Mood Disorders
This disorder is characterized by at least two weeks of depressed mood or loss of interest, plus changes in sleep, appetite, and energy.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
An anxiety disorder marked by excessive worry occurring more days than not for six months.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Intrusion, avoidance, negative mood, and hyperarousal for more than one month after trauma.
What is PTSD?
A 14-year-old girl eats very little due to fear of choking, but she expresses no dissatisfaction with her body or weight. She has lost weight and is nutritionally deficient.
What is Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)?
This SSRI has the longest half-life, reducing risk of discontinuation syndrome.
What is fluoxetine (Prozac)?
This disorder includes periods of elevated or irritable mood and increased activity lasting at least one week.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
Recurrent, unexpected panic attacks and persistent concern about having more.
What is Panic Disorder?
Symptoms similar to PTSD but lasting 3 days to 1 month.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
A 37-year-old man has had repeated major depressive episodes but reports two weeks of auditory hallucinations in the past year during times when his mood was normal.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
This SNRI can increase blood pressure at higher doses due to NE reuptake inhibition.
What is venlafaxine (Effexor)?
A milder but chronic form of depression lasting two years or more.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)?
Marked fear of at least two of the following: public transportation, open spaces, enclosed spaces, crowds, or leaving home.
What is Agoraphobia?
Emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to a stressor occurring within 3 months of the event.
What is an Adjustment Disorder?
A 52-year-old woman develops delusions that the government has implanted a device in her tooth. Her functioning is otherwise intact, she maintains normal speech, grooming, and employment, and there are no hallucinations.
What is Delusional Disorder?
Taking SSRIs with linezolid significantly increases risk of this condition.
What is serotonin syndrome?
This specifier applies when depression includes hallucinations or delusions.
What is “with psychotic features”?
An anxiety disorder characterized by irrational fear of specific objects or situations.
What is a Specific Phobia?
This PTSD subtype includes dissociative symptoms such as derealization or depersonalization.
What is PTSD with dissociative features?
A 23-year-old college student spends hours checking whether she hit a pedestrian with her car, despite no evidence of impact. Her behaviors include retracing her route repeatedly and seeking reassurance from friends.
What is Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder?
In CBT, this occurs when a patient modifies internal dialogue to be more accurate and adaptive, not merely positive.
What is cognitive reframing?
This diagnosis requires at least four days of elevated or expansive mood without significant functional impairment.
What is Hypomania?
This childhood disorder involves fear of being away from a primary attachment figure.
What is Separation Anxiety Disorder?
A disorder that involves intentional production of physical or psychological symptoms to assume the sick role.
What is Factitious Disorder?
A 27-year-old woman has a long-standing pattern of unstable relationships, impulsivity, self-mutilation, and frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This approach in healthcare aims to avoid re-traumatization, promote safety, build trust, and support healing.
What is trauma-informed care?