Doc, What's The Diagnosis?
Jordan washes his hands over 40 times a day because he is terrified of germs and feels extremely anxious if he doesn’t.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
This type of anxiety disorder is when a person is tense, apprehensive, and in a constant state of autonomic system arousal.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This mood disorder is a prolonged severe depression where symptoms need to last at least 2 weeks in order to be diagnosed.
What is Major Depression Disorder?
This is the highly rare and controversial disorder where a person has 2 or more distinct personalities at different times.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
This behavioral therapy is when a person is given repeated exposure to a feared object or situation to reduce fear.
What is Exposure Therapy?
Maya has felt extremely sad for months, lost interest in soccer and hanging out with friends, and struggles to get out of bed most days.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This is when a person has a disproportionate fear response to a specific object or situation.
What are Specific Phobias?
This is a mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the excited state of mania.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This cluster B personality is a disorder where a person exhibits conscience for wrong doing even towards friends and family.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This is the three stage pattern of responses triggered by the effort to adapt to any stressor.
What is the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
After being in a serious car accident, Luis has nightmares, avoids driving, and panics whenever he hears screeching tires.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This is the fear of being in places where it is hard to escape them.
What is Agoraphobia?
This is a disorder that causes people to experience life abnormally through delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or catatonic behavior.
What is Schizophrenia?
This cluster B personality is a disorder where a person has a grandiose sense of self-importance and believes that he/she is special and unique.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
This invasive therapy is used as a last resort to treat severe depression. It uses an electrical current to induce a brief seizure to hopefully rewire the brain.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy?
Emma goes through periods where she barely sleeps, talks incredibly fast, spends huge amounts of money impulsively, and feels unstoppable. Weeks later, she crashes into deep depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This Psychology perspective believes that anxiety genes trigger levels of serotonin which causes the anxiety.
What is the Biological Perspective?
These are symptoms that are added to someone's personality that may still cause harm.
What are Positive Symptoms?
This cluster A personality is a disorder where a person is paranoid, distrust, or suspicious of others intentions.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
These are therapies with the goal of increasing self-awareness and understanding unconscious conflicts.
What are Psychodynamic Therapies?
Noah believes strangers are secretly spying on him through his phone. He hears voices arguing with him even when nobody is around and has trouble telling what is real.
What is Schizophrenia?
This is the fear of making other people uncomfortable or offended.
What is Taijin Kyofusho?
This hypothesis states that too much of this neurotransmitter at the receptor sites can cause schizophrenia.
What is Dopamine?
This personality disorder cluster is described as anxious and fearful.
What is Cluster C?
These are the therapies with the goals of changing a patient's thoughts AND behaviors.
What are Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies?