Abbreviations
Dx
What is Diagnosis
This will present with symptoms such as tightness, pain, or pressure in the chest that spreads to the shoulder, arm, and back.
What is a Heart Attack
Mental illness for much of history was blamed on this.
What is demonic procession, witchcraft, or an angry god.
This was used to put a patient into a coma, believing it would lead to 'rewiring' of the brain and cure mental illness.
What is Insulin
This singer is diagnosed with bipolar disorder after receiving treatment for her addiction and eating disorder.
What is Demi Lovato
Hx
What is History
This can present with symptoms such as blurry vision, excessively thirst, and numbness or tingling in hands or feet.
What is Diabetes
This was practiced in the late 1400's to the late 1600's for people who were mentally ill but were believed to have made a pact with the devil.
What is Burned at the Stake.
This was used with the belief that spinning could increase the circulation in the brain and cure mental disease.
What is Rotational Therapy
This American swimmer suffers with ADHD.
What is Michael Phelps
Sx
What is Symptom
This can show symptoms such as tiredness, sensitivity to cold, dry skin, weight gain, and puffy face.
What is Hypothyroidism
This is how mentally ill individuals were kept during the 18th century.
What is kept in dungeons and chained to their beds.
This was used with the hope of calming down an individual by lowering their body temperature.
What is an Ice Bath
This actor has struggled with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder at the age of 5. (He is no muggle!)
What is Daniel Radcliffe.
Tx
What is Treatment
This can present symptoms such as restlessness, fatigue, trouble concentration, increased muscle tension, and trouble sleeping.
What is GAD (generalized anxiety disorder)
This is when antipsychotic medications were brought to market.
What is began in 1954
What is Injection of Malaria.
This star of Supernatural has struggled with depression and supports "To Write Love on her Arms."
What is Jared Padalecki.
ANT
What is automatic negative thought
This can present with symptoms such as wheezing when you breathe, feeling very tired, chest pain, shortness of breath, a high temperature, and a cough.
What is Pneumonia
This is a social reformer who was critical in creatin the first American mental asylum.
What is Dorothea Dix
This was induced through Metrazol, a medication, being administered to individuals with schizophrenia.
What is Seizures.
This television doctor struggles with clinical depression.
Hugh Laurie