Presentation
Patients who present to primary care with symptoms of fainting and dizziness, for which there is no adequate physical explanation, are frequently suffering from an undiagnosed psychiatric disorder. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Entire Body System
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Fatigue
Patients who screened positive for depression, anxiety and PTSD reported significantly higher levels of pain, fatigue, and functional impairment. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Wessely S (1997) Chronic fatigue syndrom: a 20th century illness? Scand J Work Environ Health 23:17–34 PubMed Google Scholar 37. Wessely S (1998) The epidemiology of chronic fatigue syndrome. Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 7:10–24 PubMed Google Scholar 38. [doi.org]
Depression, however, can indirectly cause weight loss, fatigue and loss of libido, among others. [psychguides.com]
People with General Anxiety Disorder have co-occurring physical symptoms, such as fatigue, trembling, muscle tension, headache, or nausea. [triadmentalhealth.org]
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Weight Loss
Depression, however, can indirectly cause weight loss, fatigue and loss of libido, among others. [psychguides.com]
People with anorexia will deny themselves food to the point of self-starvation as they obsesses about weight loss. [nami.org]
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“Thinner Than a Yellow Flower, Weight-Loss Book Found in School Bag, Schoolgirl Falls Dead on Street,” reported another Chinese-language paper. [nytimes.com]
Behavior that is out of character and risky, foolish or inappropriate may result from a loss of normal social restraint.[2] Some people also have physical symptoms, such as sweating, pacing, and weight loss. [en.wikipedia.org]
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Acute Intermittent Porphyria
Overall, the diagnosis of acute intermittent porphyria should be considered in any psychiatric syndrome with unexplained pain, especially if the pain is cyclical in nature [ 17 ]. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
"Acute Intermittent Porphyria (AIP)". American Porphyria Foundation. 18 February 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2017. a b "Agitated Depression: Symptoms, Treatment, and Outlook". Healthline. Retrieved 31 July 2018. a b "What is psychomotor agitation?". [en.wikipedia.org]
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Family History of Depression
Genetic causes have been suggested from family studies that have shown that between 20 and 50 percent of children and adolescents with depression have a family history of depression and that children of depressed parents are more than three times as likely [web.archive.org]
history (including depression, narcissistic personality disorder[62][63] and anxiety).[64] Twin studies have also revealed a very high heritability for many mental disorders (especially autism and schizophrenia).[65] Although researchers have been looking [en.wikipedia.org]
Psychiatrical
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Visual Hallucination
Literature analysis led us to propose a comprehensive list of atypical psychiatric symptoms including highly predominant visual hallucinations, compared to auditory ones, as well as confusion, catatonia or progressive cognitive decline. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Hallucinations are a core symptom of schizophrenia and are more often auditory or at least, auditory hallucinations are more important than visual hallucinations. [dx.doi.org]
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Psychiatric Manifestation
STUDY SELECTION: Case reports, case series or reviews with original data regarding psychiatric manifestations and cognitive impairment published between January 1967 and June 2012 were included based on a standardized four-step selection process. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Psychiatric manifestations are widely known and well documented [ 40 – 43 ], occurring in 24–70% of patients in acute porphyria series [ 44, 45 ]. [dx.doi.org]
Neurologic
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Behavior Problem
Pelham, Early Intervention for Children With Behavior Problems in Summer Settings, Journal of Early Intervention, 38, 2, (92), (2016). [doi.org]
Relationships Between Psychiatric Conditions and Behavior Problems Among Adults With Mental Retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 109(1), 21–33. (2004)109 2.0.CO;2 Rush, A. J., & Frances, A. (2000). [revistas.usal.es]
Childhood emotional and behavioral problems: reducing overdiagnosis without risking undertreatment. Dev Med Child Neurol 2012 54 492-4. The new somatic symptom disorder in DSM-5 risks mislabeling many people as mentally ill. [annals.org]
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Headache
For instance, medical conditions that are accompanied by a high symptom burden, such as migraine headaches or back pain, can lead to depression. [rwjf.org]
Goadsby, P. ( 2003 ) Headache: migraine, cluster headache, and other primary headaches. In Oxford Textbook of Medicine ( 4th edn ) (eds Warrell, D., Cox, T. M., Firth, J. D. et al ), pp. 993 – 1001. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Goff, D. [doi.org]
It focuses on a teenager with migraine headaches, a dentist trying to decrease his risk for developing heart disease, and a woman with breast cancer, along with those who are treating them. 5. [learner.org]
Medication Side Effects Some of the side effects of mental health medication include nausea, headache, changes in appetite, dry mouth, increased urination, change in libido, irritability, blurred vision and drowsiness. [psychguides.com]
Some of the most common side effects include: drowsiness dizziness dry mouth nervousness headaches shakiness confusion weight gain Interrupted education or training - Many people first develop symptoms of mental illnesses between the ages of 15 and 25 [web.archive.org]
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Apathy
[…] neurodegenerative diseases include: Huntington’s disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), or Lou Gehrig’s disease Parkinson’s disease all forms of dementia Some of the more common symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases include: memory loss forgetfulness apathy [healthline.com]
But then the anger, agitation, even apathy, and sympathy are also being amplified. That’s how an “up” day feels. [atlassian.com]
High doses (30 g) of glycine have been shown to reduce the more subtle symptoms of schizophrenia, such as social withdrawal, emotional flatness, and apathy, which do not respond to most of the existing medications [ 54 – 56 ]. [doi.org]
[…] should be carried out using sound methodology and an understanding of whether the desired effect is to treat a whole disease or instead focus on essential features of that disease: i.e. attempting to treat schizophrenia or improving memory and reducing apathy [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
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Dizziness
Patients who present to primary care with symptoms of fainting and dizziness, for which there is no adequate physical explanation, are frequently suffering from an undiagnosed psychiatric disorder. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Some of the most common side effects include: drowsiness dizziness dry mouth nervousness headaches shakiness confusion weight gain Interrupted education or training - Many people first develop symptoms of mental illnesses between the ages of 15 and 25 [web.archive.org]
“My head started leaking blood, and that’s when I started getting dizzy and dizzy and dizzy,” he said, adding that he eventually passed out. When he came to, he said, “I’m bloodied up, my teeth is all bloody, my mouth is all bloody. [nytimes.com]
Physical symptoms include: chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, abdominal discomfort, feelings of unreality, and fear of dying. [triadmentalhealth.org]
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Lip Smacking
chewing, sniffing, slurping, lip smacking). Misophonia is not listed in any of the contemporary psychiatric classification systems. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Urogenital
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Sexual Dysfunction
F52 Sexual dysfunction not due to a substanc... F53 Mental and behavioral disorders associat... F54 Psychological and behavioral factors ass... F55 Abuse of non-psychoactive substances F59 Unspecified behavioral syndromes associa... [icd10data.com]
Sexual dysfunction, gender identity disorder, and the paraphilias are examples of sexual and gender disorders. [webmd.com]
The DSM-III opened the door to loose diagnosis by defining conditions that were no more than slightly more severe versions of such everyday problems as mild depression, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, simple phobias, sexual dysfunctions, and sleep [annals.org]
Treatment
Receiving mental health treatment in prison was associated with greater risk of victimisation there. Receiving treatment appeared to mediate the relationship between mental disorders, symptoms, and victimisation. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Effective treatments are available for the treatment of the acute phase of bipolar disorder and the prevention of relapse. These are medicines that stabilize mood. Psychosocial support is an important component of treatment. [web.archive.org]
Second, the interviews did not include standardized treatment questions, thwarting valid cross-national comparisons of treatment. [doi.org]
Prognosis
Prognosis and outcome in schizophrenia. Int J Ment Health 1988 ;17: 63 – 80. Google Scholar Crossref ISI 65. Ogawa, K, Miya, M, Watarai, A. [doi.org]
CONTEXT: Clinically relevant late-life depression has a prevalence of 16% and is associated with substantial societal costs through its disease burden and unfavorable prognosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Although many parents want to avoid medication or the stigma of a mental diagnosis, the prognosis is brighter with proper treatment. [kidsmentalhealth.org]
Etiology
Neuroticism is etiologically not informative yet but useful as an efficient marker of non-specified general risk. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Jacques Jouanna and Véronique Boudon-Millot, The Typology and Etiology of Madness in Ancient Greek Medical and Philosophical Writing VI. Vivian Nutton, Galenic Madness VII. [brill.com]
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Literature Cited Abstract This review discusses issues and controversies with respect to the construct of a mental disorder, models of etiology and pathology, and domains of psychopathology. [doi.org]
Epidemiology
Magruder, Mental Health Epidemiology (Psychiatric Epidemiology), International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00284-8, (54-62), (2017). [doi.org]
Pathophysiology
Despite several groups having shown that an overlapping pathophysiology exists between visceral pain and stress-related disorders the link between them is not clear yet. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Finn DP, Viveros MP, Marco EM: The endocannabinoid system and emotional processing: pathophysiology and therapeutic potential. J Psychopharmacol 2012;26:3-6. [dx.doi.org]
Prevention
Indicated preventive interventions aimed at the prevention of depression could be combined with the prevention of anxiety disorders because the rate of comorbid depression and anxiety is high and because behavioral approaches for prevention could use [doi.org]
Power calculations are presented for studies examining universal prevention (aimed at the general population regardless of risk status), selective prevention (aimed at high-risk groups), and indicated prevention (aimed at subjects who have some symptoms [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
That’s not early detection, that’s not early prevention.” Basic Research NIMH Prevention [web.archive.org]