Anxiety disorders
It is marked by chronic, exaggerated worrying about everyday life.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Several factors contribute to the development of depression, including...
What are trauma, genetics, or life circumstances.
PTSD is marked by several symptoms, including...
What are intrusive memories, avoidance of triggers, hypervigilance, feelings of things not being real?
Symptoms of Bipolar disorder include...
What are distinct manic and depressed states, hallucinations, impulsive behavior?
This treatment for PTSD employs exposure to traumatic memories with alternating stimuli.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)?
This is marked by irrational fears that often lead to avoidance of triggers.
What are Phobias?
What percentage of American adults experienced depression last year.
What is 7 percent?
Symptoms of PTSD in children include...
What are acting out scary events during play, forgetting how to talk, being excessively clingy, displaying overly aggressive behavior?
This percentage of American adults are diagnosed with Bipolar every year.
What is 2.9 percent.
This treatment involves facing fears and processing feelings.
What is Exposure therapy?
This type of anxiety leads to fears of social humiliation.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder.
Clinical depression differs from normal feelings of sadness in one key way.
What is how long symptoms last?
This percentage of American adults are affected by PTSD.
What is 3.5 percent?
Scientists believe several factors contribute to the development of Bipolar disorder, including...
This type of treatment is marked by addressing the thoughts that contribute to distressing feelings.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Anxiety symptoms include these conditions.
What are irritability, restlessness, headaches, racing heart?
This type of depression is caused by a lack of sunlight.
What is Seasonal Affective Depressive Disorder?
The average age when someone is diagnosed with PTSD.
What is early 20s?
This form of PTSD is marked by depressive episodes but no full manic episode.
What is Bipolar ii Disorder?
This is an effective treatment for Seasonal Affective Depressive Disorder (SADD).
What is Light therapy?
Anxiety can be confused with these medical conditions.
What are heart disease and hyperthyroidism?
Name four symptoms of depression.
What are loss of interest in activities, changes in appetite, sleep disturbances, fatigue, feelings of low worth, difficulty concentrating.
The feeling of things not being real often experienced with PTSD.
What is dissociation or derealization?
The term to describe a "high" that becomes uncomfortable and uncontrollable that often leads to reckless behavior.
What is Mania?
A category of anti-anxiety medication that is addictive and should therefore be used sparingly.
What are benzodiazepines?