Transcript K-PAX
K-PAX Psychotic/Psychosis • Means a person cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined • He/she has lost touch with reality Delusional Disorder • A type of psychosis in which a person holds unshakable beliefs in something untrue • For example they may believe they are being followed, poisoned, deceived, conspired against, or loved from a distance • The delusions usually involve the misinterpretation of experiences, however the situations are either not true at all or are highly exaggerated • Delusions must last for at least one month. • Apart from the impact of the delusions, persons functioning is not dramatically impaired and their behavior is not obviously odd or bizarre. • Person is still able to socialize and function normally • Delusions are not due to the direct physical affects of a substance (drug abuse, medication, etc…) or a general medical condition. • Is not schizophrenia (which usually includes hallucinations). Types of Delusions • Delusions of persecution • The belief that someone the person is close to is treating them unfairly or is out to get them. • Delusions of being controlled • The belief that your thoughts are being controlled by someone or something else (the government, aliens) • Delusions of grandeur • A belief in ones own power, knowledge, inflated worth, or that they have a special relationship to God or some famous person. Thorazine • Type of drug used to treat psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia. • Has some negative side effects including: twitching, uncontrollable shaking, and problems with walking or balance. Catatonic • A state of physical or psychological immobility • Person is awake, but shows no reaction to outside world at all Hypnosis • A social interaction in which a hypnotist makes suggestions about perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors and a subject follows those suggestions. Hypnotic Regression • A type of hypnosis used to recover what practitioners believe are memories from your past, your early childhood, and even past lives. Psychogenic Fugue • Also called a fugue state • A rare psychiatric disorder characterized by amnesia (loss of memory) for personal identity, including the memories, personality, and other identifying characteristics of an individual • It usually involves unplanned traveling, or wandering, and even establishing a completely new identity someplace else. • It is not a fugue if it results from drug use, physical trauma (brain injury) or some other medical condition • Usually triggered by a stressful episode • After recovery from fugue, previous memories usually return, but there is complete amnesia for the fugue episode PTSD • Post traumatic stress disorder • A severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to an event that results in psychological trauma • May involve death or the threat of it to ones self or someone close to the person • Can be caused by natural disasters, accidents, military combat, or physical or sexual abuse. • Person’s ability to cope becomes overwhelmed • Person with PTSD re-experiences the original trauma through flashbacks or nightmares. • Person will often avoid stimuli associated with the trauma which may trigger an episode (i.e. fireworks that sound like gunshots).