Mental Illness III

Question 1

What are the 5 major depressive disorders?

Answer 1

Major depressive disorder, dysthymia, double depression, seasonal affective disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder

Question 2

What is MDD?

Answer 2

Major depressive disorder: what we call depression.

• Severely depressed mood &/or inability to experience pleasure for 2 weeks
• Feelings of worthlessness, lethargy, sleep, and appetite disturbance

Question 3

Smoking has the same mortality rate as this mental disorder

Answer 3

MDD: Major depressive disorder

Question 4

What the 4 types of symptoms associated with MDD:

Answer 4

Emotional: sad, hopelessness
Motivational: lack of interest/drive
Cognitive: can’t make decisions, poor self esteem
Somatic: weight change, insomnia, loss of appetite

Question 5

If you are depressed how would you respond to the Stroop test compared to someone who is not depressed?

Answer 5

Depressed person would have a slower reaction time on specific questions

Question 6

What is dysthymia?

Answer 6

Less intense version of MDD but it lasts MUCH longer (2yrs)

Question 7

What is double depression

Answer 7

Both MDD and Dysthymia, so feeling shitty for a very long time

Question 8

What is the time frame from Premenstrual dysphoric disorder?

Answer 8

5 days before to 1 week after menstruation

Question 9

What is the difference between Behavioural Activation and behavioural inhibition?

Answer 9

BA: you are under active and do not get excited by normal/little things
BI: Inhibited by minor threats, you get crippled by the little things

Question 10

What are 3 psychological beliefs people with depressive disorders believe?

Answer 10

That they are defective and flawed
That the world is defective and flawed
The future is pointless and flawed

Question 11

What are the 4 components involved in anxiety?

Answer 11

Subjective emotional feelings, cognitive processes (worrying, lack of control), excessive physiological arousal, behaviours that reflect the anxious state

Question 12

What is the difference between fear and anxiety?

Answer 12

Fear is a reaction to a perceived imminent threat (something is actually happening)
Anxiety is a reaction to a future threat (not currently happening)

Question 13

What is the most common mental illness?

Answer 13

Anxiety

Question 14

What is a Phobia?

Answer 14

A persistent, excessive irrational fear of specific objects, activities or situation

Question 15

What are the 3 types of phobias?

Answer 15

Specific(a specific thing, ex. a dog), social anxiety(fear of social situations), agoraphobia (fear of having a panic attack)

Question 16

Agoraphobia is more commonly found in which gender?

Answer 16

Neither its equal in both,

Question 17

A person has a traumatic fall from a high place and develops a fear of heights because the high place was associated with pain of the fall. List the CR, CS, and UCS

Answer 17

CR: Fear of Heights
CS: High place
UCS: Trauma/pain of the fall

Question 18

What is GAD?

Answer 18

General Anxiety Disorder: Chronic and excessive worrying accompanied by 3 or more of the following:

• Restlessness, fatigue, concentration, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance.
• 6% of north americans

Question 19

How is GAD treated?

Answer 19

with benzo

Question 20

What is a panic attack? how does it differ from a phobia?

Answer 20

Panic: extreme hopelessness and helplessness with acute anxiety.
Phobic is caused externally by a stimuli where panic attack is caused internally from a thought.

Question 21

What are some potential causes of anxiety?

Answer 21

Overactive ANS, decreased levels of GABA (leading to over active brain), Cognitive attention and misinterpretation of physiological signals, emotional conditioning

Question 22

How is OCD defined?

Answer 22

recurrent and unwanted thoughts or images and compelling urges to engage in repetitive ritual like behaviour.

Question 23

What are the types of OCD?

Answer 23

Body dysmorphic disorder: preoccupation with a defect in appearance
Hoarding
Trichotillomania: hair pulling
Excoriation disorder: skin/scab picking