Mood
Anxiety
Psychosis
Addictions
Mental Health in Movies
100

There are a number of symptoms in the DSM-V criteria for diagnosing a major depressive mood episode.

In order to diagnose this, you need to see at least THIS many of these symptoms

What is five?

100

Diagnosis of Panic Disorder involves a fear of THIS, in between the Panic Attacks

What are:

further panic attacks

100

You are going to see a patient with 'psychotic behaviour' in the ED. You know there are five criteria for diagnosing schizophrenia. You also know the diagnosis requires at least one of these three criteria to be true

What is:

1) delusion

2) hallucination

3) disorganized speech

100

THIS drug is produced from plant alkaloid leaf extract, popularly associated with a famous cola brand.

What is:

Cocaine, refined from the extract of the Coca leaf

100

In this movie, Winona Ryder plays Susann Kaysen, a young woman who, after a suicide attempt, spends 18 months at a psychiatric hospital between 1967 and 1968 

What is:

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

200

Depression can be present in up to 50% of THIS often overlooked population

Who are:

The Elderly in Nursing Homes

up to 15% in community >65 yo

up to 50% in Nursing Homes > 65 yo

200

You see a patient with their wife who says that last week she noticed four days where her husband was:

- extremely talkative

- did not sleep as he kept working on projects

- became very sexual, multiple occasion per night, which is not his normal

However this did not negatively impact his work or normal social life.

You are most likely to apply THIS diagnosis

What is:

Hypomanic Episode


A manic episode would require:

a) impairment in social or work function

b) lasting 7 days or more

200

This is a type of delusion where a person may believe that other people can hear or read their thoughts

What is:

Thought Broadcasting

200

Treatment of alcohol withdrawal in a patient with significant Liver disease should be treated with THIS medication (or drug class)

What is:

Lorazepam (Ativan)

(Benzodiazepines or benzos also acceptable)


200

In this 2012 movie, Bradley Cooper plays Patrick "Pat" Solitano Jr., a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a psychiatric hospital and meets a young widow (played by Jennifer Lawrence) who offers to help him get his wife back if he enters a dance competition with her

What is:

Silver Linings Playbook


300

A Cochrane review in 2008 compared THIS common 'natural' product to standard antidepressants and found that it was not only more effective than placebo, but similarly effective as the standard antidepressants

What is:

St John's Wort (hypericum extract)

300

A history of a manic episode, with features of psychosis allows us to immediately make THIS diagnosis

What is:

Bipolar I

300

You decide you need to place your psychotic patient on a 5150 hold. 


In order to do so, you realize you need to justify it with one of these three reasons


What is:

1) for the protection of the patient themselves (or Danger to Self)

2) for the protection of others (or Danger to Others)

3) to prevent the patient's substantial physical or mental deterioration (or gravely disabled)

300

You patient reports recurrent severe nausea with cyclical emesis, which he says can be relieved by a hot shower or bath.

This presentation is most likely due to THIS substance of abuse

What is:

Cannabis

Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome

300

In this 2001 movie, Russell Crowe plays John Nash, an accomplished mathematician who develops paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while watching the burden his condition brings on his family

What is:

A Beautiful Mind

400

While ECT has a bad rap despite proving its effectiveness for a number of psychiatric disorders. Patients who are consenting to this therapy should be informed of THIS common side effect

What is:

Memory loss


as well as myalgias, headaches


400

THESE are repetitive behaviours or mental acts, that an individual feels driven to perform in response to recurrent or persistent thoughts

What are:

Compulsions

as in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

400

This is rare side effect is caused by long-term use of antipsychotic medications and is characterized by repetitive purposeless face and limb movements

What is:

Tardive Dyskinesia

400

Virtually all addictive drugs affect THIS neurotransmitter

What is:

Dopamine

400

In this 2004 film, Leonardo diCaprio portrays the life of Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD)

 

What is:

The Aviator

500

A patient has a 2 year Hx of numerous periods of hypomania and depressive symptoms which never meet criteria for hypomanic episodes or MDE.

This pattern is suggestive of THIS mood disorder

What is:

Cyclothymia

500

THIS is a marked fear or anxiety about two of:

- using public transportation

- being in open spaces

- being in enclosed spaces

- standing in line or being in a crowd

- being outside of the home

What is:

Agoraphobia

500

Your patient with known schizophrenia was initially doing well after trying a couple of different antipsychotics, however she has come back with a strong command voice telling her to kill herself.

This medication is reserved as last line pharmacology for cases such as this

What is:

Clozapine

500

Your patient with Alcohol Abuse Disorder is hoping for some medication to help them stay sober.

You can offer them THIS first line medication option

What is:

Naltrexone

an opioid antagonist, which reduced the 'high' from alcohol. 

500

This 2012 coming-of-age drama film depicts the struggles of a teenager named Charlie who, unbeknownst to him, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, as he goes through his journey in high school making new friends

 

What is:

The Perks of being a Wallflower

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