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Psychosis and Neurosis

1. Psychosis vs. Neurosis:
   - The main difference is that in psychosis, there is a loss of insight, while in neurosis, the insight is still present.
   - Psychotic disorders include schizophrenia, manic disorder, and acute psychotic disorder.
   - Psychosis is characterized by delusions and hallucinations with a loss of insight.
   - Delusions are false, unshakable beliefs, while overvalued ideas are unshakable beliefs accompanied by emotional change (no emotional change in delusions).
   - In neurosis, the insight is still present, and it may affect one's ability to function, but the person can still communicate with others.
   - Hysterical disorder is any medical presentation without an organic cause.
   - Neurosis is more common in females than in males, especially for depression (3:1) and anxiety (2:1), while obsession is the same, and mental retardation in males is 4:1 that of females. Learning and speech disorders are also more common in males.

2. Neurotic Disorders:
   - Generalized Anxiety Disorder
   - Panic Disorder
   - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
   - Somatization Disorder
   - Acute Stress Disorder
   - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
   - Conversion Disorder
   - Dissociative Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

1. Anxiety:
   - Anxiety is a fear of the unknown, composed of psychological and physiological components.
   - The psychological component includes apprehension, loss of concentration, restlessness, sleep disturbance, and appetite disturbance.

2. Types of Anxiety:
   - Acute anxiety (normal)
   - Generalized Anxiety Disorder (persistent, severe symptoms without a rational cause)

3. Causes of Anxiety:
   - Organic (medical) and constitutional (personality-based)
   - Anxious personality is not a disorder, but during stress, it can lead to anxiety disorders.

4. Symptoms of Anxiety:
   - Headache, perspiration, palpitation, tightness of the chest, mild stomach discomfort, and restlessness
   - Anxiety, when normal, prevents damage and alerts the patient to take certain actions to forestall danger.

5. Diagnostic Criteria for Anxiety Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition (DSM-IV):
   - Prominent symptoms of anxiety predominate the clinical picture.
   - Evidence from history, physical examination, and lab findings that the disturbance is a direct physiological consequence of a general medical condition.
   - The disturbance is not better accounted for by another mental disorder.
   - The disturbance does not occur during the course of delirium.
   - The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment.

6. Medical Causes of Organic Anxiety:
   - Pheochromocytoma (due to increased adrenaline)
   - Brain lesions
   - Cardiac arrhythmia
   - Hyperthyroidism
   - Hypoglycemia
   - Epileptic activity
   - Cardiomyopathy or cardiac surgery, and COPD (indirect causes)

7. Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder:
   - Sympathomimetics (e.g., amphetamines, cocaine, caffeine)
   - Serotonergic drugs (e.g., LSD, MDMA)
   - Alcohol withdrawal syndrome
   - Sedative withdrawal symptoms (e.g., barbiturates, valium)

8. Endocrine Disorders:
   - Thyroid (hyper- or hypothyroidism)
   - Pheochromocytoma
   - Hypo- and hyperglycemia
   - Wilson's disease
   - Acute intermittent porphyria
   - Metabolic disorders (cognitive impairment more than anxiety)
   - Hepatic encephalopathy and uremic encephalopathy (anxiety due to toxicity of ammonia or uremia)

9. Neurological Syndromes that Cause Anxiety:
   - Epilepsy and dementia
   - Cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
   - Parkinson's disease
   - Pancreatic carcinoma

10. Treatment of Anxiety:
    - Reassurance
    - Anxiolytic drug (pharmacological treatment)
    - Psychotherapy, including cognitive psychotherapy

11. Drug Therapy (Anxiolytics):
    - Benzodiazepines (e.g., diazepam, chlordiazepoxide)
    - Buspirone (not addictive, not sedative, has a late action)

Panic Disorder

1. Essence:
   - Panic attack: A period of intense fear characterized by a constellation of symptoms that develop rapidly, reach a peak in about 10 minutes, and generally do not last longer than 20-30 minutes (rarely over 1 hour).
   - Panic disorder: Recurrent panic attacks, which are not secondary to substance misuse, medical conditions, or another psychiatric disorder.

2. Symptoms/Signs:
   - Physical symptoms/signs related to autonomic arousal (e.g., tremor, tachycardia, tachypnoea, hypertension, sweating, GI upset), often compounded by hyperventilation syndrome.
   - Concerns of death from cardiac or respiratory problems may be a major focus, leading to repeated presentations to emergency medical services.
   - Panic disorder may be undiagnosed in patients with unexplained medical symptoms.
   - Thoughts of suicide (or homicide) should be elicited, as acute anxiety can lead to impulsive acts.

3. Epidemiology:
   - Lifetime prevalence: 4.2% for panic disorder, 8% for panic attacks

4. Comorbidity:
   - Agoraphobia (30-50%), depressive disorder (up to 68%), other anxiety and related disorders (up to 50%), alcohol (up to 30%) and substance misuse, bipolar affective disorder (20%), medical conditions (e.g., mitral valve prolapse, hypertension, cardiomyopathy, COPD, IBS, migraine).

5. Differential Diagnosis:
   - Other anxiety or related disorders, substance or alcohol misuse/withdrawal, mood disorders, psychiatric disorders secondary to medical conditions, various medical conditions presenting with similar symptoms.

6. Investigations:
   - There are no specific tests for panic disorder, but basic investigations should be performed to exclude physical causes.

7. Symptoms Associated with Panic Attacks:
   - Palpitations, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, feeling of choking, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, derealisation, fear of losing control or dying, numbness, and chills or hot flashes.

8. Aetiological Models:
   - Serotonergic model, noradrenergic model, GABA model, lactate model, false suffocation carbon dioxide hypothesis, neuroanatomical model, and genetic hypothesis.

9. Management Guidelines:
   - Pharmacological: SSRIs, alternative antidepressants (TCAs), and benzodiazepines (with caution).
   - Psychological: Behavioural methods, cognitive methods, and psychodynamic methods.

10. Emergency Treatment of an Acute Panic Attack:
    - Maintain a reassuring and calm attitude (most panic attacks spontaneously resolve within 30 minutes).
    - If symptoms are severe and distressing, consider prompt use of benzodiazepines.
    - If first presentation, exclude medical causes (may require admission to hospital for specific tests).
    - If panic attacks are recurrent, consider differential diagnosis for panic disorder and address the underlying disorder (may require psychiatric referral).

Normal and Abnormal Grief Reactions

1. Definitions:
   - Bereavement: Any loss event, usually referring to the death of someone.
   - Grief: The feelings, thoughts, and behaviour associated with bereavement.
   - Normal Grief: The typical symptoms experienced after bereavement, which gradually reduce in intensity, with acceptance of the loss and readjustment.
   - Abnormal (Pathological/Morbid/Complicated) Grief: A grief reaction that is very intense, prolonged, delayed (or absent), or where symptoms outside the normal range are seen.

2. Risk Factors for Depression Following a Bereavement:
   - Previous history of depression
   - Intense grief or depressive symptoms early in the grief reaction
   - Few social supports
   - Little experience of death
   - Traumatic or unexpected death

3. Management:
   - Generally, normal grief does not require specific treatment, although benzodiazepines may be used to reduce severe autonomic arousal or treat problematic sleep disturbance in the short-term.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

1. Epidemiology:
   - Lifetime prevalence of 1.6-3%
   - 60% of adults with OCD are female
   - The median age of onset is 19 years, with males having an earlier onset (6-15 years) than females (20-29 years)

2. Characteristics:
   - Obsessions are "egodystonic" and individuals often resist their symptoms
   - Onset is often sudden, usually after a stressful event such as pregnancy
   - Generally, there is a chronic course, with a fluctuating or progressive deteriorating course, and a spontaneous and enduring remission rate of 20%

3. Obsessions:
   - Persistent, intrusive ideas, thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced as inappropriate and cause marked anxiety or distress
   - The most common obsessions are repeated thoughts about contamination, repeated doubts, aggressive or horrific impulses, sexual imagery, and a particular order

4. Compulsions:
   - Repetitive behaviors or mental acts, the goal of which is to prevent or reduce the anxiety or distress that accompanies an obsession

5. Diagnostic Criteria (DSM-IV):
   - Obsessions as defined by 1-4
   - Compulsions as defined by 1 and 2
   - The person has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable
   - The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships

6. Symptom-Based Sub-Typing of OCD:
   - Aggressive, sexual, and religious obsessions and checking compulsions
   - Symmetry and ordering obsessions and compulsions
   - Contamination obsessions and cleaning compulsions
   - Hoarding obsessions and compulsions

7. Hoarding:
   - Defined as the acquisition of, and inability to discard, worthless items even after they appear to have no value
   - Observed in various disorders, but most commonly found in OCD, occurring in 18-42% of patients

8. Comorbidity:
   - OCD is often co-morbid with major depressive disorder (30-38%), another form of anxiety (40-60%), eating disorders, substance abuse, Tourette's syndrome, and other OC spectrum disorders (e.g., hypochondriasis, body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania)
   - The relationship between OCD and schizophrenia, as well as personality disorders, has also been explored

9. Etiology:
   - Genetic factors: Mutation of the human serotonin transporter gene (hSERT) and a role for increased dopamine activity
   - Brain structures and neuroimaging: Reduced frontal white matter, reduced size of the caudate nuclei, and increased activity in the frontal lobes, basal ganglia, and cingulum

10. Treatment:
    - Non-pharmacological: Psychological therapy, behavioural therapy
    - Pharmacological: Medications targeting the serotonergic and dopaminergic systems

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

1. Introduction:
   - PTSD is a serious anxiety disorder that can develop after a person has experienced or witnessed a traumatic or terrifying event in which serious physical harm occurred or was threatened.
   - The first case of psychological distress related to trauma was reported in 1900 BCE, but PTSD as a diagnosis appeared in the DSM in 1980.

2. Prevalence:
   - It is believed that between 5% and 80% of those exposed to traumatic conditions will develop PTSD, depending on the severity of the trauma and personal vulnerability.
   - The estimated lifetime prevalence of PTSD among adult Americans is 7.8%, with women (10.4%) twice as likely as men (5%) to have PTSD at some point in their lives.

3. Gender Differences:
   - The most common precipitating events for PTSD in women were sexual assault (33.8%) and physical assault (32.3%), while for men, it was seeing someone seriously hurt or killed (25.3%) and physical assault (20.3%).
   - Women and men were equally likely to have been exposed to trauma.

4. Traumatic Events:
   - PTSD can develop after exposure to a wide range of traumatic events, including torture, kidnapping, life-threatening medical diagnosis, terrorist attacks, and other extreme or life-threatening events.

5. Symptoms of PTSD:
   - Hyperarousal: Persistent anxiety, irritability, insomnia, poor concentration
   - Intrusions: Difficulty recalling stressful events, intense intrusive imagery ('flashbacks'), recurrent distressing dreams
   - Avoidance: Avoidance of reminders of the events, detachment, diminished interest in activities

6. Associated Features:
   - Depressed mood, somatic or sexual dysfunction, guilt or obsession, addiction

7. Risk Factors:
   - Previous history of emotional disorder or anxiety, family history of anxiety, early separation from parents, being part of a dysfunctional family, alcohol or drug abuse

8. Aetiology:
   - The stressor, genetic factors, other predisposing factors (e.g., temperament, previous traumatic experiences, child abuse, low self-esteem), neuroendocrine factors, and psychological factors (e.g., fear conditioning, cognitive theories, psychodynamic approaches)

9. Prognosis and Assessment:
   - Around 50% of individuals recover during the first year
   - Assessment should consider the nature, duration, and previous personality and psychiatric history

10. Treatment:
    - Objectives: Reduce emotional distress and associated disturbances to sleep and daily functioning, and help the individual better cope with the triggering event
    - Approaches: Planning for disaster, immediate measures, later treatment (counselling, cognitive-behavioral treatments, psychodynamic approaches, stress management training)
    - Medications: Anxiolytics should be avoided, but SSRIs, alternative antidepressants, and benzodiazepines (with caution) may be used

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