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, energy and concentration with inability to make decisions
What is major depressive disorder?
Used in the treatment of Major Depressive disorder, these medications block the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin
What are antidepressants?
cycles alternate between periods of mania, normal mood, depression, normal mood, mania, and so forth
What is mixed episode?
unrelenting, rapid, often loud taking without pauses
What is pressured speech
not all the way to the stop of the mania spectrum. Can actually be productive and feel good. No psychotic episodes occur
What is hypomanic episode?
Used in conjunction with medication is considered most effective treatment; useful therapies include behavioral, cognitive, interpersonal therapy
What is psychotherapy?
typically last about 1 week or longer; includes inflated self-esteem, grandiosity, decreased sleep, excessive & 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 Major Depressive disorder and bipolar disorder
What are primary mood disorders (affective disorders)?
Inadequate washout time, or taking too much of an SSRI can cause this.
What muscle rigidity, weakness, tremors, paralysis, autonomic abnormalities (increased HR, temp, tachypnea, diaphoresis)
This category of antidepressants are the most dangerous and used when other medications do not work.
What are MAOI's
In major depressive disorder, 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 and 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, impaired ability 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?
exaggerating achievements, constantly boasting and talking about oneself
What is grandiosity?
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, normal mood & affect) mood & effect between episodes. Euthymic periods can be short or last months or even years.
What is euthymic?
losing any sense of pleasure from activities they formerly enjoyed
What is anhedonia?