Saturday, June 25, 2016

Paranoia   
 A person may believe that friends, family, government agencies, or others are trying to bother him or harm him even when it is not true.
 Example:  Andre is convinced that his roommate is trying to poison his food and refuses to eat anything that he does not prepare himself.


Thought broadcasting. A person may believe that other people can hear or read her thoughts.
 Example:  Tamika has been avoiding her friends because she believes they can read her thoughts, especially when she is angry or thinking about something embarrassing.

Thought insertion. A person may have thoughts that feel foreign to him and seem as if they have been inserted by an outside force or person.
 Example: John has been finding himself thinking of highly offensive comments about women that he would never say out loud.  He is convinced that his cell phone is somehow implanting these thoughts in his mind.

Grandiose/religious delusions
A person may develop a belief that she has a supernatural power, is famous, or that she is the messiah or a chosen person with a special mission.
 Example:  Julietta believes that she owns the internet and has been chosen by God to save the world by deciphering codes on web pages.

euphoria
a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.


cyclothymia
a mental state characterized by marked swings of mood between depression and elation; bipolar disorder.


cyclothymic disorder, moods swing between short periods of mild depression and hypomania, an elevated mood. The low and high mood swings never reach the severity of major depression or full mania. People with cyclothymic disorder have milder symptoms than occur in full-blown bipolar disorder.


Somatization disorder (also Briquet's syndrome) is a mental disorder characterized by recurring, multiple, and current, clinically significant complaints about somatic symptoms


Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes ungovernable emotional excess. Generally, modern medical professionals have abandoned using hysteria as a diagnostic category, replacing it with more precisely defined categories, such as somatization disorder.


Bulimia nervosa, also known as simply bulimia, is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging. Binge eating refers to eating a large amount of food in a short amount of time. Purging refers to the attempts to get rid of the food consumed. This may be done by vomiting or taking laxatives. Other efforts to lose weight may include the use of diuretics, stimulants, water fasting, or excessive exercise.] Most people with bulimia are at a normal weight.


BMI
20 to 24 normal
25 to 29 over weight
30 to 39 obese
 more than 40 morbid obese


thought disorder
a disorder of cognitive organization, characteristic of psychotic mental illness, in which thoughts and conversation appear illogical and lacking in sequence and may be delusional or bizarre in content.


Thought disorder (TD) or formal thought disorder (FTD) refers to disorganized thinking as evidenced by disorganized speech. Specific thought disorders include derailment, poverty of speech, tangentiality, illogicality, perseveration, neologism, and thought blocking.

Pressure of speech is a tendency to speak rapidly and frenziedly, as if motivated by an urgency not apparent to the listener


idiosyncrotic alcohol intoxication as known as pathlohical alcohol intoxication due yo LITTLE AMOUNT OF ALCOJOL
Pathological alcohol intoxication is an extraordinary severe response to alcohol, especially to small amounts marked by apparently senseless violent behavior, usually followed by exhaustion, sleep and amnesia for the episode.


Intermittent explosive disorder (sometimes abbreviated as IED) is a behavioral disorder characterized by explosive outbursts of anger and violence, often to the point of rage, that are disproportionate to the situation at hand (e.g., impulsive screaming triggered by relatively inconsequential events). Impulsive aggression is unpremeditated, and is defined by a disproportionate reaction to any provocation, real or perceived. Some individuals have reported affective changes prior to an outburst (e.g., tension, mood changes, energy changes, etc.).[1]

Asperger syndrome (AS) is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.[1] It is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and differs from other disorders by relatively normal language and intelligence.[2] Although not required for diagnosis, physical clumsiness and unusual use of language are common


Malingering is fabricating or exaggerating the symptoms of mental or physical disorders for a variety of "secondary gain" motives, which may include financial compensation (often tied to fraud); avoiding school, work or military service; obtaining drugs;


conversion disorder
present with neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, which are not consistent with a well-established organic cause, and which cause significant distress. It is thought that these symptoms arise in response to stressful situations affecting a patient's mental health or an ongoing mental health condition such as depression


Autobiographical memory is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place) and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory.


Buprenorphine is used to treat dependence/addiction to narcotics (opioids). Buprenorphine belongs to a class of drugs called mixed narcotic agonist-antagonists. It helps prevent withdrawal symptoms caused by stopping other opiate-type narcotics. It is used as part of a complete treatment program for drug abuse (such as compliance monitoring, counseling, behavioral contract, lifestyle changes).

Naltrexone is a drug that reverses the effects of opioids and is used primarily in the management of alcohol dependence and opioid dependence


Melancholic depression, or depression with melancholic features, is a DSM-IV subtype of clinical depression requiring at least one of the following symptoms: Anhedonia (the inability to find pleasure in positive things) Lack of mood reactivity (i.e. mood does not improve in response to positive events)


Melancholic depression, or depression with melancholic features, is a DSM-IV subtype of clinical depression requiring at least one of the following symptoms: Anhedonia (the inability to find pleasure in positive things) Lack of mood reactivity (i.e. mood does not improve in response to positive events)



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