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The book used to categorize and classify mental illnesses.
What is the DSM V?
A vague, generalized apprehension of feeling that one is in danger
What is anxiety?
Physical symptoms for which there is no apparent cause.
What is a somatoform disorder?
False beliefs that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence
What are delusions?
Maladaptive or inflexible ways of dealing with others and one's environment.
What is a personality disorder?
The main characteristics that define a disorder
What are essential features?
A constant general feeling that one is in danger or that something is wrong, this person is unable to enjoy life in the day to day. Accompanied by physical symptoms like muscular tension and an inability to relax, and poor appetite.
What is generalized anxiety disorder
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific body function. Doctors report that Geo has nothing wrong with his spine, however, he insists that he is paralyzed.
What is a conversion disorder?
A group of disorders characterized by confused and disconnected thoughts, emotions, and perceptions.
What is schizophrenia?
Julian is known to be the best of friends with Jona. In fact, they are inseparable, to the point that Jona complains about needing space sometimes. When this happens, Julian gets defensive insisting that without his best friend, life is meaningless and hollow.
What is dependent disorder?
The major dimensions used to describe a person's mental functioning
What are Axes?
What is an Axis?
(either is correct)
A fear that is focused on a particular object, animal, activity, or situation that is out of proportion to the real dangers involved.
What is a phobia?
(either works)
Araiya is in good health, but visits doctors regularly. Insisting that she is ill. She regularly calls reporting minor bumps oe pains as concern for a fatal illness, and when told that she is okay, she frantically insists she is ill.
What is hypochondriasis
April regularly experiences delusions of grandeur, saying that she is destined to save humanity from the dangers of di-hydrogen monoxide, and that people need to be wary of the government spies that watch her every move.
What is paranoid-type schizophrenia?
Use of a drug to such an extent that a person feels nervous and anxious without it.
What is psychological dependence?
The main ways to identify psychological disorders
What is deviation from normality?
What is adjustment?
What is psychological Health?
(mentioning at least 1 will grant the answer)
An extreme anxiety that manifests in a sudden, helpless terror. This person may have difficulty breathing. And reports attacks of terror potentially lasting over an hour.
What is panic disorder?
Haki drove to Las Vegas for his vacation, he never returned home. A few years later, police realize that he is living in Vegas under the name "Jason" and has no memory of his previous identity.
What is dissociative fugue?
For the past two weeks, Ky'lae has been bedridden. She is sad, anxious, and easily frustrated. Her depression ranges between mild unease and suicidal despair.
What is major depressive disorder?
Aron has always lived life quickly. Fast cars, fast relationships. He struggles to hold down a job for more than a few months at a time and as a result has been known to engage in criminal behavior to supplement his lifestyle. While a social chameleon, he has also left behind supposed friends to get captured by the police, telling them later that it was their own fault for getting caught.
What is ASPD?
What is a psychopath?
What is a sociopath?
(Any work)
The axis of DSM classification meant to describe developmental disorders and over-dependency or aggressiveness.
What are Axis II disorders?
Generally, Khitam is able to go about her day-to-day life normally. However, she occasionally has moments of deep sadness and fear associated with cars ever since she was caught up in a terrible vehicular accident where she nearly died. She reports having flashbacks and recurring nightmares of the crash.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
Mars went to a psychiatrist reporting headaches and severe blackouts. One day, during therapy, Mars suddenly changes personality, and insists that she is not Mars, but a wholly different person named Minerva.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D.)?
After weeks of depression, Ethan has suddenly become energetic and excited, in the past week, he has gone 3 days without sleeping and was regularly going to a casino, insisting he was destined to win. A few weeks later, Ethan is once more bedridden, staring lifelessly at the opposite wall and only eating when helped by someone else.
What is bipolar disorder?
What is manic depression?
(either works)
Karmoni has known his beloved girlfriend for several years now. But he treats her like a distant acquaintance. The only people he really opens up to are his own family. On occasion, he also claims to sense her presence using clairvoyant powers.
What is schizotypal disorder?