PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Paranoid Schizophrenia, Simple-Type Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder
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Hypervigilant abnormally increased arousal, responsiveness to stimuli and scanning of the environment for threats. Treatment: desensitization of the cue that upsets the person. Disorders completely disrupting people"s lives, their social and work lives. Neuroses are generally thought to be disorders where people make up tales in their minds. Psychoses are people who in a sense live in these worlds. Symptoms of schizophrenia is a blunted, flattened affect: blunted feelings and emotions, hallucinations. Tactile/visual hallucinations: delusions, disordered thinking/disorganized thoughts. Simple schizophrenia: able to get by in life, blunted emotions, can get and hold a job, but have major problems in human relationships. Paranoid schizophrenia: delusions of people trying to control their mind or trying to monitor them, they will think they"re being spied on, or some secret organization is watching, 3 crisis of ipsilon. 3 psychiatrists knew 3 schizophrenics all of whom they thought were jesus. Psychiatrists got the 3 schizophrenics in one room to cure them.