Bipolar & Related Disorders
A mood disturbance with continuous elevation, agitation/irritability, and extreme goal-directed activity or energy
Mania
A diagnosis that may be given to people if they are concerned with being away from significant others because they fear something bad will happen
Separation anxiety disorder
Thoughts, impulses, or images that persist/recur so they cannot leave one’s mind
Obsessions
A hypertensive crisis is a medical emergency that is sometimes seen with this classification of antidepressants
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
Similar to factitious disorder; however, this is said to be the act of exaggerating symptoms and fabricating an illness to receive secondary gain
Malingering
The term used to describe when individuals with bipolar I or II have 4+ mood episodes within a year
Rapid cycling
Fear of public speaking is common in individuals with this disorder
Social anxiety disorder
People’s homes can become uninhabitable due to this disorder
Hoarding disorder
This mood stabilizer may have to be supplemented in early phases of treatment with other medications because its onset of action is noticed after 10-21 days
Lithium
A person’s affect is described as this when he or she displays little to no emotion
Flat
Patients may be displaying these types of delusions if they exaggerate their importance and believe they have great powers
Grandiose
People may be diagnosed with this disorder if their worry is out of proportion to the true impact of situations or events
Generalized anxiety disorder
The disorder that involves individuals being preoccupied with imagined defective body parts and perfectionism
Body dysmorphic disorder
This classification of medications is often prescribed for patients with PTSD
SSRIs
People with generalized anxiety disorder often also have this disorder
Major depressive disorder
People may be diagnosed with this disorder if they have hypomanic and depressive symptoms that are not severe enough to be diagnosed with bipolar II and major depressive disorder
Cyclothymic disorder
What people may experience when they have a sudden onset of severe apprehension or fear that causes them to have a sense of impending doom
Panic attack
The term used to describe secretly swallowing pulled hair
Trichophagia
Patients who are displaying nonsuicidal self-injury may be prescribed aripiprazole or ziprasidone, which belong to this classification of medications
Second-generation antipsychotics
The term is used to describe feelings of detachment or unfamiliarity of one’s own body, mental processes, feelings, and sensations
Depersonalization
The type of speech that is similar to circumstantial speech; however, the person loses the point he or she was trying to make
Tangential speech
People are sometimes said to have this type of phobia if they fear places or situations that may be considered embarrassing or difficult to escape from
Agoraphobia
Also known as skin-picking disorder
Excoriation
This antianxiety medication may be prescribed instead of benzodiazepines because it does not cause dependence
Buspar
These associations involve the stringing together of words due to their rhyming sounds
Clang