Anxiety Disorders
What is an episode of extreme panic in which a person will report feeling like they are dying or having a heart attack?
Panic Attack
What is it called when a person has more than one personality inside of their own psyche
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
What is the difference between Major Depressive Disorder and Dysthymia?
Major Depressive Disorder lasts longer than 2 weeks
What is it called when a person sees their body differently than it truly is?
Body Dysmorphia
ADHD
What anxiety disorder involves intense feelings of dread and impending doom for more than 6 months with no known cause?
What is it called when a person loses their memory due to psychological causes (not head trauma) and cannot remember autobiographical information?
Dissociative Amnesia
Name atleast 3 symptoms of depression.
loss of pleasure, weight loss or gain, lack of energy, guilt, thoughts of suicide, restlessness, loss of sense of purpose
Diagnose: A person who has greatly restricted their food intake, taking their body weight down below the healthy level. This person still sees their body as overweight, and they choose to wear baggy clothing to hide it.
Anorexia Nervosa
What are atleast 2 symptoms of Dementia?
memory loss, difficulty finding words and speaking, change in behavior, inappropriate behavior, and difficulty problem solving
What is the difference between a Panic Disorder and a Panic Attack?
For a Panic Disorder to be diagnosed, there must be more than 1 panic attack and there must be persistent worry or changes in behavior
What are atleast 3 symptoms of Schizophrenia?
Hallucinations, delusions, flat affect, reduced pleasure, reduced speaking, thought disorder, and movement disorder
What are the primary symptoms of Bipolar Disorder?
Manic episodes followed by depressed episodes
Diagnose: A person has episodes about 2 or 3 times per month in which they will stay up late and eat almost all of the groceries. They try to hide it from their spouse by purchasing groceries early the next day. They feel shameful about what they have done after.
Binge Eating Disorder
This is a developmental disorder that is diagnosed in about 1 in every 59 births.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Describe what a person with Hypochondriasis would experience.
They will have the belief that they are physically ill, often having physical symptoms, but with the lack of any illness. They cannot accept a doctor's healthy diagnosis.
What are delusions?
False beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness
What is a manic episode?
Excessive excitement, energy, and elation or irritability
What are two ways in which a person with Bulimia Nervosa unhealthily handles binge eating?
Purging or vomiting, or excessive exercise and dieting
Symptoms: Lack of remorse, reckless behavior and law breaking, uses people for personal gain, more commonly diagnosed in men
Antisocial Personality Disorder
(What kind of jobs would people like this be good at?)
What are the symptoms of OCD?
Obsessions: Intruding and recurring thoughts
Compulsions: repetitive, ritualistic behaviors, or mental acts
What is believed to cause DID?
Early childhood trauma such as physical, emotional, or sexual abuse
Who is more likely to be diagnosed with depression?
Women across all cultures
What health problems can be caused by purging or vomiting after binge eating?
Damage to the esophagus and the decay of tooth enamel
This patient is so afraid of being abandoned that she swallows her boyfriend's car keys so he can't leave, what disorder should be diagnosed?
Borderline Personality Disorder