Mood Disorders
These are 3 symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder
What are depressed mood most of the day most days, lack of interest in most activities, weight loss or gain, insomnia or hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation or slowdown, fatigue/loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness or guilt, diminished ability to think or concentrate, suicidal thoughts?
Thoughts lead to feelings lead to actions
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Not to get political here, this diagnosis includes a grandiose sense of self-importance, preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success/power/beauty, belief they are "special", require excessive admiration, sense of entitlement, will take advantage of others to achieve their own goals, lack of empathy, envious of others or believe others of envious of them, and shows arrogant haughty behaviors
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
These are 3 symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
What are difficulty controlling worry, excessive anxiety occurring more days than not for at least 6 months, has a wide variety of triggers, restlessness, easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance?
Occurring following a direct or indirect exposure to a horrible event, symptoms of this disorder include recurrent intrusive distressing memories, recurrent distressing dreams, flashbacks, and marked physiological reactions to triggers that resemble event
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?
Recurrent temper outbursts out of proportion with the situation and developmental level happening 3 or more times a week, the mood between outbursts is persistently irritable or angry, going on for 12 or more months is the diagnosis criteria for A)Angry Outburst Disorder, B) Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, or C) Bipolar Disorder
What is B) Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?
This focuses on the way people in a house interact with each other and affect the group as a whole
What is Family Systems Therapy?
Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, persistently unstable self-image/sense of self, impulsivity that is potentially self-damaging, self-harming or suicidal behavior, frequent mood changes, inappropriate intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This is my best description of Social Anxiety Disorder
Marked fear or anxiety in one or more social situations where being judged is possible, fear of showing anxiety and being negatively judged, social situations almost always provoke fear, social situations are avoided, fear/anxiety is out of proportion to actual threat, fear/anxiety ongoing for at least 6 months
This disorder has one or both of the following:
recurrent persistent thoughts that are unwanted and cause intense anxiety or distress
the perceived need to engage in repetitive behaviors (eg ordering, checking) or mental acts (eg counting, praying) in order to relieve persistent thoughts
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
"I'm not really depressed, I don't have thoughts of dying. But for the last year or two, I've been sad most of the time with poor appetite, low energy, self esteem is awful, and I have trouble concentrating," is something someone with this diagnosis would say.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder or Dysthymia?
This focuses on the 4 main areas of Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?
A pervasive distrust of others in that their motives are viewed as malevolent, suspects without cause that others are exploiting/harming them, preoccupied with doubts of the loyalty of friends, reluctance to confide in others, reads threats or attacks in benign comments or events, persistently holds grudges
Diagnostic criteria for this is recurrent excessive distress at being away from home or major attachment figures, persistent worry about losing attachment figures, being taken away from attachment figures, being alone without attachment figures, nightmares about being away, and reluctance or refusal to be away from attachment figures
What is Separation Anxiety Disorder?
These are the 3 specifiers/types of ADHD
What are Predominately Inattentive, Predominantly Hyperactive/impulsive, and Combined Presentation?
Periods of manic episodes lasting at least a week followed by a period of major depression for at least 2 weeks is known as this
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Rather than focusing on the past, this deals with the present and the future to find fixes for problems quickly
What is Solution Focused Therapy?
Starting by age 15, a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others shown by: failure to conform to social norms of lawful behavior, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability and aggressiveness, reckless disregard for the safety of others and self, irresponsibility (eg unable to sustain employment), lack of remorse at hurting/mistreating/stealing from others is this: A) Aggressive Personality Disorder, B) Antagonistic Personality Disorder, or C) Antisocial Personality Disorder
What is C) Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This describes "Specific Phobia"
What is a marked fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation such as heights, flying, animals, clowns, or needles?
This class of disorders include a person who has two or more distinct personality states, someone developing anmesia following a traumatic event, or someone experiencing a sense of unreality or detachment from their surroundings (derealization) or themselves (depersonalization)
What are Dissociative Disorders?
This is the difference between Bipolar I disorder and Bipolar II disorder
What is I has full blown Manic episodes and II has less severe hypomanic episodes?
This deals with freedom, responsibility, loneliness, and the meaning of life
What is Existentialism?
What is A) Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Symptoms of this can include restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushed face, diuresis (increased urination), gastrointestinal disturbances, muscle twitching, rambling flow of thought and speech, tachycardia or cardiac arrhythmia, periods of inexhaustibility, and psychomotor agitation
What is Caffeine Intoxication?