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Chronic stress
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Suppresses the immune system. What is stressful is objective, and depends on you.
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Stressor
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Anything that causes stress.
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Acute stress:
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Sudden, short term, intense (like a headache)
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Chronic stress
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Long-term, long-lasting, bad relationship
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Type A Personalities:
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Ambitious; more prone to heart disease, impatient & time urgent, competitive, cynically hostile/pissy people
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2004 studies:
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Have shown that cynically hostile people are more likely to get heart disease.
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Type B Personalities:
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Relaxed & Carefree
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Adjustment disorder:
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Identifiable stressor then an emotional or behavioral response
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:
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onsidered an anxiety disorder; identify a stressor of intense fear. Reasons for PTSD to occur/have an event: Exposure to a traumatic event; must have a re-experiencing of the traumatic event, avoidance of things that remind them of the event; can be acute or chronic; recognized as people who are on guard all the time or easily scared; must be at least 1 month to be PTSD.
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Treatment for PTSD:
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Support groups & Direct Exposure Therapy
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Types of panic disorders:
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PTSD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder with or without agoraphobia, specific phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder:
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Feeling intense, worried; nervous; direct exposure therapy needed and or medication. Drugs can cause unintentional overdose.
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Specific phobias:
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Irrational fear of a specific object or situation. Symptoms: Fear. Treatment: Relaxation & Exposure therapy
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Obsessive-Compulsive disorder:
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Obsession: Persistent, unwanted thoughts. Compulsion: Repetitive behaviors that the person feels driven to perform. Treatment: Behavior therapy/anti-depressants.
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Mood disorders:
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Major depressive disorders, dysthmyic disorder, seasonal affective disorder, bipolar affective disorder, cyclothmic disorder
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Major depressive disorder:
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Sad mood, loss of interest, feelings of guilt, worthlessness, hopelessness; change in sleep or appetite; impaired concentration, thoughts of suicide. Treatment: Medication & therapy. Using both seems to work best on individual. Must have 5 or more for 2 weeks to be major depression.
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Reactive depression
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Because of life events
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Endogenous:
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No reason, biological
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Dysthmic disorder
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Mild, chronic depression. Sad mood, lost of interest, decreased energy; impaired concentration; feeling of guilt, worthlessness, hopelessness, change in sleep or appetite, thoughts of suicide. Treatment: Medication or therapy. “Chronic, low grade funk.” Must last for at least 2 years.
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Seasonal Affective Disorder:
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Sad mood, mild depression. Treatment: Light box, exposure to sun light.
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Bipolar Affective Disorder:
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Lows are just like depression. Highs: High energy, days without sleep, racing thoughts. Treatment: Mood stabilizer. NEVER antidepressants. Only in bipolar is there a history of manic, and there only has to be one episode of manic to be considered bipolar.
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Suicide:
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Nationally, one suicide every 17 minutes. Three red flags of suicide are a) thoughts of suicide, b a) plan, c) a means to a plan.
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Cyclothmic disorder:
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Low grade bipolar; same as bipolar just not as extreme; treatment unknown.
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Women & Suicide/Men & Suicide
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Women attempt suicide more often than men but men complete it more often than women.
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What percentage of suicidal individuals have clearly communicated their plan?
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40%
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What percentage of suicidal individuals have hinted at their plan?
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30%
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Most people who commit suicide...
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... don't really want to die; they just want the pain to end.
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Somatoform disorder-
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a group of disorders that involve physical symptoms and complaints with out any evidence of physical pathology.
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Hypochondrasis:
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Preoccupation with fears of getting a serious disease based on the misinterpretation of bodily symptoms. The preoccupation exists despite medical evaluation and reinsurance.
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Treatment for hypochondriac:
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Therapy
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Psychogenic pain disorder:
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Real pain caused by psychological factors
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Treatment for psychogenic pain disorder:
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Relaxation therapy, medication
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Malingering
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Faking symptoms and is motivated by some external incentive. Treatment: Therapy
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Factitious
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Faking symptoms for no real incentive.
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Treatment for factitious:
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psychological therapy
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Body dysmorfic disorder
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Finding something wrong with your self-image but is excessive
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