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Psychology Consultant
4y ago
Delirium is characterized by disorientation, recent memory loss, and a clouding of consciousness. A delirious person has difficulty focusing, sustaining, or shifting attention. These signs arise suddenly, within several hours or days. They fluctuate over the course of a day and often become worse at night, a condition known as sundowning. The duration of these signs is short-rarely more than a month. Delirious patients are often agitated or frightened. They may also experience disrupted sleep-wake cycles, incoherent speech, illusions, and hallucinations.
The signs of delirium usually fol ..read more
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4y ago
The most common cause is Alzheimer's disease. Dementia due to Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia and accounts for 55 to 80 percent of all dementias. Alzheimer's demeforentias typically begin with mild memory loss, but as the disease progresses, the memory loss and disorientation quickly become profound. About two-thirds of alzheimer's patients show psychiatric symptoms, including agitation, irritability, apathy, and dysphoria. As the disease worsens, people may become violent and experience hallucinations and delusions ..read more
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4y ago
Panic Disorder People with panic disorder experience sudden bursts of anxiety symptoms, feel out of control, and think they are dying. They may have an overreactive autonomic nervous system, which easily goes into a fight-or-flight response. They also may tend to catastrophize their symptoms. Antidepressant and antianxiety drugs can reduce symptoms of panic, and cognitive-behavioral treatments are effective for panic disorder
Some people with panic disorder have many attacks in a short period of time, such as every day for a week, then go for weeks or months without having another attac ..read more
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4y ago
Schizophrenia
There are two categories of symptoms. Positive symptoms, all called type I symptoms, are characterized by the presence of unusual perceptions, thoughts, or behaviours. Positive refers to the fact that these symptoms represent very salient experiences. In contrast, Negative symptoms, or type II symptoms, represent losses or deficits in certain domain. They involve the absence of behaviors, rather than the presence of behaviors.
1) Positive Symptoms
The positive symptoms of schizophrenia include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thought and speech, and disorganized or ..read more
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4y ago
We will consider three groups of phobias 1) Agoraphobia 2) Specific Phobias 3) Social Phobia Phobia Agoraphobia The term Agoraphobia is from the Greek for "fear of the marketplace." People with Agoraphobia fear crowded, bustling place, such as the marketplace or, in our times, the shopping mall. They also fear enclosed spaces, such as buses, subways, or elevators. Finally, they fear wide open spaces, such as open fields, particularly if they are alone. In general, people with Agoraphobia fear any places where they might have trouble escaping or getting help in an emergency. The emergency that ..read more
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4y ago
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Psychodynamic
Three kinds of anxiety realistic, neurotic, and moral. Realistic Anxiety occurs when we face a real danger or threat, such as oncoming tornado. Neurotic Anxiety occurs when we are repeatedly prevented from expressing our id impulses. The energy of those impulses is not allowed release, and it causes anxiety. For example, a person who feels he can never act on his sexual urges may experience neurotic anxiety. Moral Anxiety occurs when we have been punished for expressing our id impulses, and we come to associate those impulses with punishment, causi ..read more