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Depression: major depression criteria

DEAD SWAMP:
Depressed mood most of the day
Energy loss or fatigue
Anhedonia
Death thoughts (recurrent), suicidal ideation or attempts
Sleep disturbances (insomnia, hypersomnia)
Worthlessness or excessive guilt
Appetite or weight change
Mentation decreased (ability to think or concentrate, indecisiveness)
Psychomotor agitation or retardation
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---Dr. Mike de Beer GP

Schizophrenia: negative features

4 A's:
Ambivalence
Affective incongruence
Associative loosening
Autism
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---Anonymous Contributor

Depression

UNHAPPINESS:
Understandable (such as bereavement, major stresses)
Neurotic (high anxiety personalities, negative parental upbringing
Hypochondriasis
Agitation (usually organic causes such as dementia
Pseudodementia
Pain
Importuniing (whingeing, complaining)
Nihilistic
Endogenous
Secondary (ie cancer at the head of the pancreas, bronchogenic cancer)
Syndromal
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---Peter Loa Medical Student at Adelaide University

Depression: melancholic features (DSM IV)

MELANcholic:
Morning worsening of symptoms/ psychoMotor agitation, retardation/ early Morning wakening
Excessive guilt
Loss of emotional reactivity
ANorexia/ ANhedonia
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---Anthony Chan

Substance dependence: features (DSM IV)

"WITHDraw IT":
· 3 of 7 within 12 month period:
Withdrawal
Interest or Important activities given up or reduced
Tolerance
Harm to physical and psychosocial known but continue to use
Desire to cut down, control
Intended time, amount exceeded
Time spent too much
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---Anthony Chan

Mania: cardinal symptoms

DIG FAST:
Distractibility
Indiscretion (DSM-IV's "excessive involvement in pleasurable activities")
Grandiosity
Flight of ideas
Activity increase
Sleep deficit (decreased need for sleep)
Talkativeness (pressured speech)
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---Anonymous Contributor

Depression criteria/symptoms

A SAD FACES:
Appetite, weight changes
Sleep changes
Anhedonia
Dysphoria (low mood)
Fatigue
Agitation (psychomotor)
Concentration
Esteem
Suicide
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---The Fifth Year Kids at Wgtn School of Medicine Wgtn School of Med, Univ. of Otago

Mania: diagnostic criteria

Must have 3 of MANIAC:
Mouth (pressure of speech)/ Moodl
Activity increased
Naughty (disinhibition)
Insomnia
Attention (distractability)
Confidence (grandiose ideas)
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---Waqar Ahmed Queens University, Belfast

Neuroleptic side effects onset

The rule of 4's:
Dystonia: 4 hours-4 days
Akathesia: 4 days-40 days
Extrapyramidal symptoms: 4 days-4 weeks
Tardive dyskinesia: 4 months (greater than)
· Note that tardive is obviously the latest one to happen (tardive=tardy/late).
· Note that the first letters of these four classic symptoms spell "DATE", and this mnemonic is the dates when they occur.
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---Anonymous Contributor

Anxiety disorders: physical illnesses mimicking them

"Physical Health Hazards That Appear Panciky":
Phaeochromocytoma
Hyperthyroidism
Hypoglycaemia
Temporal lobe epilepsy
Alcohol
Paroxysmal arrhythmias
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---Seyi Kayode College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria