Psychiatric Nursing‫ تمريض الحاالت النفسية والعقلية‬is a field of various fields

of nursing such as midwives, health visitors, midwives and triage nurses.)

There are a lot of features and characteristics of the

‫ صفات وخصائص مميزة لمرضى الطب النفسي والعقلي مثل األتي‬: Such as :

 Walking naked in the street‫ المشي عاريا ً ( عارية ) في الشارع‬.

 Washing the hands hundreds of times. ‫المبالغة الشديدة في تنظيف األيدي‬
 Sleeping all day and staying up all night. ً‫!!! النوم نهاراً والسهر ليال‬
 Staying all the time in his house and feeling worried of the outside
world. 3‫المكوث باستمرار في المنزل والشعور بالخوف من الخارج‬.
 Living alone all the time
 Rough behavior with other people. ‫التعامل بحدة وخشونه مع األخرين‬
 Believing he or she is in real danger of some bad people. ‫الشعور‬
‫المرضي بالخوف وتوجس الخطر‬
 Believing he or she is famous and has a historical importance and
that all people know him. ‫توهم العظمة‬

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Vocabulary

Word ‫الكلمة‬ Definition ‫المفهوم‬

Manic ‫مجنون – مهووس‬ Behaving in an abnormally excited
way ‫التصرف بطريقة غريبة وشاذة‬
Delusion ‫وهم‬ Strange and false ideas ‫أفكار غريبه‬
‫وخاطئة‬
Irritable ,‫غير متعقل‬ Not making sense ‫ينافي التعقل‬
Depression ‫حزن – كآبة‬ Feeling of extreme uncontrollable
sadness‫شعور بحزن عارم‬
Disoriented ‫ال يعرف المكان والزمان‬ Not sure where you are
Paranoia ‫جنون االضطهاد‬ The wrong belief that somebody is
trying to harm you ‫الشعور الخاطئ بأن‬
‫ الضرر واألذى بك‬3‫أحداً يريد إلحاق‬
Unemotional ‫غير مظهر لعواطفه‬ Not showing your feelings
‫وأحاسيسه‬
Posture ‫وضعية – جلسة‬ A way of standing or sitting
Psychiatric ‫طب نفسي وعقلي‬ Psychotic ‫مريض الذهان‬
Traumatic ‫مصدوم‬ bipolar disorder ‫إضطراب عقلي ( ثنائي‬
) ‫القطبين‬
Onset of illness ‫هجوم المرض‬ Commit suicide ‫ينتحر‬
Tic ‫تشنج‬ Geriatric ward ‫جناح الشيخوخه‬
Swear ‫يقسم‬ Long term ‫مدى طويل‬

It is a mental illness‫ م رض عقلي‬of which about 1.5

million people are diagnosed with every year.
It has psychiatric periods ‫ أدوار نفس ية‬. During these
periods there are some disturbing changes ‫تغيرات مقلقة‬
‫ تطرأ على السلوك تكون ال سوية‬in behavior such as :
Being very cold and unemotional.
Saying strange things in flat slow voice
Very cold and few facial expressions.
Losing all interest in people.
Spending days without washing or eating- just staying
idle ‫خامل‬
Hallucinations ‫هذيان – هلوسة‬
Hearing voices that his family do not hear.
Delusion ‫خداع وهلوسة‬
Behaving as if they were famous historical persons
It is hard to speak to them so they are isolated ‫منعزلين‬
At the end most of these sufferers ‫ المرضى‬end their lives
committing suicide ‫ينهون حياتهم باالنتحار‬
There is no violence nor threat come from them. They are
not ……………..
Schizophrenia has a medication or a medicine but it
has some side effects. ‫لها عالج به بعض األثار الجانبية‬
One sufferers of each Five may recover.
What is the cause of Schizophrenia?

- No one exactly knows . Scientists say that it may related to the

following :
 Genes
 Brain infection before birth
 Traumatic life events and experiences. ‫خبرات الحياة المليئة‬
‫بالصدمات والحوادث‬
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Tourette Syndrome ‫متالزمة توريت‬
It is a nervous disorder that first appears in childhood.
The sufferers have these mental changes:
 Frequent repetitions motor vocal tics ‫تشنجات حركية وصوتية‬
‫تتكرر باستمرار‬
 Repeated movements and sounds>
 Repeating people's voices.

Listening based on Unit 12

1- The new patient was admitted to the hospital on
………………..
{ Thursday-Tuesday- Wednesday- Saturday}
2- When he was admitted, he was ……………
( oriented – disoriented – manic – abnormal}
3- The new had ………………… .
{ good sleep – poor sleep – deep sleep – sound sleep)
4- The patient has………………… hallucination.
{ Hearing – visual – cognitive – depression}
5- He gets ……………… easily.
{ disagree – disabled- disconnected – disappointed}
Best of Luck