Understanding Mental Illness
An illness of the mind.
What is mental illness?
This is a type of mood stabilizer.
What is Antidepressant?
Another word for Antipsychotic Drugs.
What is Major Tranquilizers?
This type of drug includes tranquilizer, sedative, pain killer, and stimulants.
What is Psychotherapeutic?
The father of psychoanalysis.
What is Sigmund Freud?
The application of the ___ model to emotional problems does not always mean that a person should be labeled mentally ill.
What is Medical?
True or False, low dosage levels of tricyclics can be toxic and excessive levels of antidepressant drugs can be fatal.
What is True.
An increasing number of children are being prescribed this drug/medication.
What is Antipsychotic Drug?
True or False, because these medications are prescribed by doctors, it means that they are safe to take under any circumstance.
What is False?
This involves attaching electrodes to one’s head and delivering electrical impulses to the brain.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
Pregnant women with less education and who receive Medicaid benefits are more likely to experience ______ ______.
What is Postpartum Depression?
Tricyclic Antidepressant that helps with anxiety/panic disorder.
What is Desipramine?
Acute dyskinesias (inappropriate motor movement) sometimes appear within __ year(s) after treatment.
What is 1/1 year?
About 7 million Americans over the age of 12 report recent use psychotherapeutic drugs for ______ purposes.
What is Nonmedical?
Women are ___ as likely as men to use prescribed drugs for mental disorders.
What is Twice?
Three types of disorders.
What is Neurosis, Psychosis, and Mood Disorders.
The most common prescribed antidepressant.
What is Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)?
True or False, autistic or withdrawn patients sometimes become less responsive and communicative.
What is False?
More than 22 million Americans aged __ and older use illegal drugs.
What is 12?
True or False, some patients received barbiturates and other depressants and slept for a week or more.
What is True?
About 2% of teens suffer the mild but long-lasting depression known as _____, and 15% of teens suffer from bipolar disorder.
What is dysthymia?
This prescription is commonly used to treat depression and anxiety disorders.
What is Lexapro?
A condition marked by a dull facial expression, weakness in the extremities, tremors, rigidity, and extremely slow and limited movements.
What is Parkinsonism?
Too many doses of psychotherapeutic drugs, such as sedative-hypnotics and antidepressants can unintentionally cause this.
What is Poisoning Deaths?
____ levels of medication use also correlate with more education, living by oneself, and higher income.
What is Higher?