Mood & Affect
Serious shifts in mood, energy, thinking, and behavior from the highs of mania on one extreme.
What is Bipolar disorder?
Two or more weeks of sad mood, lack of interest in life activities, changes in sleep, weight, and energy, and inability to make decisions.
What is MDD?
Used in the treatment of MDD, these medications block the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin.
What is antidepressants?
Cycles alternate between periods of mania, normal mood, depression, normal mood, mania, and so forth.
What is mixed episode?
Unrelenting, rapid, often loud talking with pauses.
What is pressured speech?
Not all the way to the stop of mania spectrum. Can actually be productive and feel good. No psychotic episodes occur.
What is hypomanic episode?
What are the periods of high and low called?
What is mania depression?
Used in conjunction with medication is considered the most effective treatment; useful therapies include behavioral, cognitive, interpersonal therapy.
Typically last about 1 week or longer; includes inflated self-esteem, grandiosity, decreased sleep, excessive and pressured speech, flight of ideas, distractibility, increased agitation, excessive involvement in pleasure-seeking or risk-taking activities.
What is mania?
Excessive amount of speech composed of fragmented or unrelated ideas, racing often unconnected thoughts.
What is flight of ideas?
A marked alteration in emotions that appear as depression, mania, or both and consists of MDD and Bipolar disorder.
What are primary mood disorders (affective disorders)?
Inadequate washout time, or taking too much of an SSRI can cause this.
What is muscle rigidity, weakness, tremors, paralysis, autonomic abnormalities (increased HR, temp, tachypnea, diaphoresis)?
This category of antidepressants are the most dangerous and used only when others medications do not work.
What are MAO's?
In MDD, about 20% of clients have delusions and hallucinations, which is referred to as this.
What is psychotic depression?
Feel like they are special and have a sense of entitlement that others may view as arrogant or demanding.
What is inflated self-esteem?
Mostly depression recurrent depressive episodes with at least one hypomania episode.
What is Bipolar II?
Oriented to person and place but rarely to time; inability to concentrate, may experience hallucinations, rarely can fulfill role responsibilities, invade intimate space and personal business of others; can become hostile to others; cannot postpone or delay gratification.
What is Bipolar disorder?
One of the most widely used medications for treating Bipolar disorder.
What is lithium?
Without medical attention, approximately how many percent of bipolar patients commit suicide?
What is 15-20 %. And, in spite of this, only about one-third of sufferers receive treatment.
Exaggerating achievements, constantly boasting and talking about oneself.
Mood disorders are the most common psychiatric diagnosis associated with this.
What is suicide?
In order to be diagnosed with depression, how long do the symptoms have to be present?
What is 2 weeks or longer.
How people with undiagnosed Bipolar disorder go about treating themselves?
What is with alcohol and drug abuse?
The state of living without mood disturbances, mood & effect between episodes.
What is euthymic periods? These periods can be short or last months to year.
Losing any sense of pleasure from activities they formerly enjoyed.
What is anhedonia?