RST 230 EXAMS 3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
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✔✔bipolar disorder (manic depression) - ✔✔manic phase:
The high phase, being on cloud nine, filled with ideas, social, spending a lot of money,
overconfidence, fast and loud speaking, aggression, irritability, invincible
depression phase:
✔✔schizophrenia - ✔✔a psychological disorder characterized by delusions,
hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional
expression
psychotic illness in which people experience hallucinations, abnormal emotions,
impaired thinking, and behavioral changes
✔✔thought disorders - ✔✔diminished ability to think clearly, disorganized thinking that
manifests itself in disorganized speech
✔✔delusions - ✔✔belief in something that is not there
✔✔paranoid delusion - ✔✔believing something is after you, someone is spying, or
someone is trying to arrest you
✔✔broadcasting - ✔✔belief that other people can hear your thoughts
✔✔hallucinations - ✔✔hear it, see it, and feel it
✔✔generalized anxiety disorder - ✔✔-excessive, unrealistic worry that lasts 6 months or
more and physical symptoms
Amygdala
, Fight or flight stress all the time, not being able to calm yourself down
✔✔panic disorder - ✔✔Severe attacks of panic and physical symptoms
Heart attack symptoms:
Trembling
Sweating
Fear of dying
Heart rate goes up
✔✔social anxiety disorder - ✔✔Extreme anxiety about being judged by others or
behaving in a way that may cause embarrassment or ridicule + physical symptoms
Symptoms:
Sweaty
Avoidance features - lack of eye contact
Increased heart rate
Red face - blushing
✔✔phobias - ✔✔Intense fear reaction to a specific object or situation
✔✔obsessive compulsive disorder - ✔✔Persistent, recurring thoughts (obsessions) that
may lead to performing a routine
✔✔body dysmorphic disorder - ✔✔a person cannot stop thinking about a minor or
imagined flaw in his/her appearance. It causes significant distress and impacts a
person's ability to function in daily life
✔✔ptsd - ✔✔post traumatic stress disorder
follows an exposure to a traumatic event
Causes:
Combat
Car accidents
Sexual assault
Child abuse
Spousal abuse
Symptoms:
Flinching
Avoid place where it happened
Nightmares / flashbacks
alcohol/substance abuse
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✔✔bipolar disorder (manic depression) - ✔✔manic phase:
The high phase, being on cloud nine, filled with ideas, social, spending a lot of money,
overconfidence, fast and loud speaking, aggression, irritability, invincible
depression phase:
✔✔schizophrenia - ✔✔a psychological disorder characterized by delusions,
hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional
expression
psychotic illness in which people experience hallucinations, abnormal emotions,
impaired thinking, and behavioral changes
✔✔thought disorders - ✔✔diminished ability to think clearly, disorganized thinking that
manifests itself in disorganized speech
✔✔delusions - ✔✔belief in something that is not there
✔✔paranoid delusion - ✔✔believing something is after you, someone is spying, or
someone is trying to arrest you
✔✔broadcasting - ✔✔belief that other people can hear your thoughts
✔✔hallucinations - ✔✔hear it, see it, and feel it
✔✔generalized anxiety disorder - ✔✔-excessive, unrealistic worry that lasts 6 months or
more and physical symptoms
Amygdala
, Fight or flight stress all the time, not being able to calm yourself down
✔✔panic disorder - ✔✔Severe attacks of panic and physical symptoms
Heart attack symptoms:
Trembling
Sweating
Fear of dying
Heart rate goes up
✔✔social anxiety disorder - ✔✔Extreme anxiety about being judged by others or
behaving in a way that may cause embarrassment or ridicule + physical symptoms
Symptoms:
Sweaty
Avoidance features - lack of eye contact
Increased heart rate
Red face - blushing
✔✔phobias - ✔✔Intense fear reaction to a specific object or situation
✔✔obsessive compulsive disorder - ✔✔Persistent, recurring thoughts (obsessions) that
may lead to performing a routine
✔✔body dysmorphic disorder - ✔✔a person cannot stop thinking about a minor or
imagined flaw in his/her appearance. It causes significant distress and impacts a
person's ability to function in daily life
✔✔ptsd - ✔✔post traumatic stress disorder
follows an exposure to a traumatic event
Causes:
Combat
Car accidents
Sexual assault
Child abuse
Spousal abuse
Symptoms:
Flinching
Avoid place where it happened
Nightmares / flashbacks
alcohol/substance abuse
