Mood Disorders
This is the most common mood disorder, characterized by low mood, loss of interest, and fatigue.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This disorder involves intense fear about specific objects or situations, like flying or spiders.
What is a Specific Phobia?
This disorder is characterized by hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking for over 6 months.
What is Schizophrenia?
This disorder features persistent inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity.
What is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
This cluster includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders.
What is Cluster A?
This disorder involves episodes of both depression and mania.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
This disorder includes persistent worry about many life areas for at least 6 months.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
These are false beliefs that are firmly held despite evidence to the contrary.
What are delusions?
A neurodevelopmental disorder with deficits in social communication and restricted, repetitive behaviors.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
This disorder involves intense fears of abandonment and unstable relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This is a less severe form of bipolar disorder with hypomania instead of full mania.
What is Bipolar II Disorder?
An individual fears and avoids social situations due to possible embarrassment or judgment.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)?
Hearing voices when no one is there is an example of this symptom.
What is an auditory hallucination?
A specific learning disorder can affect this basic academic skill.
What is reading (or math or written expression)?
A person with this disorder has a need for admiration and lacks empathy.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
A person with this disorder has chronic, low-grade depression for at least two years.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)?
This disorder features sudden episodes of intense fear, racing heart, and dizziness.
What is Panic Disorder?
This disorder involves psychotic symptoms lasting between 1 and 6 months.
What is Schizophreniform Disorder?
This disorder involves motor and/or vocal tics.
What is Tourette’s Disorder?
This disorder involves social inhibition and feelings of inadequacy, despite wanting close relationships.
What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?
Mood symptoms occurring during the week before menses and improving afterward suggest this diagnosis.
What is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)?
This anxiety disorder develops after exposure to a traumatic event and includes flashbacks and avoidance.
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
A brief psychotic episode that occurs within 1 month of a major stressor.
What is Brief Psychotic Disorder?
This intellectual disability involves a genetic condition linked to the X chromosome.
What is Fragile X Syndrome?
This personality disorder features perfectionism and a preoccupation with order at the expense of flexibility.
hat is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)?