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A comprehensive overview of key mental health concepts, including schizophrenia, stress management, and substance abuse. It delves into the symptoms, causes, and treatment approaches for various mental health conditions, highlighting the importance of nursing interventions in managing these conditions. The document also explores the impact of stress on mental health and provides insights into coping strategies. Additionally, it covers substance abuse, including heroin use, alcohol dependence, and opioid overdose, outlining the signs, symptoms, and management strategies for these conditions.
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Anhedonia inability to experience pleasure Akathisia motor restlessness Apathy a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest Alogia Use different words .pick up shoes and think it's a pen Affect to influence
Asociality lack of interest in social interactions Positive signs of schizophrenia Actual sign of them having psychosis. Behavior actions and something added to their life and event like hallucinations, delusion Negative signs of schizophrenia All the A's. something that they have removed like social interaction and being active in a job tartive dyskinesia Involuntary movement of the facial muscles, limbs, and tongue; possible side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs (med induced )puffing of cheeks first sign facial movement or lip smacking not reversible Types of meds Haldol,ablify, amitriptyline, lithium
Fever really high temp, autonomic nervous system gets wonky wide, blood pressure, variation, and sweating a lot,muscle What is eps extrapyramidal symptoms What is an emergency Elevated temp What is eps symptoms Muscle stiffness tremors, broad rage of movement disorders, f(general body like legs and arms ) tardive dyskinesia The develops after long-term medication use longer terms (face ) fight or flight response the initial reaction of the body to stress during the alarm stage
How does your body respond to stress With the sympathetic nervous system, fight or fight. Body reacts the same way every time Chronic stress can cause Heart disease and impairs immune system elevated epinephrine and glucose steroids supress the immune system. More likely to get sick and develop cancer all the time. High blood pressure infertility anything 😔 If you don't manage stress well it can (Outward)Become anger, or aggression violence to others(abuse) or internal where you turn it on yourself when suicidal thoughts come into play🌶️ (inward) mechasmo Toxic masculinity Maladaptive coping Abuse, personality disorders, aggression, and violence, anger attacking others because of stress
Elderly abuse Stealing sos checks, negligence,physical injury,no food, Sucide facts pg317 Morrison sucide facts If they say they gon kill themselves believe them Children are at risk due to bullying Sucide myths Depressed or psychotic take their own life Manipulation Don't share they taking their life Survivor guilt guilt felt by family and friends after a death What is psychosis? loss of contact with reality
Types of psychosis Paranoid schizophrenia Mnifestations for paranoid schizophrenia Pranoid about everything think everybody is trying to get them don't trust nobody very suspicious. Looking over shoulders, withdrawal and don't trust food other prepare for them How do you response to somebody that says they don't want to eat their food because it's poison Everyone is eating it and nobody is getting sick. Reduce their paranoia word salad Making a salad throwing ingredients together and mixed up so body talking about things and won't make sense Flight of ideas rapidly changing or disjointed thoughts
Personal choice like dying with dignity Parasucdial behaviours Attempts at sucide with a low likihood of success like practice Counter-transference The nurse transferred her feelings onto a patient Transference in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent) crisis intervention Stop the crisis in the moment Know your meds Amitriptyline use
Seizure, antipsychoticosis, sleep ,preventative migraine headaches Understand side effect and nursing intervention week 5- 7 Antubuse (disulfram)
Heroin Use Signs Constricted pupils Depression Euphoria Respiratory depression Drowsiness Over dose heroin Shallow respirations Clammy skin Convulsion Coma Heroin withdrawal Watery eyes Runny nose Sweating Muscle cramps Loss of appetite, nausea Chills Tremors
Panic Overdose taking an excessive amount of a drug that leads to coma or death Habituation an organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it Various categories for substand (Depressant)opiants,Alcohol, (uppers)Cocain, crack, and amphetamine withdrawal symptoms Usually opposite of what the drug does How do we mange alcohol overdoes Fatal, lead to seizure or death usually given benzodiazepines tapper off. Restriction, How do we manage opioid overdose
Korsakov Mokeke syndrome Because of low thyamin level(abuse of alcohol lead to thamine deficiency) cause brain damage What is the half life for heroin 6 - 8 hours Narcan to leave? 30mins leave really quickly so give them more How to elevate dopamine level Eat chocolate, after exam you feel happy
