Bipolar and Eating Disorders Review

Flashcards reviewing key vocabulary and concepts related to bipolar disorder and eating disorders from lecture notes.

Expressed Emotion (EE)

A family interaction pattern punctuated by hostility, criticism, and emotional overinvolvement that can negatively impact the course of bipolar disorder.

Course of Bipolar Disorder

Duration between mood episodes and number of mood episodes per year, which is significantly impacted by expressed emotion.

Diminishing Expressed Emotion through Family Therapy

Increases the duration of euthymia between mood episodes, diminishes the need for hospitalization, and reduces the number of mood episodes per year.

Mood Stabilizers

Lithium and Lamictal are mentioned as examples.

Prophylactic Treatment

Using medication to prevent the onset of new episodes.

Family Focused Therapy (FFT)

Occurs while people are still living at home or in college; focuses on psychoeducation and reducing expressed emotion in communication.

Euthymia

A state of emotional balance or stability.

Anorexia

Underweight for their developmental stage.

Anorexia Nervosa

A diagnosis requires being underweight, an intense fear of gaining weight or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain, and a disturbance in the way one's body weight or shape is experienced.

Anorexia Nervosa Restricting Type

Restriction of entire food groups, leading to very little variability in diet.

Overvaluation of body size and shape in self-evaluation

Important factor when diagnosing anorexia nervosa

Orthorexia

A focus on healthy eating taken to an extreme.

Medical Outcomes of Prolonged Anorexia Nervosa

The body growing fine, downy peach fuzz (lanugo), constipation, brittle hair, and sensitivity to cold.

Hormonal Disruption

Menstrual cycles are never typical or healthy to lose

Refeeding Syndrome

After a period of undernutrition, trying to restore weight too quickly can lead to a heart attack and death.

Driven Exercise

Associated with a worse prognosis (harder to treat) and higher levels of anxiety.