MOOD DISORDERS
Persistent sadness or loss of interest in activities can indicate this disorder.
What is Depression?
This is the most common anxiety disorder, marked by chronic worry.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by delusions and hallucinations.
What is Schizophrenia?
This disorder involves extreme attention-seeking and emotionality.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
The most common type of talk therapy.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This disorder includes alternating periods of depression and mania.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Sudden intense fear and physical symptoms characterize this disorder.
What is a Panic Disorder?
A brief form of this disorder lasts less than one month.
What is Brief Psychotic Disorder?
People with this disorder show no regard for right and wrong.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This type of professional can prescribe psychiatric medication.
What is a Psychiatrist?
A less severe, chronic form of depression lasting 2+ years.
What is Dysthymia (Persistent Depressive Disorder)?
This disorder includes fear of being in situations where escape is difficult.
What is Agoraphobia?
This symptom involves hearing voices that aren’t there.
What are Auditory Hallucinations?
Intense fear of abandonment and unstable relationships are signs of this.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
The manual used by clinicians to diagnose mental disorders.
What is the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)?
This type of bipolar disorder involves hypomania, not full mania.
What is Bipolar II Disorder?
This type of phobia involves intense fear of social situations.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
Belief that one is being watched or persecuted is called this.
What is Paranoia?
This disorder features a pervasive distrust of others.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
These drugs are commonly used to treat depression.
What are Antidepressants?
Depression occurring in the winter months due to lack of sunlight.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
This disorder is triggered by experiencing or witnessing trauma.
What is PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)?
When mood symptoms and psychosis are both present, it’s called this.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
Grandiosity and lack of empathy are hallmarks of this disorder.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
This therapy is often used to treat PTSD through reprocessing trauma.
What is EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)?