Psychotic
Mood
Anxiety/Somatoform
Dissociative
Personality
100
A psychotic disorder that has the primary symptom of interpreting reality abnormally.
What is Schizophrenia?
100
A disorder that has symptoms like extreme hopelessness and despair, as well as apathy towards life.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
100
A discrete period in which there is a sudden onset of intense apprehension, fearfulness, anxiety, and terror, often associated with feelings of impending doom.
What is A Panic Attack
100
An inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too extensive to be classified as ordinary forgetfulness.
What is Dissociative Amnesia.
100
A person with this disorder might be introverted, withdrawn, solitary, emotionally cold, and distant.
What is schizoid personality disorder?
200
A fixed, false and abnormal belief of either grandeur or paranoia.
What is Delusion?
200
A condition where an individual has heightened mood, usually comes along with risky behaviors, rapid speaking, and flurries of different ideas at once.
What is Mania?
200
The re-experiencing of an extremely traumatic event accompanied by feelings of extreme arousal and avoidance of the stimuli associated with the trauma.
What is Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder
200
A recurrent feeling of separation or detachment from ones body or mental processes.
What is Depersonalization Disorder.
200
People with this personality disorder may exhibit a pattern of dependent and submissive behavior, relying on others to make decisions for them.
What is dependent personality disorder?
300
Sensory experiences without sensory stimulation, otherwise known as seeing and hearing things in simpler terms
What is Hallucination?
300
A smaller, less well known disorder that is essentially depression on a smaller, less intense scale that can last for year.
What is Dysthymia?
300
Anxiety about, or avoidance of places or situations in which escape might be difficult ( or embarrassing) or in which help may not be available in the event of having a panic attack.
What is Agoraphobia.
300
A mental disorder that can be characterized by the appearance of at least two distinct and relatively enduring identities or dissociated personality states that alternately control a person's behavior, accompanied by memory impairment for important information not explained by ordinary forgetfulness.
What is Disociative Identity Disorder.
300
The essential feature for this type of personality disorder is interpreting the actions of others as deliberately threatening or demeaning.
What is paranoid personality disorder?
400
Becoming frozen over a period of time, where a waxy flexibility can move them into positions they've never assumed before.
What is Catatonia?
400
A disorder characterized by symptoms with periods of extreme depression as well as manic bouts.
What is bipolar disorder?
400
Showing psychological stress in physical ways (unexplained pain)
What is Conversion Disorder.
400
When an individual temporarily loses their sense of personal identity and impulsively wander or travel away from their homes or places of work. They often become confused about who they are and might even create new identities.
What is Dissociative Fugue
400
Abrupt and extreme mood changes, stormy interpersonal relationships, an unstable and fluctuating self-image, unpredictable and self-destructive actions characterize the person with this personality disorder
What is borderline personality disorder?
500
When an individual has a genetic predisposition from their parents that results in the disorder becoming active.
What is Diathesis
500
A form of treatment that is specifically for Seasonal Affective Disorder and can only work to treat that specific disorder.
What is Light Therapy?
500
People with this type are preoccupied with concern they have a serious disease. For example, they may believe that a common headache is a sign of a brain tumor.
What is hypochondria?
500
This set standards for mental disorders and is followed by modern psychologists.
What is the DSM-IV
500
People with this disorder may have odd or eccentric manners of speaking or dressing. Strange, outlandish or paranoid beliefs and thoughts are common,as well as difficulties forming relationships and extreme anxiety in social situations.
What is schizotypal personality disorder?
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