Anxiety Disorders
This disorder is characterized by excessive worry and fear that interferes with daily functioning.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This mood disorder is characterized by periods of deep sadness, low energy, and loss of interest in activities that were once enjoyable.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by intrusive thoughts that lead to repetitive behaviors or mental acts to reduce anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
This disorder is characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking, often leading to a loss of touch with reality.
What is Schizophrenia?
This disorder involves patterns of disregard for others' rights, often involving deceit, manipulation, and impulsivity.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This disorder involves sudden, intense episodes of fear that peak within minutes and include symptoms like heart palpitations and difficulty breathing.
What is a Panic Disorder?
This disorder involves extreme mood swings, including emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression).
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This disorder involves an excessive preoccupation with perceived flaws or defects in physical appearance, leading to repetitive behaviors like mirror checking.
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
This disorder involves sudden periods of psychosis and mood disturbances, often triggered by trauma or stress.
What is Brief Psychotic Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by instability in relationships, self-image, and emotions, along with impulsive behavior.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This disorder is marked by a constant fear of being judged or embarrassed in social situations.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This type of depression occurs during specific seasons, usually in the winter months, and is often linked to lack of sunlight.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?
This disorder involves hoarding excessive items and difficulty discarding them, often resulting in cluttered living spaces.
What is Hoarding Disorder?
This condition involves false beliefs that someone is plotting against you or trying to harm you, common in disorders like schizophrenia.
What are Paranoid Delusions?
This disorder is marked by excessive need for admiration, a lack of empathy, and a sense of entitlement.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
This disorder involves persistent, irrational fears of specific objects or situations, leading to avoidance behavior.
What is a Specific Phobia?
This mood disorder involves persistent depressive symptoms lasting for at least two years, but not as severe as Major Depression.
What is Dysthymia (Persistent Depressive Disorder)?
This disorder is marked by repetitive pulling out of hair from the body, often causing noticeable hair loss.
What is Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder)?
This type of delusion involves the belief that one has special powers or is an important figure.
What are Grandiose Delusions?
This disorder involves social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation, often leading to isolation.
What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?
This anxiety disorder occurs when someone experiences a traumatic event and then experiences flashbacks, nightmares, or severe anxiety long after the event.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This disorder is characterized by episodes of mania or hypomania that are accompanied by depressive episodes and often involves impaired functioning.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
This disorder involves the recurrent, compulsive picking at one’s skin, often leading to lesions and scarring.
What is Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder?
This disorder involves both mood episodes (depression or mania) and psychotic symptoms like delusions or hallucinations.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by excessive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control, often at the expense of flexibility and efficiency.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?