Deviations from the social norm such as dying your hair like an Easter egg and piercing your entire face fall under this criteria for a psychological disorder.
What is socially unacceptable behavior?
100
The proper name for the disorder that involves persistent, recurring thoughts, images or impulses and senseless behaviors or rituals.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
100
This long term disorder is characterized by terrifying flashbacks brought on after one experiences a life threatening event.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
100
This class of disorders is indicative of a split or break in a person's normally integrated identity caused by the brain's detachment of personality or mental processes.
What is a disociative disorder?
100
This class of disorders includes a physical response to a psychological problem.
What are somatoform disorders?
200
This abnormality, or criteria for a psychological disorder, is defined as the ability or inability to function as a person or in society.
What is maladaptitiy?
200
The behavior that must be performed because of an obsession or thought.
What is a compulsion?
200
This is defined as intense, excessive, irrational fear.
What is a phobia?
200
This type of disassociation is characterized by a total break or loss of original personality and a random relocation of life.
What is a fugue?
200
These are the two disorders classified as somatoform.
What are conversion disorder and hypochondriasis?
300
This along with maladaptivity, socially unacceptable behavior, and emotional discomfort make up the criteria for a psychological disorder.
What is typicality?
300
The need to avoid this causes a person to perform ceremonial rituals such as having three chairs by their bed each night.
What is a panic attack?
300
Soldiers who return from combat zones often complain of the inability to cope and recurring nightmares due to this anxiety disorder.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
300
This disorder has been linked to child abuse. It is characterized by black-outs, an a sever change in behavior.
What is disociative identity disorder?
300
This disorder is characterized in a person who believes that a pimple is skin cancer and a headache is a brain tumor, but is not just delusional.
What is hypochondriasis?
400
The name and level of this Axis would identify a persons ability to hold down a job.
What is Axis V Global Assessment of Functioning?
400
While never being able to end anxiety all together doing this will help reduce a person with OCD's anxiety even without medication.
What is fulfill their compulsion?
400
This phobia is characterized by a fear of being in places or situations in which escape may be difficult or impossible.
What is agoraphobia?
400
This event is defined as the rejoining of all personalities in a person with DID.
What is integration?
400
Any false sensation.
What is an hallucination?
500
These are the four criteria to be classified as a disorder according to the DSM IV.
What are typicality, maladaptivity, emotional discomfort and socially unacceptable behavior?
500
This can be characterized differently by different people, but some will experience heart pounding, trouble breathing, intense sweating, or fainting.
What is a panic attack?
500
This disorder can be characterized by excessive consistent worry, physical ailments such as headache, nausea, and muscle tension. It can also include apprehension about life over all?
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
500
This was the name of DID before the DSM IV TR was approved.
What is Multiple Personality Disorder?
500
This disorder is characterized by the loss of a sense or paralysis due to a psychological reason.