Mental health

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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Pre 1960

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• isolation, lobotomies, electroconvulsive shock therapy

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Post 1960

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• drugs, therapy, de-institutionalization

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1955

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• Spear’s chiropractic hospital very successful with mental disease

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Theory of reasoned action

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perception + family/friends + beliefs = action

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Communication is based on

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speech, eye contact, body language, body contact, and language

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Funneling is

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combination of open ended and direct questions

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Hostility has a strong connection to

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chronic heart disease

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Non-reversible deterioration of cognition and behavior

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Dementia

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Often reversible acute confusion that may fluctuate

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Delirium

#10

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Euthymic =

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good/normal

#11

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Bipolar disease

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Mania (necessary) and melancholia mood swings • usually appears at 20 years of age • potato chip disease = elevated obesity, HTN, DM, hyperlipidemia • Tx: lithium, drug stabilizers, mood charting

#12

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Cyclothymic

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• causes hypomanic & mild depressive episodes

#13

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Unipolar disease

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• most common affect disorder (mood disorder) • 50% are misdiagnosed/unrecognized, self inflicted injureis • high incidence of: alzheimers, DM, parkinsons, heart, stroke, cancer, HIV, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain • medications contribute: blood pressure, hormones, and anti-biotics • more prominent in females, reoccurence is common

#14

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Major depression is _ weeks of at least _ of the following symptoms:

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• 2 weeks of 4 symptoms from the following list: • – loss of appetite • – insomnia • – agitation • – worthlessness • – suicidal • – poor concentration

#15

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Dysthymia

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• similar to depression - diagnosis is 2 years of at least 3 symptoms from the list of depression symptoms

#16

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Treatment for both depression and dysthymia:

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• personal therapy • drugs • ECT • nutrition • B6 = metabolizes tryptophan to serotonin • magnesium • vitamin D • calcium • omega 3

#17

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Seasonal Affect Disorder

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Tx: light, exercise, comfort foods

#18

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Psychotic

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• schizophrenia: young adults are more commonly affected • reality is altered, episodic, perception is altered, hallucinations • alogia: poverty of speech • avolition: lack of purposeful action or motivation

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Schizophrenic type: disorganized

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• older term was hebephrenic - unpredictable mood shifts

#20

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Schizophrenic type: catatonic

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• rigid posture • expressions flat affect (no expression for emotions) • masked facies

#21

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Schizophrenic type: paranoid

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• delusions of persecution

#22

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Schizophrenic type: schizophreniform

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• adolescent/young adult onset • contradictory messages • short event (6 months)

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Schizophrenic type: paraphrenia

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• geriatric

#24

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Psychopath

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• old term • no regard for self or others • abnormal lack of empathy • verbal therapy not effective** • strong amoral conduct masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal