Clinical Depression
How many symptoms of clinical depression is needed to classify as clinical depression?
What is 5+ Symptoms?
Sensing things that aren't there(Hearing voices)
What is Hallucination?
The person who created psychoanalysis
Who is Freud?
The two pieces of literature that are used to diagnose mental illness and diseases.
What is the DSM and ICD?
A type of study that combines many studies to find an overall results on a topic.
What is a Meta-analysis?
Rina went through a breakup and feels heartbroken. She cries occasionally and doesn’t feel like going out for a couple of days, but she still completes her schoolwork and can concentrate. She enjoys spending time with her roommates, and her sadness gradually eases over two weeks as she processes the situation.
What is regular sadness?
Showing little to no emotional expression
What is Flat Affect?
Therapy focused on unconsciousness desires and childhood conflict using hypnosis and free association.
What is Psychoanalysis?
A severe disorder involving distorted thinking, hallucinations, delusions, and disturbed behavior
What is Schizophrenia?
Scientists inject sugar water into half of the patients to compare how the real medication actually works in the other half of patients that were injected with medication.
What is Placebo?
Aisha has trouble getting out of bed and has missed multiple shifts at work. She reports no interest in hobbies she once enjoyed. She eats constantly and has gained weight quickly. She feels guilty about things that are not her fault. She moves very slowly and speaks softly. Her sadness has lasted for over two months and doesn’t improve even when good things happen.
What is Clinical Depression?
Very limited speech and difficulty speaking and forming words.
What is Alogia?
When a client projects feelings onto the therapist. (Client feels like her therapist is similar to her mom who was never happy with her.)
What is Transference?
What is Chronic Schizophrenia?
A class of medication that is used for psychosis and usually affect the neurotransmitter dopamine.
What are anti-psychotic drugs?
Daniel has been feeling down most of the day, nearly every day, for over a month. He has withdrawn from his friends and cancels plans regularly. He sleeps more than 12 hours a day and still feels exhausted. He often says he feels worthless and spends hours fixated on his failures. His professors have noticed he doesn’t participate in class because he can’t concentrate.
What is Clinical Depression?
Remaining still for long periods of time and having a "wavy flexibilty"
What is Catatonia
Gradually building up to facing ones' fear to reduce the clients anxiety and fear of that object.
What is Exposure Therapy?
The idea that a disorder is caused by a combination of genetics and environmental factors(Life Stressors).
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
This symptom causes something to be added to ones normal function and is a symptom that wouldn't normally be present in a healthy person. Hallucination would be an example.
What are positive symptoms?
Bill starts heavily drinking every night to forget about the death of his wife of 35 years. He is in a bad mood everyday and sad. His speech is slowed and he has gained 50 pounds. He no longer loves playing golf and he takes melatonin because he cannot fall asleep by himself.
What is Regular Sadness?
What is Neologism?
A patient experiences a large improvement in their mental disorder without treatment. Usually not permanent.
What is Spontaneous Remission?
Extreme anxiety around physical symptoms(such as pain/fatigue) that causes so much stress it disrupts daily life even though medical examinations have found no causes.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
What are ventricles?