chapter 22 psychiatry
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 anxiety | varying degrees of uneasiness, apprehension or dread often accompanied by palpitations, tightness in the chest, breathlessness, choking sensations |
| apathy | absence of emotions; lack of interest, emotional involvement or motivation |
| compulsion | uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeatedly |
| conversion | anxiety becomes a bodily symptom, such as blindless, deafness or paralysis that does not have physical basis |
| delusion | a fixed, false belief that cannot be changed by logical reasoning or evidence |
| dissociation | uncomfortble feeling are separated from their real object. in order to avoid mental distress, the feelings are redirected toward a second object or behavior pattern |
| euphoria | exaggerated feeling of well being |
| hallucinations | false or unreal sensory perception |
| labile | variable; undergoing rapid emotional change |
| mania | elation or irritability,associated with distractibility hyperactivity, talkativeness, injudicious acts, flight of ideas and racing thoughts |
| mutism | little speech and negative or minimal thoughts and behavior |
| obsession | an involuntary persistent idea or emotion; |
| paranoia | overly suspicious system of thinking; fixed delusion that one is being harassed , persecuted and unfairly treated |
| phobic disorders | characterized by irrational or debilitating fears associated with a specific object or situation, pt will go to extreme lenghts to avoid the fear |
| agoraphobia | fear of being in open, crowded , public places from which escape would be difficult or in which help might not be availabel |
| social phobia (social anxiety disorder) | fear of situations in which the affected person is open to public scrutiny |
| OCD | recurrent thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive acts that dominate the patients life |
| PTSD | dev. of sx following exposure to traumatic event |
| delirium | is an acute temporay disturbance of consciousness characterized by mental confusion and often psychotic symptoms |
| dementia | general more gradual loss of intellectual abilites that involves impairment of judgement |
| dissociative disorder | a condition involving breakdown in memory, identity or perception |
| cyclothymic disorder | a mild form of bipolar disorder characterized by a least 2 yrs of hypomania and numerous depressive episodes that do not meet the criteria that define a major depressive disorder |
| antisocial | no loyalty to or concern for others and without moral standards; acts only in response to desires and impulses; cannot tolerate frustrutation and blames other when he is at faut |
| borderline | instability interpersonal relationships and sense of self; characterized by alternating involvement with and rejection of ppl. franctic efforts are made to avoid real or imagined abandomnent |
| histronic | grandiose sense of self importance or uniqueness and preoccupation with fantasies of success and power. |
| schizoid | emotionally cold and aloof; indifferent to praise or critism or th the feelings of others few friendships and rarely appears to experience strong emotion such as anger or joy. |
| voyeurism | sexual excitement is achieved by observing unsuspecting ppl who are naked, undressing, or engaging in sexual activities |
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