Diagnostic Criteria A
Recent pulling out of one's hair resulting in hair loss
Trichotillomania
Mania
1 week
Feeling of muscle quivering, restlesness, inability to sit still
Akathisia
Common themes: clearning, symmetry, forbidden or taboo thoughts and harm
OCD
Serotonin Syndrome
Repeated regurgitation of food over a period of at least 1 month. Regurgitated food may be re-chewed, re-swallowed, or spit out.
Rumination disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
6 months
Continuous flow of elevated speech in which person abruptly changes from topic to topic
Flight of Ideas
Poor insight, do no perceive they are ill or need treatment, and resist efforsts to be treated
Bipolar mania
0.8-1.2mmol/L
Therapeutic serum level of Lithium
Recurrent periods of an irrepressible need to sleep, papsing into sleep, or nappin goccuring within the same day. These must have been occuring at least 3 times per week over the past 3 months
Narcolepsy
Dysthymia
2 years
Repetitive behaviors, or mental acts that a person feels driven to perform in order to produce or prevent some future state of affiars
Compulsions
Loss of interest or pleasure is nearly always present
Anti-depressant with SE of hypertension
Duloxetine (Cymbalta)
Marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny by others.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder
1 month
No outward evidence of any emotion
Flat affect
Prone to esophageal tears, gastric rupture, cardiac arrythmias
Bulimia Nervosa
Effective medication for nightmares
Prazosin
Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence
PTSD
Adjustment Disorder
Development within 3 months of stressor, not lasting longer than 6 months after stressor or consequences have terminated
Trouble comprehending what someone else is communicating
Receptive aphasia
Often believe that other people make special notice of them or mock them because of how they look
Body dysmorphic disorder
Teratogenic
Depakote