- Avoid withdrawal symptoms and prevent relapse.
- Promote weight gain.
- Increase energy levels only.
- Treat unrelated physical ailments.
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- Arranging for immediate re-hospitalization.
- Ensuring adequate social support and community resources are in place.
- Discouraging medication adherence to foster independence.
- Limiting family involvement in care.
- Legally bind the patient from self-harm.
- Transfer responsibility for safety to the patient.
- Engage the patient in a verbal agreement to seek help when suicidal urges arise.
- Eliminate all suicidal thoughts.
- Confront the patient directly with reality.
- Focus on the underlying emotion rather than the delusion content.
- Argue with the patient to convince them otherwise.
- Humor the patient to build rapport.
- Restating.
- Reflecting.
- Paraphrasing.
- Clarifying.
- Solely relying on punishment for relapse.
- A multidisciplinary approach including therapy, support groups, and sometimes medication.
- Avoiding all social contact to prevent triggers.
- Limiting access to financial resources.
- Family history of mental illness.
- Current suicidal ideation and plan.
- Social support system.
- Educational background.
- Extrapyramidal symptoms.
- Anticholinergic side effects.
- Metabolic syndrome.
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome.
- Anhedonia.
- Alogia.
- Avolition.
- Affective flattening.
- Administer oxygen via nasal cannula.
- Encourage rapid, shallow breathing.
- Coach them to breathe slowly and deeply into a paper bag.
- Offer a stimulant beverage.
- Feeling the same emotions as the patient.
- Objectively identifying and understanding the patient's feelings.
- Offering solutions to the patient's problems.
- Sharing personal experiences to build rapport.
- Thought broadcasting.
- Thought insertion.
- Thought withdrawal.
- Delusion of control.
- Complete blood count (CBC).
- Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH).
- Serum sodium level.
- Renal function tests (creatinine, BUN).
- An accurate self-perception.
- A realistic body image.
- A cognitive distortion.
- A sign of improved insight.
- Treating all patients equally and fairly.
- Doing good for the patient.
- Respecting patient autonomy.
- Maintaining patient confidentiality.
- Waiting for your turn to speak.
- Planning your next question while the patient is talking.
- Paying full attention, providing verbal and non-verbal cues of understanding.
- Offering frequent advice and solutions.
- Delusions of control.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Disorganized thought process.
- Catatonic behavior.
- Ask the patient repeatedly what is wrong.
- Sit with the patient in silence, observing for cues of distress.
- Report the behavior to the doctor without intervention.
- Tell the patient they must talk about what happened.
- Complete eradication of mental illness.
- A linear process leading to a cure.
- Living a meaningful life despite mental illness symptoms.
- Sole reliance on pharmacological interventions.
