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NUR 326 Exam 2
- The observable response a person has to his or her own feelings
- Lack of feelings, emotions, interests, or concern.
Answer Affect
Answer Apathy
- Any observable, recordable, and measurable act, movement, or response.-
Answer Behavior
- Great happiness and exhiliration
Answer Elation
- Four signs of affective instability (mood disturbance)
Answer
- Agitation
- Sadness
- Elation (Great happiness)
- Blunting (Showing little to no emotion, monotone voice, unusually brief responses)
- Showing little to no emotion, monotone voice, unusually brief responses
Answer - Blunting
- The complex process during the period of grief and mourning. During this time, people
often experience fluctuating thoughts that occur in intense waves. We know from our own experience that significant losses are never forgotten. As time goes on, the painful feelings become less intense and more manageable.
Answer Bereavement
- Who is the greatest expert on a patient's mood?
Answer 1 / 4
The patient
- In this stage, grieving people are unable or unwilling to accept that the loss has taken (or
will shortly take) place. It can feel as though they are experiencing a bad dream, that the loss is unreal, and they are waiting to "wake up" as though from a dream, expecting that things will be normal.
Answer Denial
- In this stage, people beg their "higher power" to undo the loss, saying things along the
lines of, "I'll change if you bring her (or him) back to me".This phase usually involves promises of better behavior or significant life changes which will be made in exchange for the reversal of the loss.
Answer Bargaining
- Subjective feeling and affect that follows a loss
Answer Grief
- The process by which grief is resolved
Answer Mourning
- Survivors repeatedly want to reunite with the person who died in some way, and may even
want to die themselves in order to be with their loved one. Normal expression of grief.
Answer Yearnings
- Examples of disturbed vegetative functioning. (3)
Answer
- eating
- sleeping
- menstruation
- Which neurotransmitters of the brain are disturbed with a mood disorder?
(3)
Answer
- Dopamine
- Norepinephrine
- Serotonin
- Which two populations are at greatest risk for a mood disorder? 2 / 4
Answer
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Answer
- Females
- Individuals in the second and sixth decades of life
- List 6 risk factors for developing a mood disorder.
Answer
- Stress
- Early trauma
- Neglect
- Abuse
- Family history
- Substance dependence
- What are some manifestations of grief?
Answer
- Troubling breathing
- Trouble sleeping
- Loss of appetite
- Trembling, shakiness, dry mouth, nausea, muscle weakness.
- What are some symptoms of complicated grief?
- Grief lasting more than 2-6 months
- Persistent feeling of hopelessness
- Maladaptive behaviors
- What is the #1 disabling illness in the world?
Answer
Answer Depression
- One or more episodes of major depression with one or more episodes of mania
Prevalence is 0.4%-1.6%
Answer Bipolar I disorder
- One or more episodes of major depression with periods of hypomania Prevalence is 0.5%
- Normal, healthy fluctuations of mood 3 / 4
Answer Bipolar II disorder
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Euthymia
- Mood is a experience of feelings, whereas affect is an
reflection of feelings.
Answer Subjective. Objective.
- The *undiagnosed* mood state characterized by sadness, despair, and loss of functional
status
Answer Melancholy
- Diagnosed overwhelming sadness and despair that one feels drained of energy.They may
feel so sad and empty that he or she becomes incapacitated by a loss of the will to live, and suicidal thoughts may prevail.
Answer Depression
- What is the difference between mania and hypomania?
- Characteristics of mania.
- What is the most common mood stabilizer?
Answer Mania involves perceptual disturbances and is more severe than hypomania.With hypomania, there is less impairment.
Answer Perceptual disturbances, such as racing thoughts, grandiose delusions, difficulty concentrating, impulsivity, and lack of insight. Also, impaired functional status.
Answer Lithium
- Some symptoms of this condition include dilated pupils, myoclonus (invol- untary muscle
twitch) and hyperthermia (>106)
Answer Serotonin toxicity
- Intermittent tremor or twitching
Answer Myoclonus
- What is the narrow therapeutic index for lithium?
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