NUR 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychosis, Aphasia, Dysarthria
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Mental illness: a condition that impacts a person"s thinking, feeling or mood. May affect ability to relate to others and function on a daily basis. Symptoms: physical: can be explained, physically, medically, unexplained, somatoform: lacks adequate medical explanation. Health history: changes in attention, mood and speech, changes in insight, orientation, changes in short-term and long-term memory. Assessing speech and language: talks to much or not enough, talks loud or soft, articulation. Aphasia: disorder of language: level of consciousness. Comatose: unconscious and does not open eyes or respond to stimuli. Frequently coexist with other mental disorders and often accompanies serious illness. Anhedonia: is loss of wanting to participate in daily activity. Panic disorder, excessive worry, nervous, expect the worse to happen. National public health initiative is to prevent. Risk factors: depression mental illness, substance abuse, prior attempts, psychotic. 11th leading cause of death thinking, family history, family violence, incarceration.
