SYMPTOMS OF PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS Presented by Adama Awasom

SYMPTOMS OF PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS Presented by Adama Awasom And Mariama Drammeh 18 th October 2010 @ SMAHS

Summary • • • Definition of psychiatric diseases Causes Types Symptoms Bibliography

Definition • Psychiatric disorders: Any condition that affects ones mind. • Mental illness is any disease or condition affecting the brain that influences the way a person thinks, feels, behaves and/or relates to others and to his or her surroundings.

causes Some factors include Heredity (genetics). Hereditary just means that you are more likely to get the condition than if you didn't have an affected family member. Psychological trauma: Some mental illnesses may be triggered by psychological trauma suffered as a child, such as severe emotional, physical or sexual abuse; a significant early loss, such as the loss of a parent; and neglect.

• Environmental stressors • Certain stressors—such as a death or divorce, a dysfunctional family life, changing jobs or schools and substance abuse—can trigger a disorder in a person who may be at risk for developing a mental illness.

Types of psychiatric disorders • Anxiety disorders – Panic disorder – Obsessive-compulsive disorder – Post-traumatic stress disorder – Phobias, e. g social or specific

• Depressive disorders – Depression – Major depressive episode – Major depressive disorder – Dysthymia - chronic and mild depression. – Bipolar disorder – Seasonal Affective Disorder – Postnatal depression (type of Depressive disorders)

• Personality disorders – Antisocial personality disorder – Multiple personality disorder – Schizoid personality disorder – Schizotypal personality disorder – Paranoid personality disorder – Dependent personality disorder – Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder – Avoidant personality disorder

• Behavioral disorders – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – Autism – Rett's syndrome – Drug abuse – Alcohol abuse – Addictions

• Eating disorders – Anorexia Nervosa – Bulimia nervosa – Binge eating disorder

• Psychotic disorders – Schizophrenia – Brief Psychotic Disorder – Delusional disorder

Symptoms • Appearance and behavior; dementia or schizophrenic illness, depressions, alcoholism. Behavior in terms of personality disorder, auditory hallucinations • Speech. Long pauses in schizophrenia unable to interrupt in hypomania. Echolalia, repeating the interviewer

mood • Depression; loss of interest, poor concentration, early morning waking, appetite and weight disturbance, ideas of worthlessness guilt and persecution, retardation of speech • Suicide; questions like, how do you see the future? Have you felt it would be nice to escape or be able to sleep and not wake up?

• Anxiety • Elation; Feel like being on top of the world

Abnormal beliefs • Delusions of; persecution (most common), of granduer (patients believe they are on a special mission), of poverty or depressive dellusions (feelings of worthlessness and guilt), nihilistic delusions (feeling part of their body as dead), of love (erotomania), of infidelity (morbidly jealous), of influence( complain of thoughts being forced into or out of their heads

Abnormal experiences • Illusions • Hallucinations. May be visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile and somatic, others

Abnormal experiences of self and environment • • déjà vu Copgras’syndrome Depersonalisation Derealisation

Bibliography • Hutchison’s clinical methods • (Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition)) • Emedicine. com