Mood Disorders
This condition causes extended periods of mania, in which one may experience intense euphoria or irritability, as well as periods of depression, in which one may experience overwhelming hopelessness. Famous people with this condition include Ye and Mariah Carey.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
These beliefs are consistent and unchanging no matter what evidence is presented. They can be persecutory, referential, grandiose.
What are delusions?
This condition is characterized by recurrent and persistent unwanted thoughts as well as repeated behaviors that the person experiencing the condition feels driven to do in response to the intrusive thoughts or rules they apply to themselves.
What is OCD or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
This drug, usually inhaled through smoke or ingested infused food known as an edible, was legalized in California in 2016.
What is marijuana, cannabis, weed or any other name for a plant compound containing THC?
This mental disorder causes excessive worry.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
This condition, which affects women after giving birth, typically begins two weeks to a month after delivery and can cause acute sadness, as well as an inability of connecting to the newborn baby.
What is postpartum depression?
This ancient treatment for psychosis involved drilling or scraping a hole in the human skull.
What is trepanning?
This condition, which some theorize former President Donald Trump had, causes someone to have delusions of grandeur and a inflated sense of status.
What is Narcissistic personality disorder?
This plant, which is now best known for its low concentration of the psychoactive alkaloid cocaine, was used by many indigenous cultures, including the Incas who chewed it with lime (the alkaline not the fruit).
What is the coca plant?
This section of the autism spectrum typically manifests in children through speaking at an early age, connecting more with adults then other kids, and a large vocabulary.
What is High Functioning Autism?
This disorder tends to cause sadness in the winters and anxiety in the summer, though in recent years, its validity has been questioned by studies that show sun exposure has no impact on depression or anxiety.
What is seasonal depression?
This brain chemical, whose dysfunction is theorized to be a cause for schizophrenia, is portrayed in media to be the main chemical that causes pleasure, however science tends to agree that it causes motivational salience.
What is dopamine?
This disorder, manifests as a consistent and pervasive mistrust of others, as well as hypersensitivity and delusions. Some suspect that both Josef Stalin and Richard Nixon had this condition.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder or PPD
This South American psychoactive brew has been used for centuries in religious ceremonies or socially among friends. It contains the active compound DMT and has gained recent popularity among Europeans and Americans.
What is Ayahuasca?
This French artist, known for his painting, "A Starry Night," and for the fact that he cut off his own ear, struggled with severe depression and was not at all successful during his lifetime.
Who is Vincent Van-Gough
This disorder is twice as likely to manifest in women as compared to men, and whose symptoms are described by the DSM 5 as feeling sad, empty, and hopeless for most of the day nearly every day. Other symptoms include weight fluctuation, difficulty thinking or difficulties sleeping.
What is major depressive disorder.
What is "A Beautiful Mind"?
This poorly studied personality disorder, which has a name similar to a common psychotic disorder, causes people to detach from social relationships and be emotionally cold.
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder
This colorless, sweet-scented gas is used in dentistry, creates a mild euphoric effect. It is commonly taken in the form of whippits, and inhaled from whipped cream cans.
What is nitrous oxide?
This movie, that deals with the topics of mental health and trauma, follows a therapist who is stalked by a demon who possesses people around her, and flashing her the eponymous facial expression.
What is Smile?
This drug, commonly a salt of an element with the atomic number of 3, is used as a psychiatric medication to treat many mood disorders. Its side effects include increased thirst, shakiness of the hands and increased urination.
What is lithium?
This situational cause of psychotic disorders is known to be an emotional response to intensely distressing events such as witnessing a death or experiencing violence.
What is trauma?
This treatment for personality disorders, which has hundreds, if not thousands of variations including cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, or the controversial and pseudoscientific conversion.
What is psychotherapy or talk therapy?
This drug, which is naturally obtained from placing a shallow slash on the bud of a poppy and collecting and dehydrating the sap, was the cause of two wars in Qing dynasty China.
What is opium?
This herb, whose dried appearance is similar to cannabis, is common in Italian and Mexican cuisines.
What is Oregano?