Mental Illness, Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment

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“I don’t have a split personality and neither do I”

• “Doesn’t get along well with others” describes this type of behavior, in psychologist’s terms

• What is “anti-social behavior?”

• James Watson and B.F.Skinner were founding members of this type of psychology

• What is “Behavior Modification”or “Behaviorism?”

• (opposite of psychoanalysis; don’t try to understand patient’s behavior, just alter it by reinforcement and punishment like a rat)

• These two programs utilize the “12 step program” in a group therapy setting

• What are Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous?

• Two methods of erasing the delusions in a patient’s mind freeing him to gain sanity, although they can be dangerous and aggressive

• What are Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and Insulin Shock Therapy?

• The three main categories classifying all mental illnesses

• What are neuroses, psychoses and personality disorders?

• The group of the prior question in which the patient is clearly not lucid

• What are psychoses?

• OCD belongs to this group

• What are personality disorders?

• Phobias belong to this group

• What are personality disorders?

• The group to which multiple personalities belongs to

• What are personality disorders?

• The one to which schizophrenia belongs

• What are psychoses?

• Which type of substance abuse is clearly the fastest growing

• Prescription medications!

• The drug which is almost totally absorbed within 10 minutes of ingestion

• Ethanol

• The type of doctor you would visit if you were possessed of demons

• Voodoo doctor, witch doctor or Shaman

• He invented mass hypnosis

• Who was Dr. Franz Mesmer?

• The first mental institution recorded in history was founded by this great physician

• Who was Hippocrates?

• What Gene Cernan, Buzz Aldrin and Gus Grissom and Alan Sheppard all have in common

• All were part of the original U.S. Astronauts

• To be a hospital administrator,you’ll need this type of degree

• What is an MBA or Master of Business Administration?

• Where Davy Crockett and Colonel William Travis met along with Jim Bowie

• The Alamo in San Antonio; also where they all died

• Powdered adrenalin

• Cocaine

• What do people often do under the”Century Tree” at A & M University?

• Ask their sweetheart to marry them!

• The primary reason we have fewer mental institutions than ever in history

• Due to the development of successful antidepressive and antipsychotic medications

• How most antidepressants work

• They block the enzyme that cancels the neurotransmitters in our brains thus making us feel more elated or euphoric due to prolonged neurotransmitter stimulation

• Dream analysis and hypnosis are cornerstones of this method of treatment of mental illness

• What is psychoanalysis?

• She co-hosted the Academy awards last year with James Franco

• Who is Anne Hathaway?

• The only fabric made by a worm

• What is silk?

• An EKG device with a shocking extra function

• What is an AED or Automatic External Defibrillator?

• Wells, Simpson and Priestly are largely responsible for the development of this medical specialty

• What is anesthesiology?

• Pasteur and Koch are largely responsible for this specialty of science

• What is microbiology?

• Two early pioneers in behavior modification methods of treating mental illness

• Who were James Watson and B.F. Skinner?

• We wouldn’t have an organization to certify us in CPR if it wasn’t for her

• Who was Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross?

• Anorexia is most closely associated with this demographic group

• What are young, teenage females?

• Which gender is most likely to become victim of substance addiction?

• Females by far

• This alcoholic beverage has more than twice the ethanol content as beer

• What is wine?

• The expression “I don’t care” is often a warning sign of this emergent condition

• What is suicide (depression)?

• Soldiers returning from overseas wars are now often sent for this type of counseling

• What is group therapy (to avert suicides which were on the rise recently from veterans unable to adjust to non-stressful lives) from post traumatic stress disorder

• Her father gained world famous celebrity with his hit single (Achy, breaky heart)

• Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana), father/manager is Billy Ray Cyrus

• This town has Red Raiders while this town has Bears

• Lubbock has Texas Tech called the Red Raiders while Waco has the Baylor Bears

• Where you would find Koi in Houston

• Giant Japanese goldfish often found in ponds around Japanese restaurants and decorative ponds in parks.

• It’s capital is Vienna

• What is Austria (birthplace of Sigmund Freud)?

• Cirrhosis and stomach ulcers are often medical conditions resulting from this substance

• What is ethanol?

• Pieces of the tip of the nose and tongue turning gangrenous and self amputating are associated with abuse of this

• What is cocaine? (constricts blood vessels to skin of nose and to the tongue and becomes necrotic(dead) tissue from loss of blood supply, hence, falls off (HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!)

• Hepatitis C and HIV transmission are commonly associated with this abuse

• Heroin injection

• Illegal insecticides and fertilizers along with a loss of ambition are commonly associated with this substance

• Marijuana (illegal pot growers often use lead in their fertilizers/insecticides and DDT carcinogens as well). Brain damage either way along with cancer.

• Where you’d find Oz

• In the Emerald City, of course

• It’s a list or the Spanish for “everything?

• Todo or to do.

• He/she has a J.D. degree

• What is an attorney/lawyer?

• The river through Washington D.C.

• The Potomac

• The river through Istanbul

• The Bosporos

• The river through London

• The Thames

• The river through Paris

• The Seine

• The degree a psychiatrist has and the one a psychologist doctor has

• MD is a psychiatrist and PhD for a psychologist (no prescriptions for the PhD)

• The river of Vienna

• The Danube

• Adderral and Ritalin are commonly used for this disorder

• Attention deficit disorder

• The river through NYC

• The Hudson

• The two business letters associated with a portfolio

• A cover letter explaining what the portfolio is for and a letter of reference, three actually

• The river of Germany

• The Rhein

• The two risks of viral transmission from untested blood samples years ago

• Hepatitis and HIV (don’t worry, all blood is tested for both today so zero chance)

• How one feels when confronted with conflict

• Anxious (anxiety is the result of a conflict that seems impossible to resolve)

• One method we commonly see as a non-adaptive method of coping with stress from conflict/anxiety

• Nail biting, OCD, daydreaming, suicide, drug use, phobias, insomnia, etc.etc. (methods that don’t solve the problem causing anxiety but we do them anyway are called “NON ADAPTIVE” coping methods)

• The river of New Orleans

• The Mississippi

• You overdose a patient on insulin causing severe insulin shock/diabetic coma; your treatment must immediately include this

• Sugar! (glucose), the insulin cleared the victim’s blood of all sugar so brain shut down

• In psychological terms, a method of coping with stress that actually solves the conflict causing it, is known as this…

• “Adaptive” or “functional behavior”: These methods actually solve the problem like counseling, talking with friends, meditation, group discussions, support groups, hypnosis to find the cause of your anxiety; All are ADAPTIVE methods for the bring you closer to solving the problem.

• To reduce the spread of flu, we owe this doctor of 19th century medical history a lot of credit based on the advise the CDC is now giving us

• Dr. Joseph Lister

• What do you call a violent criminal who steps on your Trix and Cheerios and then your Captain Crunch?

• A “Cereal” killer!

• The terms “lunacy” and “Hysteria” have history from the middle ages and the primitive understanding of mental illness; what are their roots?

• Luna, goddess of the moon, was thought to cause women to have monthly madness (AKA PMS) due to her influence and

• A female got “hysterical” since only they possessed a womb (“hyster) and men never were, therefore, hysterical. Of course, all the doctors were men!

• This type of medication enhances brain function by blocking the enzyme (adrenalinase) that inactivates adrenalin as a neurotransmitter

• What is an antidepressant like Prozac, Zoloft, Wellbutrin and Lexipro?

• It’s a disease name used in healthcare, to describe disorders we imagine or create for ourselves psychosomatically when we don’t know what else do diagnose it as

• Baron Von Munchhausen’s disease

• A training tool used to teach first year psychology students the principles of learning using this box and a lab rat

• A Skinner box has an electric grid floor, a couple of colored lights and a reward lever and dispenser.

• That a virus/germ causes swine flu, we owe this monumental discovery to this man

• Louis Pasteur and/or Robert Koch for their “Germ Theory” as the cause of each disease

• “I could have been a great ballet dancer but I married you” is a coping method one might use. What is this type of method called?

• Rationalization; finding easy explanations for one’s failures by blaming others (rational lies) Maladaptive method of coping with failure

• A coping mechanism that really doesn’t function to solve the conflict and its stress but we do it anyway is known as this….

• What is dysfunctional or non adaptive behavior?

• A group of medications that literally means “against life”

• What are Anti-Biotics?

• Retinopathy, polyuria, polydipsia and peripheral neuropathy are all signs of this disorder

• What is diabetes mellitis?

• Retinopathy=diseased retina=blindness

• Peripheral neuropathy=numb feet=foot ulcers

• Polydipsia=always thirsty

• Polyuria=can’t stop urinating

• The typical demographic profile for suicide in the U.S.

• Middle aged, Caucasian, male

• This behavior has now surpassed ethanol consumption as the primary causative factor in fatal traffic accidents in the U.S.

• Cell phone texting…………..OMG

• The ultimate surgical method of treating the terminally mentally sick

• Frontal lobotomy

• Four medical schools in the nearby Houston area and nearby environs

• UT, Baylor, UH and UTMB (Galveston)

• Five nursing schools in the Houston area

• HCC (Coleman school), HBU, Wharton nursing school (Sugar Land), TWU in medical center, UTMB Galveston

This party’s name has its origin in the word to “stroll or walk” with grace.

• A promenade or “prom”

• He wrote “The Great Gatsby”

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• You want to deal with the emotional trauma in helping families in crisis using your psychology knowledge and skills in counseling; what degree/profession would you seek?

• Social worker, Masters of Social Work

• Her first born child she named “Starter”, the second “In Between.” She had a hysterectomy after the next one so she called him “………

• The END