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Common mental health problems
This document discusses common mental health problems and illnesses. It covers major categories of psychiatric disorders including organic disorders caused by physical illnesses or injuries, developmental disorders, and disorders caused by substance use. Specific illnesses mentioned include depression, mania, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, and conversion disorder. The document emphasizes that when assessing patients, simple questions about the problem, duration, and other symptoms are usually sufficient rather than expecting technical diagnoses. It also notes some challenges in distinguishing problems from illnesses, and stresses the importance of psychiatric nursing beyond just medication administration.
Common mental health problems
- 1. common mental healthproblems Dr.R.K.Rudhran
- 2. problems? illnesses? Call ita crow and you will never hear its song
- 3. Psychiatric Disorders • Major •Minor • Organic • Developmental • Consequent to physical illnesses
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- 5. That happens inside thehood covers the working of the engine we do not know how it is inside, we don’t see but we know when the car doesn’t work
- 6. • Mechanic asks,“ what is the problem” • Depending on your answer, he decides and solves quickly • similarly
- 7. ask the patientor the relative • What is the problem? • Don’t expect DSM or ICD answers • Common language, simple statements are enough to come to a conclusion in psychiatry
- 8. an example • Whatis the problem • For how long • Anything else • Are three simple and fundamental questions
- 9. minor illnesses • Earliercalled neurotic • Then minor • Now without heading each has its own name • Here is where problems and illnesses are confused
- 10. what is yourreaction to these • You lost your purse • You peep out of the twenty seventh floor • You see a group of people dancing as though god has entered them and you like the music • You step on faeces, wash up and then..later • You hate your job, your boss is sitting on your head...
- 11. These are allminor illnesses • Secondary depression • Phobia • Hysterical suggestibility • Obsessive compulsive remediation • conversion
- 12. Secondary or ReactiveDepression
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- 21. organic • Mental retardation(don’t use the term now) • Dementia • Brain pathology
- 22. Post partum Post infective Drug/ Alcohol
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- 27. how to handle •Aggression • Crying • Relatives
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- 31. Psychiatric nursing isnot giving medication. It is giving consolation, and working on rehabilitation
- 32. Keep smiling and beconfident Confidence comes from knowledge Keep learning
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