Mental health Flashcards
Terms (54 cards)
They are false perceptions, they are sensory which means we either see, hear, smell, touch or taste them.
Hallucinations
Not being able to experience a stimulus can cause the experience of that stimulus, when you cut off or minimise your sensory input which could lead to unusual experiences
Sensory deprivation
Spending long periods with no sleep can cause to see and hear unusual things
Sleep deprivation
They are misconceptions, we think we see something but it turns out to be something else
Illusions
A relatively benign experience of immersive visual hallucinations often experienced by those losing their eyesight
Charles Bonnet Syndrome
Includes complex visual hallucinations that take over all of someone’s visual field which believed to be a result of the shutting down of the visual cortex as people’s eyesight fails
Charles Bonnet Syndrome
An altered state of consciousness which can occur when people are under acute stress, intoxicated, in pain, suffering from infection, extremely disorientated in a new setting, hypoxic or constipated or any combination of the above.
Delirium
It is a critical nursing problem that is often misdiagnosed
Delirium
A secondary condition which arises from an underlying unmet physical health need
Delirium
This can last from a matter of hours to months
Delirium
Chronic use of stimulants can result in hallucination where people have the sensation of things crawling around under their skin
Formication
Skin picking, where people believe there are things inside them and may harm themselves to remove them
Eckboms syndrome
An umbrella term covering a wide range of different experiences and difficulties for people of which hallucinations are just one form.
Psychosis
They are fixed false beliefs that are not explainable through social context or culture.
Delusions
Different forms of delusions
grandiosity, grandeur, confabulations, ideas of reference
When someone behaves and may also believe themselves to be much more capable, talented, unique or superior than they actually are.
Grandiosity
When someone believes they are really something they are not.
Delusions of grandeur
Short lasting delusional ideas that occur when someone is unable to account for something and then fills in the gaps.
Confabulations
A serious brain condition that is usually, but not exclusively, associated with chronic alcohol misuse and severe alcohol use disorder (AUD)
Korsakoff’s syndrome
A form of delusion where people interpret everyday experiences as having a special significance for them in particular
Ideas of reference
A term for when an idea is held strongly, but no so strongly that it is considered delusional
Over-valued ideas
The most common form of delusional thinking
Paranoia
It normally refers to a person’s experience of fear, anxiety and mistrust of others
Paranoia
May describe a general state of hyperarousal and anxiety about the risk of harm or threat to themselves, or it can be specific to a mistrust of an idea, event or person
Paranoia
