| Illnesses |
How well defined are psychiatric illnesses?
What does it mean when somebody says that they have a nervous
breakdown?
Hans Selye, MD, the Canadian researcher, pioneered research on stress. He discovered
stress of any kind, good or bad, adds up. Too little or too much stress is not good. When a
person is under constant stress and it exceeds their limit, they have a breakdown.
What is the 9-midnight phenomena?
Often people psychiatrically impaired folks included, become lonely in the wee hours of the
night. They experience a sharp pang of lonely feelings-both anxious and depressed
What is milieu therapy?
Do people grow out of schizophrenia? Mostly No
Depression? Maybe
Bipolar? No
ADHD? Occasionally
What is akathisia?
Inner feeling of mental and physical agitation and tension. It can be an unbearable feeling.
What is the Rule of 3?
The physician should consider the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in patients with
depression who also present with 1 or more of the following:
3 major depressive episodes
3 failed marriages
3 failed antidepressants
3 first-degree relatives with affective illness
3 generations of family history for affective illness
3 family members eminent in field
3 simultaneous jobs
Proficiency in 3 languages (for US-born citizens)
3 distinct professions (exercised simultaneously)
3 comorbid anxiety diagnoses
Triad of past histrionic, psychopathic, or borderline diagnoses
Triad of trait "mood liability," "energy activity," and "daydreaming"
Flamboyance expressed in a triad of bright colors
3 substances of abuse
3 impulse-control behaviors
Simultaneous dating of 3 individuals
What does it mean when somebody says that they have a nervous
breakdown?
Hans Selye, MD, the Canadian researcher, pioneered research on stress. He discovered
stress of any kind, good or bad, adds up. Too little or too much stress is not good. When a
person is under constant stress and it exceeds their limit, they have a breakdown.
What is the 9-midnight phenomena?
Often people psychiatrically impaired folks included, become lonely in the wee hours of the
night. They experience a sharp pang of lonely feelings-both anxious and depressed
What is milieu therapy?
Do people grow out of schizophrenia? Mostly No
Depression? Maybe
Bipolar? No
ADHD? Occasionally
What is akathisia?
Inner feeling of mental and physical agitation and tension. It can be an unbearable feeling.
What is the Rule of 3?
The physician should consider the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in patients with
depression who also present with 1 or more of the following:
3 major depressive episodes
3 failed marriages
3 failed antidepressants
3 first-degree relatives with affective illness
3 generations of family history for affective illness
3 family members eminent in field
3 simultaneous jobs
Proficiency in 3 languages (for US-born citizens)
3 distinct professions (exercised simultaneously)
3 comorbid anxiety diagnoses
Triad of past histrionic, psychopathic, or borderline diagnoses
Triad of trait "mood liability," "energy activity," and "daydreaming"
Flamboyance expressed in a triad of bright colors
3 substances of abuse
3 impulse-control behaviors
Simultaneous dating of 3 individuals
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