Anxiety & Bipolar Disorders Flashcards

1
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Feeling of impending doom or disaster from specific or unknown source

A

Anxiety

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2
Q

Persistent anxiety for 6 months, no real reason, tense and anxious for more than 1/2 of life

A

General Anxiety Disorder

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3
Q

Freud called General Anxiety Disorder what?

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Free Floating Anxiety

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4
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Recurrent panic attacks, shortness of breath, chest pains, can go from minutes for hours

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Panic Disorder

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5
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Irrational, overwhelming, and persistent fear of a object or situation: dread it so much they are willing to go anything to avoid it

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Phobic Disorder

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6
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Fear of open spaces of being in crowded public spaces

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Agoraphobic

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7
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Fear of being negatively evaluated in social situations to the point where they stop going out to eat or attend social events

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Social Anxiety Disorder

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8
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Anxiety provoking thoughts that will not go away: repetitive, ritualistic behaviors that are used to produce a situation

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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9
Q

What are the top 3 repetitive thoughts with OCD

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  1. Dirt and germs
  2. Fear of something terrible happening
  3. Symmetry, order, exactness
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10
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What are the top 3 repetitive behaviors with OCD

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  1. Excessive washing, bathing
  2. Repetitive rituals
  3. Checking doors and locks
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11
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Difficulty discarding or parting with items regardless of actual value

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Hoarding Disorder

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12
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Repetitive behaviors or mental acts in response to preoccupations with perceived flaws in physical appearance

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Body Dysmorphia Disorder

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13
Q

Hair pulling Disorder

A

Trichotillomania

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14
Q

Skin picking disorder

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Excoriation Disorder

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15
Q

Re-experience a traumatic event normally through flashbacks or nightmares

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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16
Q

Common Medications prescribed for Anxiety, OCD, and PTSD

A

Valium
Librium
Xanax
Ativan
Diazepam

17
Q

PET Scans show unusually high activity in what part of the lobs that redirects behavior

A

Frontal Lobe

18
Q

The cause of anxiety is from what neurotransmitter not functioning properly

A

GABA

19
Q

Too much of what leads to the brain overacting and anxiety

A

Glutamate

20
Q

Characterize by a wide emotional swing ranging from depression to great euphoria

A

Mood Disorders

21
Q

Called the common cold of mental disorders
Deeply unhappy
Bored
Does not feel well

A

Major Depressive Disorder

22
Q

Major Depressive Disorder is also called clinical depression and what else?

A

Unipolar Depression

23
Q

Recurrent depression that usually occurs during winter and treated with the use of light therapy

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Seasonal Affective Disorder

24
Q

Extreme Mood Swings, Depression, Mania

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Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depressive)

25
Q

Mania, Depressions, Normalcy

A

Bipolar 1

26
Q

Only depression and normalcy

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Bipolar 2

27
Q

Childhood relationships with parents who did not need their needs is a what type of explanation for Bipolar

A

Psychoanalytic

28
Q

What is one important environmental factor that is thought to be important in understanding depression

A

Learned Helplessness

29
Q

The biogenetic explanation for Bipolar Disorders is because there is what type changes in the brain

A

Chemical

30
Q

Irregular levels of what causes mania and bipolar 1

A

Norepinephrine

31
Q

Low levels of what lead to Bipolar 2

A

Serotonin/Norepinephrine

32
Q

Excessive secretion of what from the adrenal glands lead to depressed people

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Cortisol