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| Principal Mental ILlness (e.g. schizophrenia), developmental disorders or provisional diagnoses present in patient |
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| mental retardation and personality disorders (eg antisocial, borderline) |
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| exiting physical disorders or conditions (e.g. diabetes, hypertension, chronic back pain) |
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| Faster thoughts than you can say them, change in amount of sleep, spent a lot of money lately, extra energy |
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| Cry without reason, guilty feelings, change in weight, change of interest in hobbies/activities, change in energy level |
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| Feel life isn't worth living, think about hurting yourself, seeing no improvement in the future, any plans/ideas how to hurt yourself |
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| People plot against you, feel watched or spied upon, feel you have special abilities, feel people mess with or bother you, feel others read your thoughts |
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| Schizophrenia Hallucinations |
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| Think TV/radio tells you to do things, you hear voices, voices tell you to hurt yourself or others, see strange things you cannot explain |
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| Schizophrenia thought broadcasting |
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| Head acts as a radio, people stranding next to you can hear your thoughts |
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| fixed, false beliefs that are not based in reality or consistent with the patient's religion or culture. Delusions can be paranoid, somatic, or grandiose. |
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| ones thoughts are audible to others |
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| Visual misperceptions involving a misinterpretation of a real sensory stimulus |
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| unwanted thoughts or ideas that intrude into a persons thinking |
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| Actions performed in response to the obsessions or to control anxiety associated with the obsession |
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| awareness that he or she has a mental illness and the consequences of that illness in their life. |
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| ability to make decisions appropriate to the situation and can be impaired in a variety of mental illnesses; assessed by asking how they would handle a situation hypothetically |
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| Diagnostic Testing for those on atypical antipsychotics: |
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| Metabolic disturbances (wt, waist, hip size, BP, lipid panel, glucose) |
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| Diagnostic Testing to evaluate seizures or neurologic conditions |
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| Diagnostic Testing to detect structural abnormalities |
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| Diagnostic Testing to rule out medical causes and medication monitoring |
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| General Laboratory screening |
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| Diagnostic testing to detect autoimmune disorders |
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| ESR and antinuclear antibodies |
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| Diagnostic testing for lithium patients |
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| PG test, electrolytes, renal function, ECG, thyroid panel prior to initiation of therapy |
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| Diagnostic testing for TCA patients |
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| Structured interview that globally assesses many cognitive domains including orientation, visual-spatial organization, memory, and reasoning to determine an overall score of cognitive function. Maximum score is 30, a score of 23 or less is indicative of cognitive impairment. Only takes 5-10 minutes to administer |
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