Psychiatry Flashcards
(67 cards)
Drug act as deterrent to help quit alcohol
Disulfiram
Drug reduce Craving to alcohol
Acamprosat
To be aware of your mental illness and seek ttt called…….
Insight
2 Alcohol screening tool
AUDIT CAGE..... > Cut down feeling Annoyed by people Guilty feeling eye opening drinker
delusion of guilt and nihilism
psychotic depression
delusions of reference. control. persecutory. grandiosity
schizophrenia
ttt of OCD
1- CBT…..> ERP
2-SSRI
3- ECT if suicidal or severely incapacitated
Alcohol +10 tab paracetamol……. next action ?
referral to psychiatrist
dose isn’t life threatining
actions doesn’t match the mood ………
mood incongeuence
ttt of panic disorder and general anxiety disorder
1-CBT
2-SSRI…> Sertraline
3- If failed after 3 months ……..> imipramine
Don’t use benzdiazepine
old with coarse tremor+confusion+ then coma
which drug toxicity cause that?
lithium
ttt of PTSD
1- truma FOUCSED-CBT . eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
2- SSRI (paroxitine )
TTT of tourett $
1- respiridone or halopridol
2- CBT. Habit-reversal training
How to stop SSRI
After good response should be continued for 6 months to reduce relapse
then gradual withdrawal over 4 months
rapid speech without pauses
pressure of speech
to think that someone replaced by another identical one
capgras $
pt on clozapine devekoped fever+ tachycardia+ muscle regidity
NMS
Conciously act as he has physical or mental illness
Ganser$
usually prisoner want to gain leniency
altered body images either getting small or expanding
Todd’s $=alice in wonderland
delusion of double = think that different people are in fact one person
Fregoli $ (all is one)
think that he is dead
cotard $ or nihilistic delusion
think he has serious diseas as cancer
TX?
hypochondriasis
Pychiatrist referral for neuropyschiatric analysis
body symptoms but no physical problem
somatization $
neurological symptoms due to psychological cause
conversion disorder