Mental Health Test 2

-comes from Greek word for split mind-psychotic symptoms withdrawal from interpersonal relationships-inability to think and communicate accurately-loss of ego boundaries and gross impairment in reality testing-Axis I-no difference related to race, social status, culture-affects 1% worldwide-cannot think abstractly-regression-ambivalence-autism (inability to relate to others)-loose association (illogical thought pattern)-has 4 phases: Schizoid personality, prodromal, schizophrenia, residual-usually develops in late teens/early 20s, later onset in women-must have symptoms for 6 months to diagnose-etiology= related to dopamine-Medication= Neuroleptics (antipsychotics)=block reuptake of dopamine in brain

They increase dopamine, which makes hallucinations worse

Genetic factors Enlargement in lateral ventricles in brain Cortical atrophy of gray matter in brain Decrease glucose usage in frontal lobe (decreased impulse control, judgment) Cerebellum atrophy Developmental factors and impact of environment What about anxiety? Hallucinations/delusions worsen with anxiety.
Viral infections Brain abnormalities Lupus Epilepsy Parkinson’s disease Change in sleep pattern

Severe mental disorder in which a person's ability to think, reason, respond and behave appropriately toward reality is impaired grossly enough to not meet the ordinary demands of life

Fixed thought or belief-not amendable to change-ideas of reference (equating trivial events and giving them personal reference)

Three most common delusions:-persecution-grandeur-somatic disorders

Made up words

Repeating phrases

Phrases of words without thought pattern
*different from looseness of association which HAS thought pattern

Meaningless rhyming of words

Refusal to speak

Sensory perception in the absence of external stimuli. May occur with any of the senses

1. Auditory- hear things (MOST COMMON, 80%)2. Visual- see something3. Olfactory- smell something 4. Gustatory- taste something5. Tactile- feel something

Being told to do something, "Go Kill"

Depersonalization= patient doesn't feel realDerealization= patient feels their environment is not real