A client who is restricting their food intake and refuse to…
A client who is restricting their food intake and refuse to maintain minimal healthy weight due to strong fear of gaining weight or being “fat” and endorses a disturbance in body image and self-esteem with a BMI of 16 will be diagnosed with:
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You are working on an inpatient psychiatry unit and one of the new registered nurses tells you that she is caring for a patient with a diagnosis of a manic episode with mixed features. She asks you to explain what this means. You advise the nurse that patients experiencing episodes of bipolar mania, hypomania, and major depression can also experience symptoms of opposite polarity (mixed features). You explain that a manic episode with mixed features is defined as an episode that meets the diagnostic criteria for mania along with at least three of the defined symptoms being present on most days of the episode. Which of the following is NOT included in the defined symptoms associated with a manic episode with mixed features?
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