What's the Diagnosis?
A person struggles with maintaining attention, controlling impulses, and excessive activity that interferes with daily functioning.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
This anxiety disorder involves excessive, difficult-to-control worry about multiple everyday situations, such as finances, work, and health.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
This mood state involves abnormally elevated or irritable mood, increased energy, impulsivity, and a greatly reduced need for sleep.
Mania
This condition involves episodes of persistent depressed mood or loss of interest, along with other symptoms that significantly interfere with daily life.
Major depressive disorder
This term refers to a repetitive behavior or mental ritual performed to reduce anxiety or prevent a feared event.
Compulsion
This personality disorder involves instability in relationships, self-image, and emotions, often accompanied by an intense fear of abandonment.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
This psychiatric disorder can involve hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and difficulties with everyday functioning.
Schizophrenia
This phobia involves an intense fear of spiders, even when the spider poses little or no actual danger.
Arachnophobia
A person experiences unwanted intrusive thoughts and feels compelled to perform repetitive rituals to relieve their anxiety.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
This anxiety disorder involves fear of situations such as crowded places, public transportation, or being outside alone because escape or help might be difficult.
Agoraphobia
This form of bipolar disorder is defined by the occurrence of at least one full manic episode.
Bipolar I disorder
This pattern of depression occurs during particular seasons, most commonly beginning in fall or winter.
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
This common OCD theme involves excessive fear of germs, dirt, or dangerous substances.
Contamination obsessions
This disorder is characterized by patterns of grandiosity, an excessive need for admiration, and difficulties with empathy.
Narcissistic personality disorder
This symptom involves a firmly held belief that persists despite strong evidence contradicting it.
Delusion
Elevators, cramped rooms, and enclosed spaces may trigger intense anxiety in someone with this phobia.
Claustrophobia
Restricting food intake, having a significantly low body weight, and experiencing an intense fear of gaining weight are characteristic of this eating disorder.
Anorexia nervosa
This automatic survival response activates the sympathetic nervous system, increasing heart rate and preparing the body to confront or escape danger.
Fight-or-flight response
Experiencing four or more distinct mood episodes within a 12-month period is known by this bipolar disorder specifier.
Rapid cycling
This depressive disorder involves severe mood symptoms occurring before menstruation, with symptoms typically improving shortly after menstruation begins.
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)
This specialized treatment involves gradually confronting feared situations while resisting compulsive rituals.
Exposure and response prevention (ERP)
This personality disorder involves pervasive distrust and suspicion, with others' motives frequently interpreted as malicious.
Paranoid personality disorder
Medications such as risperidone, olanzapine, and aripiprazole belong to this drug class commonly used to treat psychotic symptoms.
Antipsychotics
This phobia involves an excessive fear of seeing blood and may sometimes be associated with fainting.
Hemophobia
A person experiences intense fear of embarrassment or negative judgment in social situations and avoids them for six months or longer.
Social anxiety disorder
A child speaks comfortably at home but consistently cannot speak in particular social situations, such as school, despite being capable of speaking.
Selective mutism
Under standard diagnostic criteria, a manic episode generally lasts at least this many days unless hospitalization becomes necessary.
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Fluoxetine, sertraline, and paroxetine belong to this medication class commonly used to treat depression.
SSRIs
A person repeatedly returns to the stove to make sure it is turned off, despite already knowing they checked it. This is an example of this OCD-related behavior.
Checking compulsion
A person consistently shows little interest in close relationships, prefers solitary activities, and appears emotionally detached
Schizoid personality disorder
Speech that repeatedly jumps between unrelated subjects, making conversation difficult to follow, may be classified under this schizophrenia symptom category.
Disorganized speech
This phobia can cause someone to avoid vaccinations and blood draws because they fear injections.
Trypanophobia
Someone spends at least six months fearing they have a serious undiagnosed illness despite having few or no physical symptoms and receiving medical reassurance.
Illness anxiety disorder
When social anxiety is restricted to public speaking or performing in front of others, clinicians may use this diagnostic specifier.
Performance-only specifier
This clinical term describes a relatively stable mood state in which a person is not experiencing a significant manic, hypomanic, or depressive episode.
Euthymia
This childhood depressive disorder involves severe recurring temper outbursts and persistent irritability between outbursts.
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD)
When a person with OCD believes their obsessive fears are probably true, clinicians may use this insight specifier.
With poor insight
Paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders belong to this diagnostic cluster, often described as odd or eccentric.
Cluster A
This psychiatric disorder combines symptoms of schizophrenia with major mood episodes, while also involving periods of psychosis occurring without a major mood episode.
Schizoaffective disorder
An intense fear of clowns is known by this term.
Coulrophobia