Anxiety & OCD
It's the brain structure most associated with the emotion of fear.
What is the Amygdala?
Described by Homer and Shakespeare, and termed shell-shock or battle exhaustion depending on which World War we're talking about, the constellation of symptoms that make up this disorder is likely older than war itself.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Don't worry, when you space out and miss your exit you're experiencing an entirely normal example of this, rather than a symptom of psychopathology.
What is dissociation?
Never been without depressive symptoms more than 2 months out of the last 2 years? Then you likely meet criteria for this disorder.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder or Dysthymia?
Point, period, and lifetime are all examples of this descriptive quality.
What is prevalence?
This is the psychological theory most strongly associated with the treatment of anxiety disorders.
What is Behaviorism?
Not actually adorable at all, this disorder may be re-diagnosed as PTSD if symptoms persist for more than a month.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
Among all in its category, this controversial disorder is the most strongly associated with repeated experiences of childhood trauma, abuse, and neglect.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Unlike Bipolar II, the diagnosis of Bipolar I does not require a history of experiencing this discreet mood period.
What is a Major Depressive Episode?
Historically diagnosed only in women, the Greeks thought this "disease" resulted from wandering reproductive organs and could be cured by putting them to use.
What is Hysteria?
More than mere shyness, this disorder impacts almost 9% of the population in a given year and comes in general and performance-based varieties.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
With some controversy about its validity, this "complicated" disorder may represent a particularly severe form of Borderline Personality Disorder.
What is Complex-PTSD?
This disorder used to be called Hypochondriasis.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
This disorder is diagnosed when an individual experiences mood episodes that don't quite meet criteria for a Major Depressive Episode and/or a Manic Episode.
What is Cyclothymia?
Mr. P's symptoms could be representative of 2 disorders which differ in severity, a problem that may be addressed via the use of this organizational approach.
What is a dimensional approach?
From the outside, you are unlikely to see "the problem." From the inside, individuals with this disorder are unlikely to have insight into the real problem.
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
Prazosin and Imagery Rehearsal Therapy are both used to treat this intrusive symptom of PTSD.
What are nightmares?
When symptoms are fabricated for secondary gain, it's called malingering. When there is no identifiable external reward, it's this disorder.
What is Factitious Disorder?
The inclusion of these symptoms automatically elevates a Hypomanic Episode into a Manic Episode, resulting in a diagnosis of Bipolar I Disorder.
What are psychotic features? (hallucinations or delusions)
"Deez" are the three major features that differentiate a psychological disorder from non-pathological behavior.
What are distress, dysfunction, and deviance?
It's not always bad, but this operant conditioning principle is a major feature of distress avoidance and tends to strengthen anxiety.
What is negative reinforcement?
While around 6% of the general population may develop PTSD in their lifetimes and 20% may meet criteria for Acute Stress Disorder, this is the proportion of the general population that will experience a traumatic event at some point in their lives.
What is 70%?
This is the only disorder in its category that does not involve deficits in normal memory functioning.
What is Derealization/Depersonalization Disorder?
This is the only mood disorder in the category that is primarily diagnosed in children.
What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)?
These are the elements that come together in the Multipath Model to more holistically describe the etiology and expressions of disorders.
What are biological, psychological, relational, and socio-cultural factors?