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Anxiety Disorder |
Primary feature is abnormal or inappropriate anxiety. Features include increased heart rate, tended muscles. Normal part of flight or fight (protection or flee). Problem when occur with recognisable stimulus or when stimulus does not warrant reaction. Heart races, increased breathing, muscles tense without reason. If not medical could be anxiety. Disorders such as acute stress disorder, agoraphobia (with or without history of panic), GAD, OCD, Panic disorder, phobias. |
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Anxiety definitions |
DSMIV- marked/persistent unreasonable or excessive fear. Exposure to phobic stimulus provokes immediate anxiety response. Recognises fear as excessive. Phobic situation avoided and disrupts every day life, lasted over 6 months in person under 18. ICD-10- anxiety manifests in psych/Phys symptoms and not linked to delusions Must be restricted to particular object/situation. Avoided wherever possible. |
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Schizophrenia (Psychotic) |
DSMIV- Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganised speech and behaviour, plus social occupation dysfunction, 6 months duration and no other explaination. ICD-10- thought echo, delusions of control, halluncinatory voices, incoherent speech, catatonic beh., marked apathy, reduction in quality of some aspects of personal beh., delusions firmly held due to disortions of exaggerations of reasoning, misinterpretations of perceptions or experiences. Disorganised speech. |
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Affective disorder |
Predominantly affect mood and have effect on thoughts, behaviours and emotions. Mood disorders. Include unipolar depressions, dysthymia, bipolar, schizoaffective disorder and atypical depression. Depression- 11m people suffer. Affective disorder characterised by disturbances of mood. Unusual for persons mood to alter- more marked and accompanied by other symptoms). Distinction between reactive and endogenous depression, fundamental mood change (depression or mania), bipolar (fluctuation), dysthmia (chronic depression) at least 2 years. Cyclothymia- milder bipolar. SAD. |
