Psychotic Disorders (Lauren 🌭) Flashcards
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What is psychosis?
Loss of contact with reality 🚀
What are the Positive symptoms of psychosis?
Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganized thoughts and speech
Disorganized or catatonic behavior
What is this:
“Fixed false beliefs, despite disproving evidence’
Delusions
What is the difference between bizarre and non-bizarre delusions?
Non-bizarre delusions are technically plausible. (But are obviously not true)
Ex: The Chandler Police, the Phoenix Police and the Tucson Police are all trying to catch me
🏃♂️🚓🚓🚓
What are paranoid delusions?
“People are following me”🕶
What are persecutory delusions?
“Everyone is against me” 🕴
Conspired against, cheated, spied on, followed, poisoned, etc
What are grandiose delusions?
I’m gorgeous and super intelligent, that’s why people hate me💅🏻🧖🏻♀️🤳🏻💵
What are Reference Delusions?
“Getting messages in the headlines” 📺📻🗞
Ex: someone is putting secret messages in the soap operas just for me to tell me that the world is going to end
What are somatic delusions?
Feeling things in their body🕷🐍
Ex: “I can feel a snake in my belly and worms in my brain and the doctors just keep missing it, I know it’s there”
What is this:
“Sensory perceptions in absence of a stimulus”
hallucinations🧿
What is important to ask a patient if they have auditory hallucinations?
What do the voices say?🗣
Do they tell you to hurt yourself or others?🔪
Visual hallucinations are usually:
Shadows🕴
People appearing in mirrors or windows 💿
Tactile hallucinations are usually caused by _________
Substance abuse🚬
What is a very important possible cause of olfactory hallucinations?
Brain tumor🧠
If someone says they can taste poison in their food, what kind of hallucination is that?
Gustatory hallucination👅
What are some examples of disorganized speech?
Derailment, tangentiality
Incoherence, word salad
Neologisms
Echolalia
Blocking, paucity
What is tangential speech?
They kind of try to answer the question but they never actually get to it
What kind of speech is this:
Words are not related to each other
Word salad🥗
What is a neologism?
Creating new words
Ex: Brangelina, chillax, metrosexual
What is echolalia?
Repeating part of what you say back to them/
You: How are you doing today, joe?
Joe: how are you doing today joe
What would this be an example of:
The patient hears so many voices that when you talk to him, it takes him a moment to pick out what you said to him and answers you after a long pause
Paucity
What are some examples of disorganized or catatonic behavior?
Activity that is not goal directed (Ex: standing up from chair and reaching for nothing)
Unable to complete simple tasks
Immobility
Waxy flexibility
What is waxy flexibility?
You can move them into whatever position and they will just hold it
true or false:
Negative symptoms alone can be psychotic
False