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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