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| Why is it important to monitor BP for patients on venlafaxine? |
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It can cause transient HTN in some patients.
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| What are the most common phobias? |
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Situational phobias, natural environment phobias, blood-injection-injury phobias, and animal phobias. Community sampling indicates heights, mice, spiders and insects are the most common specific phobias.
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| T/F Psychotropic meds aren't effective in treating phobias. |
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TRUE
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| What is the treatment of choice for phobias? |
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Exposure therapy
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| What are common social phobias? |
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Eating, writing, speaking in public or using public restrooms
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| What class of drugs are used to treat social phobias? |
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SSRIs
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| What role does Minipress have on the treatment of PTSD? |
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It has been used to decrease recurrent nightmares in patients with PTSD.
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| How is Acute Stress Disorder different from PTSD? |
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It occurs after a recent exposure to a traumatic stressor with symptoms occurring within 4 weeks , that last for longer than 2 days. The patient must have at least three dissociative symptoms (numbing, detachment, derealization, depersonalization, etc.). If the symptoms last longer than a month, it is PTSD.
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| What is thought to cause dissociative disorders? |
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Extreme internal or external stressors or events. Prevalence is high in people who experienced sexual or physical abuse in childhood.
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| ________ is a form of coping with severe anxiety characterized by a failure to integrate identity, memory and consciousness. |
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Dissociation
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| _________ is the inability to recall important, stressful information, a form of dissociation. |
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Dissociative amnesia
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| ________ is characterized by unexpected travel away from home with the inability to recall one's past and confusion about personal identity or the assumption of a new identity. |
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Dissociative fugue
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| _________ disorder is a form of dissociation that involves the feeling of being detached from one's own mental processes. |
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Depersonalization
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| What is the difference between primary and secondary anxiety? |
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Primary anxiety is not caused by a medical condition or drug use, and secondary anxiety is.
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| Diazepam/Valium is a common medication used to treat anxiety. What medication is used to treat an overdose of this class of drugs (benzodiazepines)? |
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Flumazenil/Romazicon
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