Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia

Depression symptoms

1) Sad most of the time 2) Lose joy in things 3) +/- weight 4) +/- sleep 5) Trouble focusing 6) Feeling worthless 7) Extreme emotions (lethargic) 8) Loss of energy 9) Thoughts of death

Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression)

When mood changes radically from normal to depressed, to manic.

Schizophrenia

The most serious and dangerous of all mental illnesses. Nicknamed the “thinking disease”. Effects everything seen, sensed, moved, and pondered. It distorts reality

Treatment

Involves strong medications. They can cause impotence, lose please, and can’;t focus. You can become depressed

Medical Paradox

Meds do help and schizophrenics get better. They think they are better and stop along meds because of the side affects. They than crash and it comes back worse than ever

Cause

Heredity (Nature) and Environment (Nurture). People who experience difficult and hard lived lives are more likely to experience skitz

Diathesis Stress Hypothesis

People have a predisposition for skits. It gets triggered by the environment

Hallucinations

When you sense things that are not there. The brain betrays and you hear voices /see things

Delusions

Irrational beliefs.

Scrambled Speech or Movement

This includes shaking, stuttering, mumbling, jerky movements, loss of balance, loss of control of bowel movements, can’t tell temperature, or can’t control volume

Loss of Social Skills

Talks and yells at the wrong times

Catatonic States

Victim goes into motionless coma like state

Catatonic Schizophrenia

Gets catatonic states (slow and waxy movement)

Disorganized Schizophrenia

Speech and movements are scrambled. Move in jerky fashion

Paranoid Schizophrenia

Get delusions and hallucinations. Brain makes up a story line. Dangerous

Undifferentiated Schizophrenia

Two or more forms of schizophrenia

Residual Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is in remission