True/False
Stockholm Syndrome is when a hostage falls in love with their abductor
True
What is Apotemnophilia?
a.) symptoms are usually triggered by “art that is perceived as particularly beautiful or when the individual is exposed to large quantities of art that are concentrated in a single place,”
b.) a neurological disorder and paraphilia in which a person has the overwhelming desire to amputate healthy limbs
c.) the delusional belief that someone in their life, usually a spouse, close friend or family member, has been replaced by an impostor
d.) the belief that one’s hand “does not belong to oneself, but that it has its own life
B.) a neurological disorder in which a person has the overwhelming desire to amputate healthy limbs
Schizophrenia may be connected to which physical trait:
a.) shape of mouth
b.) distance between eyes
c.) height
d.) weight
A.) Shape of Mouth
Recent studies suggest that schizophrenia may be correlated with a slightly wider hard palate, which is on the roof of your mouth. What that suggests is that doctors could find ways to look at physical traits to diagnose schizophrenia. Even more importantly, it means that schizophrenia is likely part of a larger developmental disorder than we once thought—one that contains both physical and mental symptoms.
What is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
a. person believes that they are actually a Disney character
b. person sees an object much smaller or much bigger than it is in real life, as if they were looking at the world "through the wrong end of a telescope"
b. person sees an object much smaller or much bigger than it really is in real life, as if they were looking at the world “through the wrong end of a telescope”
Agoraphobia is:
a.) the fear of wild animals
b.) the fear of people
c.) the fear of heights
d.) the fear places that may be difficult to escape from
D.) the fear places that may be difficult to escape from
Aboulomania is someone's constant urge to pull their own hair out
False
That would be Trichotillomania.
The delusional belief that someone in their life, usually a spouse, close friend or family member, has been replaced by an impostor
a.) Capgras Syndrome
b.) Schizoaffective Disorder
c.) Stendhal Syndrome
d.) Alien Hand Syndrome
A.) Capgras Syndrome
What is the percentage of mentally ill children in Canada?
a. 5%
b. 20%
c. 76%
d. 90%
approximately 20%
Lycanthropy is when someone believes they are...
a. a werewolf
b. a bear
c. a snake
d. a fish
a. someone who believes they are a werewolf
Arachnophobia is:
a.) the fear of water
b.) the the fear of earth
c.) the fear of fire
d.) the fear of spiders
D.) the fear of spiders
The constant craving for human flesh combined with the fear of becoming a cannibal is known as Wendigo Psychosis.
True
The belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying (decomposing) or have lost some internal organs or blood.
a.) Capgras Syndrome
b.) Walking Corpse Syndrome
c.) Cotard Delusion
d.) Social Anxiety
C.) Cotard Delusion
True/False: Stress can shrink your brain?
True
long-term stress, or the presence of a stress-inducing mental illness in modern life, can cause chronic, long-term release of cortisol. Cortisol—the “stress hormone”—can kill brain cells directly, impair general brain function, and even make the brain smaller through cellular atrophy (decrease in cell size).
Aboulomania is....
a. the inability to walk
b. the fear of trees
c. the inability to make a decision, to the point where they cannot function in normal life
d. the obsessive need to eat things that aren't edible
c. the inability to make a decision, to the point where they cannot function in normal life
Acrophobia is:
a.) the fear of bees
b.) the fear of men
c.) the fear that somewhere in the world a duck is watching you
d.) the fear of heights
D.) The fear of heights
Boanthropy is the belief that you are actually a celebrity.
False Boanthropy is the belief that one is specifically a cow or bull
Fregoli Delusion is
a.) the belief that different people are a single person changing their appearance or is in disguise. b.) the belief that someone is really an animal
c.) fear of social situations
d.) the belief that you are actually married to a celebrity
A.) the belief that different people are a single person changing their appearance or is in disguise
_____ is a form of anxiety disorder that exists where no obsession related action occurs. This is commonly known as a non-physical form of OCD.
a.) Mild OCD
b.) Pure O
c.) Internal OCD
d.) Atrophy
B.) Pure O
usually characterized by something incredibly violent, like a random thought to pull out a knife and stab their coworker. They don’t want to do that, but the thought runs through their heads anyway. Usually, they’re just as disgusted by their thoughts as anyone else would be. At the same time, people suffering from “Pure O” don’t compulsively repeat actions, which is what you usually picture when you think of someone with OCD.
involuntary experiences in another sense or a “union of the senses,” where for example taste and sound are joined together. Some people experience color when they hear sounds or read words
a.) Erotomania
b.) Aboulomania
c.) Synesthesia
d.) Pica
C.) Synesthesia
Cynophobia is:
a.) the fear of dogs
b.) the fear of blind people
c.) the fear of one's own voice
d.) fear of the color purple
A.) the fear of dogs
People with Ekbom syndrome believe that they are actually someone else.
False, they believe that their skin is infested with insects
Lima syndrome is:
a.) the opposite of Stockholm Syndrome
b.) the belief that a vegetable is going to attack them
c.) when hostage takers become more sympathetic to the needs of their hostages
d.) a & c
D.) A&C
Between _________ of all Americans with mental illness will at some point pass through the criminal justice system
a.) 25%-40%
b.) 20%-80%
c.) 10%- 15%
d.) 75%-98%
A.) 25%-40%
Pica is....
a. the obsession with always being in control
b. the compulsion of picking your own skin
c. the fear of spiders
d. the compulsion to eat things that aren't food and have no nutritional value
d. the compulsion to eat things that aren’t food and have no nutritional value
Geliophobia is:
a.) the fear of small things
b.) the fear of words
c.) the fear of things to the left side of the body
d.) the fear of laughter
D.) the fear of laughter