NURS 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder, Schizophrenia
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Mental disorder: a disorder that affects a perso(cid:374)"s (cid:373)i(cid:374)d. Causes person to act in unusual ways, experience emotional difficulties, or both. Coping/defense mechanisms: things you do to make yourself feel better when you start to feel overwhelmed. Conscious and deliberate way of dealing with stress. Conversion: developing a physical problem while having an emotional problem. Displacement: shifting emotion away from one person and directing it toward a less threatening person (ex. Projection: blaming someone else for your own uncomfortable or unacceptable actions or feelings. Regression: to turn back to a former or earlier state. Repression/suppression: refusing to remember or thinking about a frightening or uncomfortable memory. Things that put elderly at high risk for mental illness: Moving to a long term care facility. Anxiety disorders: anxiety, panic, obsessive-compulsive disorders, phobias, ptsd. Schizophrenia: delusions trouble determining what is real, hallucinations seei(cid:374)g, heari(cid:374)g, or s(cid:373)elli(cid:374)g so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that is(cid:374)"t there. Difficulties determining what is real and what is imaginary.
