often used to treat this type of disorder.
What is Schizophrenia?
What is severe rash, difficulty breathing, suicidal thoughts, high fever, fainting?
This can occur if you mix medication inappropriately.
What are Unpleasant side-effects?
Hallucinations are different from delusions because hallucinations involve
What are a false sensory experience (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, or feeling something that isn't there)?
True or False: The same medication works the same way for everyone.
False.
Give an example of an antidepressant.
What is Prozac, Celexa, Zoloft, Paxil, or Lexapro?
Some medications may cause weight gain. Name two healthy habits that can reduce this side effect.
What are regular exercise, walking, eating balanced meals, drinking water instead of sugary drinks, portion control, talking with your doctor?
The medical term for experiencing physical or psychological symptoms after suddenly stopping or reducing a substance.
What is withdrawal?
Name some major categories of symptoms commonly seen in schizophrenia.
What are hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, disorganized speech?
Name two ways medication can support recovery besides "curing" symptoms.
Better sleep, fewer symptoms, fewer hospitalizations, improved mood, better focus, more stability, improved functioning
Name a medication that treats bipolar disorder.
What is lithium?
True or False: If a medication causes side effects, you should stop taking it immediately without talking to your provider.
False.
The difference between dependence and addiction.
What is dependence is the body adapting to the substance and withdrawal occurring and addiction is compulsive use despite harmful consequences?
The difference between a panic attack and an anxiety disorder.
What is a panic attack is a brief episode of fear and an anxiety disorder is chronic anxiety.