Name that Disorder
This disorder is characterised by excessive fear and worry and related behavioural disturbances.
What is Anxiety Disorder?
This disorder is characterised by all of the following: re-experiencing the traumatic event or events in the present (intrusive memories, flashbacks, or nightmares)
What is PTSD?
These disorders involve abnormal eating and preoccupation with food as well as prominent body weight and shape concerns. The symptoms or behaviours result in significant risk or damage to health, significant distress, or significant impairment of functioning.
What is Eating Disorders?
These disorders exist when personality traits become so pronounced, rigid, and maladaptive that they impair work and/or interpersonal functioning. These social maladaptations can cause significant distress in people with personality disorders and in those around them
What is Personality Disorders?
This is a class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and pain relievers available legally by prescription, such as oxycodone (OxyContin®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), codeine, morphine, and many others.
What are Opioids?
This disorder may develop following exposure to an extremely threatening or horrific event or series of events.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Poor concentration, feelings of excessive guilt or low self-worth, hopelessness about the future, thoughts about dying or suicide, disrupted sleep, changes in appetite or weight, and feeling especially tired or low in energy
What is Depressive Disorder or Depressive episode?
This disorder is characterised by a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that has a direct negative impact on academic, occupational, or social functioning.
What is ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)?
This disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for consequences and for the rights of others. Diagnosis is by clinical criteria. Treatment may include cognitive-behavioral therapy, antipsychotic medications, and antidepressants.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Research results have identified bidirectional causal relationships between this substance use disorder and schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. They also, for the first time, established bidirectional relationships between this use disorder and anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
What is Cannabis Use Disorder?
This disorder is characterised by significant impairments in perception and changes in behaviour.
What is Schizophrenia Disorder?
This disorder is characterised by excessive fear or anxiety about separation from those individuals to whom the person has a deep emotional bond.
What is Separation Anxiety Disorder?
This disorder constitutes a diverse group of conditions characterised by some degree of difficulty with social communication and reciprocal social interaction, as well as persistent restricted, repetitive, and inflexible patterns of behaviour, interests, or activities.
What is ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)?
This personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive, excessive need to be taken care of, leading to submissiveness and clinging behaviors. Diagnosis is by clinical criteria. Treatment is with psychotherapy and possibly antidepressants
What is Dependent Personality Disorder?
This disorder is determined by clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by one (or more) of the following, occurring within a 12-month period:
What is Substance Abuse Disorder?
People with this disorder experience alternating depressive episodes with periods of manic symptoms.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Symptoms may include euphoria or irritability, increased activity or energy, and other symptoms such as increased talkativeness, racing thoughts, increased self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, distractibility, and impulsive reckless behaviour.
What is mania or a manic episode?
This disorder is characterised by significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour, which refers to difficulties with everyday conceptual, social, and practical skills that are performed in daily life
What is Intellectual Development Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability and hypersensitivity in interpersonal relationships, instability in self-image, extreme mood fluctuations, and impulsivity. Diagnosis is by clinical criteria. Treatment is with psychotherapy and sometimes medications.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by a maladaptive pattern of substance use, leading to significant impairment or distress, as manifested by three (or more) of the following, occurring at any time in the same 12-month period:
1) Tolerance, as defined by either the following:
2) Withdrawal, as manifested by either of the following:
3) The substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended.
4) There is persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use.
5) A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain the substance, use the substance or recover from its effects.
6) Important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of substance use.
7) The substance use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by the substance.
What is Substance Dependence Disorder?
During an episode, the person with this disorder experiences depressed mood (feeling sad, irritable, empty) or a loss of pleasure or interest in activities, for most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks.
What is Depressive Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by avoidance of thoughts and memories of the event(s), or avoidance of activities, situations, or people reminiscent of the event(s)
What is PTSD?
These disorders are characterised by persistent behaviour problems such as persistently defiant or disobedient to behaviours that persistently violate the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms, rules, or laws
What is Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
This personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for adulation, and lack of empathy. Diagnosis is by clinical criteria. Treatment is with psychodynamic psychotherapy.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
We show that over time, this substance is more likely to cause PTSD than to treat it.
What is marijuana/cannabis (THC)?