Category 1
A group of mental health disorders whose main symptom is anxiety.
What is anxiety disorder?
Social shame associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person.
What is Stigma?
A mental state in which a person's perception of reality is impaired.
What is Psychosis?
The uncontrollable urge to to perform an act.
This is caused by chronic, reduces blood flow to the brain- usually as the result of a stroke or series of strokes.
What is Vascular Dementia?
A state of mind in which a person copes with and adjusts to the stressors of everyday living.
What is Mental Health?
A false or fixed belief that is not based on reality.
What is a Delusion?
A progressive, degenerative disease that gradually destroys nerve cells in most areas of the brain and causes thinking and memory to become seriously impaired.
What is Alzheimer's Disease and related dementia's?
A group of related brain disorders that cause unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function.
What is Bi-Polar?
What is Dementia with Lewy Bodies?
An intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety, terror, or dread for no obvious reason.
What is Panic?
A physical reaction that that occurs when a person abusing a substance stops taking it.
What is Drug Withdrawal?
A exaggerates or abnormal expression of physical or emotional well-being that is not based on reality or truth.
What is Euphoria?
Behaviours, gestures, actions, and words that usually originate as a response to an illness, infection, or physical discomfort.
What are Responsive Behaviours?
A brain disorder that is caused by the lack of Thiamine (vitamin B1) it affects the nervous system, including the brain. It is usually associated with heavy alcohol consumption.
What is Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome?
A group of disorders that involving rigid and socially unacceptable behaviours.
What is Personality Disorders?
A disorder that causes the person to repeatedly violate the personal or property rights of others and the basic expectation of society.
What is Conduct Disorder?
Collecting things and putting them away in a guarded manner.
What is Hoarding?
A type of stressor that is healthy and gives one a feeling of fulfillment or other positive feelings.
What is Eustress?
Altered body image perceptions that lead to disturbances in eating Behaviours and an abnormal concern with body weight and size.
What is Feeding and Eating Disorders?
Seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting or feeling something that is not real.
What is a Hallucination?
An extremely complex group of mental health disorders characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disturbances in thinking, and withdrawal from social activity.
What is Schizophrena Spectrum Disorders?
A state of temporary mental disorientation that can occur suddenly.
This refers to the inability to recall people, time or places as a result of physiological changes to the brain, disease process, or substance-induced factors.
What is Disorientation?
A persistent thought or desire.
What is a Obsession?