Mental Health Basics
This term describes medical conditions that affect mood, thinking, behavior, and daily functioning.
What are mental health disorders?
Persistent sadness, loss of interest, and changes in sleep are hallmark signs of this disorder.
What is depression?
These conditions begin in childhood and affect learning, behavior, or development.
What are developmental disabilities?
Loss of contact with reality involving hallucinations and delusions defines this disorder group.
What are psychotic disorders?
This progressive disease is the most common cause of dementia.
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
True or False: Mental health disorders are considered personal weaknesses.
What is False?
This disorder involves alternating episodes of depression and mania or hypomania.
What is bipolar disorder?
Difficulty with attention, impulse control, and sometimes hyperactivity describes this disorder.
What is ADHD?
This rare but serious psychiatric emergency can occur shortly after childbirth.
What is postpartum psychosis?
Rigidity, bradykinesia, and tremors are hallmark signs of this disorder.
What is Parkinson’s disease?
Medical assistants primarily focus on these three areas when working with mental health patients.
What are recognition, communication, and referral?
This disorder is characterized by chronic, excessive worry that is difficult to control.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
This affects communication and social interaction and exists on a wide spectrum.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
DAILY DOUBLE
Unwanted thoughts followed by repetitive behaviors.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
A brief interruption of blood flow to the brain is called this.
What is a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)?
This category of disorders primarily affects a person’s emotional state for weeks to months.
What are mood disorders?
Sudden intense fear with physical symptoms that may mimic a heart attack describes this condition.
What is panic disorder?
This involves intense fear of weight gain and restricted food intake.
What is anorexia nervosa?
This develops after exposure to trauma and includes intrusive memories and hyperarousal.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This type of seizure involves abnormal electrical activity in one area of the brain.
What is a focal Seizure?
This type of depression is linked to seasonal changes and decreased sunlight.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?
This consists of three different types that all function in a spectrum.
What is Bipolar Disorder
A patient with an eating disorder reports dizziness, fainting, and an irregular heartbeat. This finding requires the Medical Assistant to immediately inform what member of the healthcare team?
Who is the Provider
This disorder exists on a spectrum
What is Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder?
This is what the acronym F.A.S.T. stand for.
What is Face, Arm, Speech, Time?