Identifying Mental Illnesses
The patient has obsessions that force them to do actions.
What is a common symptom of OCD?
War, abuse, or other traumatic events.
What are causes for PTSD?
A method of treatment for OCD that exposes patients to images that display their obsessions, and then prevents the patients from acting out their compulsions.
What is CBT?
A person's thoughts, feelings, behaviors, or relationships with others.
What can mental health disorders affect?
An irrational belief; one example of such a belief is the patient believing that there is a conspiracy out to get them.
What is a delusion?
Brain tumors, stress, or drug abuse.
What are causes of psychosis?
A common treatment for PTSD; involves a counselor talking to the patient; also known as "talk therapy."
What is psychotherapy?
Shyness, past traumas, a family history, or physical conditions like thyroid conditions of arrhythmias of the heart.
What are risk factors for anxiety disorders?
The patient's mood swings from very happy and excited to very depressed.
What is a symptom of bipolar disorder?
Biochemistry, genetics, personality, and environmental factors such as exposure to poverty or abuse.
What are causes of depression?
A special doctor that can help treat eating disorders like pica with an individualized plan.
What is a eating disorder specialist?
2 weeks.
How long must symptoms of depression last before a positive diagnosis?
Common symptoms include having an out-of-body experience, feelings of being a different person, feeling emotionally numb, and feeling numb to pain.
What are common symptoms of disassociation?
A common cause of most mental illnesses.
What is stress?
Where does a patient with severe psychosis go?
An interesting type of treatment for disassociation or psychosis; involves focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.
What is hypnosis?
The patient eats things such as clay or dirt that are not normally edible.
What is pica?
The patient views themselves as overweight.
What is a cause of anorexia nervosa?
An overarching treatment for most mental illnesses.
What is medicine?
Hospitalizations or drug abuse, due to a lack of poor judgement.
What can severe manic episodes result in?