It's All In Your Head
Chemicals that pass messages between brain cells
What are neurotransmitters?
An emotional response to a frustration of desires, threat to one's needs, or a challenge
What is anger?
The two opposite poles of Bipolar disorders
What are mania and depression?
This defense mechanism is commonly used by patients who have a substance use or addictive disorder. "I can quit whenever I want to, but smoking really doesn't cause me any problems."
What is denial?
Consisting of the amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, basal ganglia, and cingulate gyrus, this system is known as the 'emotional brain' initiates the fight or flight response
What is the Limbic system?
Known as the Fight or Flight response, this nervous system has a quick action response
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
Bullying by a person of equal status is considered this type of bullying
What is lateral bullying?
Never having experienced a full manic episode, hypomania is a symptom of this type of Bipolar disorder
What is Bipolar II?
This reversing agent drug is the first choice to treat opioid toxicity
What is Naloxone (Narcan)?
This specific phobia is an extreme fear of certain places (the outdoors or being on a bridge) where the patient feels vulnerable or unsafe
What is agoraphobia?
Known as the Rest and Digest or the Feed and Breed, this nervous system has a slow response
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The nurse asks, "Have you ever thought of harming someone else". The nurse is assessing for this
What are homicidal ideations?
This specifier features symptoms of hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia
What are psychotic features?
Chronic use of this commonly used substance can result in cardiovascular damage, liver damage, erosive gastritis and gastrointestinal bleeding, acute pancreatitis, and sexual dysfunction
What is alcohol?
Associated with excessive collecting of items and persistent difficulty parting with these possessions, a person with this diagnosis can result in self-imposed social isolation
What is Hoarding Disorder?
Mistaking a cord at the end of the window blinds for a snake on the wall is a an example of this perceptual disturbance
What is an illusion?
This typical antipsychotic can be used to control aggressive and impulsive behavior
What is haloperidol (haldol)?
Cinema 1 and 2, last row. Row, row, row your boat. Don't be a cut throat. Cut your throat. Get your goat. Go out and vote. And so I wrote is an example of this thought process
What is clang association?
What is tolerance?
This anxiety level is characterized by palpitations, shortness or breath, choking or smothering sensation, chest pain, nausea, and the fear of dying
What is panic?
This is the best way to distinguish between hallucinations and delusion
What is hallucinations are associated with the five senses (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory) while delusions are a false fixed belief (grandeur, persecution, paranoia)?
When used for the patient who has become aggressive, facility guidelines must be followed along with continuous monitoring and assessments
What are seclusion and restraints?
Not a battery, this medication is first line treatment for bipolar
What is lithium?
A term used to describe when the concentration of the substance in the patient's bloodstream declines and the patient experiences potentially life-threatening physiological adverse effects
What is withdrawal?
Also, a type of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), the patient has a preoccupation with perceived flaws or defects in physical appearance
What is body dysmorphic disorder?