MOOD disorders
A pervasive and sustained emotion that may have a major influence on a person’s perception of the world.
What is mood?
Examples of mood include depression, joy, elation, anger, and anxiety.
A feeling of discomfort, apprehension, or dread related to anticipation of danger, the source of which is often nonspecific or unknown.
What is anxiety?
A mental health disorder that some people develop after they experience or see a traumatic event. The traumatic event may be life-threatening, such as combat, a natural disaster, a car accident, or sexual assault.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Medical care is rarely used for a patient/client with Illness anxiety disorder.
What is Illness anxiety disorder Care-avoidant type?
The most potentially life-threatening adverse effect of MAOIs.
WHat is a hypertensive crisis?
The external, observable emotional reaction associated with an experience.
What is Affect?
A flat affect describes someone who lacks emotional expression and is often seen in severely depressed clients.
These have been implicated in the pathophysiology of anxiety disorders.
What are neurotransmitters?
Disturbances in serotonin, norepinephrine, and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) appear to be most significant.
This is your body's way of helping to protect itself from possible harm. It causes changes in your body such as the release of certain hormones and increases in alertness, blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing.
What is Fear?
Triggered by a "fight-or-flight" response from the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis
A young man is brought into the emergency department by the police. He does not know who he is or anything at all about his life.
What is generalized amnesia?
2-6 weeks
What is the amount of time SSRi medications take to reach full potential?
A mood disorder characterized by the onset of depression during the winter months, when there is less natural sunlight.
What is Seasonal affective disorder?
A type of therapy where the client is gradually exposed to the phobic stimulus, in either a real or an imagined situation.
What is systematic desensitization?
A philosophical approach that values awareness and understanding of trauma when assessing, planning, and implementing care. SAMHSA advances the following principles in defining this approach.
What is Trauma-informed care?
Trauma-informed care
■ Realizes
■ Recognizes
■ Responds
■ Resist retraumatization.
Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders are the physical and behavioral responses to this unconscious phenomenon.
What is Repressed severe anxiety?
Rapid onset that progresses from diarrhea, restlessness, agitation, hyperreflexia, and fluctuations in vital signs to later symptoms of myoclonus, seizures, hyperthermia, uncontrolled shivering, and muscle rigidity, and ultimately it can lead to delirium, coma, status epilepticus, cardiovascular collapse, and death
What are symptoms of serotonin syndrome?
Accelerated, pressured speech.
Excessive interest in sexual activity.
Paranoid and grandiose delusions are common.
What are behaviors of a manic episode?
Sertraline, citalopram, escitalopram.
What are examples of SSRIs?
A type of therapy for PTSD and ASD strives to help the individual recognize and modify trauma-related thoughts and beliefs.
What is Cognitive therapy?
Franklin is assigned to secure a contract for his company. The boss tells Franklin, “If we don’t get this contract, the company may have to fold.” When Franklin wakes up on the morning of the negotiations, he is unable to see. The doctor in the ED has ruled out organic pathology. Franklin is transferred to the psychiatric unit with this diagnosis.
What is Conversion disorder?
Sedation, sleep disturbances, fatigue, hallucinations, disorientation, visual disturbances, weakness, ataxia.
What are adverse effects of TCAs?
Antimanics, anticonvulsants, calcium channel blockers, antipsychotics
Learned responses to decrease stress/anxiety.
What are coping skills?
Specific selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are considered the first-line pharmacological choice for PTSD because of their efficacy, tolerability, and safety ratings Which of this class have been approved by the FDA for this purpose.
What are Paroxetine and sertraline?
A patient is allowed to miss work, gets financial compensation, and sympathy cards as the result of a medical condition.
What is an example of Secondary gain from somatic symptom disorder?
Studied for its potential benefit in reducing nightmares and enhancing normal dreaming patterns in clients with PTSD.
What is the alpha1 antagonist prazosin (Minipress)?