Anxiety & Bipolar Disorders Flashcards

(32 cards)

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

A

Anxiety

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

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General Anxiety Disorder

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3
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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
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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
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Hair pulling Disorder

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Trichotillomania

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14
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Skin picking disorder

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Excoriation Disorder

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15
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Re-experience a traumatic event normally through flashbacks or nightmares

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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16
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Common Medications prescribed for Anxiety, OCD, and PTSD

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Valium
Librium
Xanax
Ativan
Diazepam

17
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PET Scans show unusually high activity in what part of the lobs that redirects behavior

18
Q

The cause of anxiety is from what neurotransmitter not functioning properly

19
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Too much of what leads to the brain overacting and anxiety

20
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Characterize by a wide emotional swing ranging from depression to great euphoria

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Mood Disorders

21
Q

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

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Major Depressive Disorder

22
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Major Depressive Disorder is also called clinical depression and what else?

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Unipolar Depression

23
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Recurrent depression that usually occurs during winter and treated with the use of light therapy

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Seasonal Affective Disorder

24
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Extreme Mood Swings, Depression, Mania

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Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depressive)

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Mania, Depressions, Normalcy
Bipolar 1
26
Only depression and normalcy
Bipolar 2
27
Childhood relationships with parents who did not need their needs is a what type of explanation for Bipolar
Psychoanalytic
28
What is one important environmental factor that is thought to be important in understanding depression
Learned Helplessness
29
The biogenetic explanation for Bipolar Disorders is because there is what type changes in the brain
Chemical
30
Irregular levels of what causes mania and bipolar 1
Norepinephrine
31
Low levels of what lead to Bipolar 2
Serotonin/Norepinephrine
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Excessive secretion of what from the adrenal glands lead to depressed people
Cortisol