Psychiatry

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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Sym: Repetitive handwriting, checking doors locked, & repeating words

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Panic Disorder

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sudden attacks of severe, overwhelming anxiety w/o an identifiable cause ex. choking, CP

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Phobia

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intense, unreasonable fear of a specific thing or situation or even the thought of

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Phob/o

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fear

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acrophobia

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fear of heights

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agoraphobia

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fear of crowds

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claustrophobia

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fear of closed in spaces

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thanatophobia

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fear of death

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ophidiophobia

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fear of snakes

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triskaidekaphobia

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fear of the number 13

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Post Traumatic Stress DIsorder (PTSD)

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continuing, disabling reaction to an excessively traumatic situation or event
Ex. war, terrorist attack, torture, rape, kidnapping, disasters
Sym.=Helplessness, disinterested in people & current events, chronic anxiety

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Bipolar Disorder

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chronic mood swings btw mania & depression

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Mania

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depressive disorder- extreme happiness…. then swings of severe depression

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Schizophrenia

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chronic loss of touch w/ reality

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Attention- deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

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more common in boys than in girls, most children outgrow the syms. by later childhood

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Tourette’s syndrome

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frequent, spontaneous, involuntary movement tics (throat clearing, eye blinking)
Tx: therapy, drugs (riperidone, haldol)

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Exhibitionism

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obtaining power, control, & sexual arousal by exposing the genital area in public areas to strangers

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Rape

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obtaining power, control, & sexual arousal

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Sadism

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obtaining power, control & sexual arousal by deliberately causing abuse, pain, humiliation

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Transsexualism

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person’s belief that he/she has been assigned to the wrong sexual identity– sex changers

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Transvestism

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obtaining sexual arousal by wearing clothes belonging to the opposite sex or posing as someone of the opp. sex– Transvestite

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Voyeurism

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a practice in which an individual derives sexual pleasure from observing other people

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Trichotillomania

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repetitive pulling out of hair from the head

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Impulse

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like watching fires

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Munchausen syndrome

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exhibiting factitious medical or psychiatric symptoms aware that they are lying, but are unaware that their motivation is the desire for assistance, attention, pity

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Fugue state

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abandonment of personal identity, along w/ the memories-begins a new life at another location

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Beck

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depression inventory | assessing the degree of depression

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Rorschach test

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inkblot test-using cards, patient is asked to describe what the inkblot shapes mean to them

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Hypnosis

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a sleeplike trance, used to treat anxiety & phobias & to help patients stop smoking or lose weight -Patient is able to remember