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anxiety symptoms that have a sudden onset and increase in intensity over an approximately 10 – minute period
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Panic disorder
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How do you treat panic disorder?
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Anti-depressants:
SSRIs- Prozac or Paxil Tricyclics- Tofranil MAOI- Nardil Xanax |
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Treatment of OCD
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Clomipramine
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Anxiety lasting > 6 months, MC btwn 20-30 y/o (3rd decade)
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General Anxiety disorder
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How do you treat GAD?
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Cognitive and behavioral therapy
Benzodiazepines Buspar- for people who can't tolerate benzos |
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What is the duration of action of:
Ativan Xanax Librium |
Ativan-short
Xanax- Intermediate Librium-Long |
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What is the Klonopin used for? (long acting)
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Seizures
mania social phobia panic disorder |
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What is Dalmane used for?
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Insomnia
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How long must Sx last in order to classify the disorder as PTSD?
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> 1 month
If last only 2 days to 4 wks, then it's considered Acute Distress Disorder |
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Is Pharm therapy useful in PTSD?
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No, treat with psychotherapy although Imipramine, SSRIs and carbamazepine are sometimes used
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25 year-old woman has a history of unclear somatic complaints. She tells you that she has consulted many doctors but that they are unable to help her
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Somatoform disorder
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Abrupt, dramatic loss of motor or sensory function or organ of special sense
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Covnersion disorder
Can also present with Seizure and Globus hystericus (lump in the throat) |
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How can you treat Conversion disorder?
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hypnosis
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A patient is preoccupied with defects in appearance but has a normal appearance
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Body dysmorphic disorder
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Does plastic surgery or other medical treatment alleviates Sx of body dysmorphics?
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Rarely
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Patient experiences intense, prolonged pain with no physical cause
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pain disorder
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This disorder often coexists with a general medical condition ie. sarcoidosis, hepatitis
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Pain disorder
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Mental or physical illness to gain attention from medical personnel
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Factitious Disorder (Munchausen)
If you induce illness in another person, it's Munchausen by proxy) |
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Simulation of physical or mental illness for financial or other gain
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Malingering
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What are the 4 types of dissociative disorders?
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Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative fugue Dissociative identity disorder Depersonalization disorder |
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An inability to remember important information about oneself; leaves home and assumes a different identity
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Fugue
assoc with a h/o excessive alcohol use |
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How do you treat Dissoc. Fugue?
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Hypnosis and sodium amobarbital
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This disoder is assoc. with early traumatic experience,
usually abuse in childhood or adolescence Most commonly associated with incest |
Multiple personality disorder
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Person feels detached from their own body, talks in the 3rd person
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Depersonalization disoder
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How do you treat depersonalization disoder?
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SSRIs
Anti-anxiety Psychotherapy |
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Drug used to treat anxiety in the elderly
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Buspar
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What disorders can give you anxiety?
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Thyroid
Pheo Hypoglycemia Cardia arrythmias Mitral valve prolapse |
