Mental Health
A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.
What is a Psychological Disorder?
Distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behavioral disturbances.
What are Anxiety Disorders?
The most severe form, in which people experience a euphoric, talkative, highly energetic, and overly ambitious state (mania) that lasts a week or longer, followed by a depressed state.
What is Bipolar 1 Disorder?
Where conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
What are Dissociative Disorders?
A disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
A widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-V or DSM-5?
Sudden episode of intense fear with the feeling like you can't breathe
What is Panic Disorder?
A disorder in which a person experiences five or more symptoms lasting two or more weeks where at least one of which must be either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Disorder with one or more personality states
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
A disorder in which the person exhibits instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Biological, psychological, and social-cultural influences together weave the fabric of our behaviors, our thoughts, and our feelings.
What is Biopsychosocial Approach?
The unwanted & repetitive thoughts that lead to having anxiety.
What are Obsessions?
Phase of Bipolar Disorder that is characterized by a hyperactive, state of euphoria.
What is Mania or Manic Episode?
A group of severe disorders characterized by:
-disorganized and delusional thinking
-disturbed perceptions & hallucinations
-inappropriate emotions and actions
What is Schizophrenia?
A disorder characterized by significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory behavior.
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
These people cannot form real emotional connections or feel empathy for others; use fake emotions and good at pretending with relationships
Who are Psychopaths?
A type of anxiety disorder where a person is tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Compulsive fretting; overthinking our problems and their causes, may also impact depression.
What is Rumination?
A false belief that you are someone powerful & important.
What is a Delusion of Grandeur?
A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by limitations in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
A concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital
What is the Medical Model?
An anxiety disorder that develops after personally experiencing an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury.
What is Post Tramatic Stress Disorder?
Who or what we blame for our failures; often negative for those experiencing depression
What is an Explanatory Style?
A group of disorders marked by irrational ideas, distorted perceptions, and a loss of contact with reality.
What are Psychotic Disorders?
A group of disorders where their are central nervous system abnormalities (usually in the brain) that start in childhood and alter thinking and behavior.
What are Neurodevelopmental Disorders?