Anxiety Disorders
A normal feeling people experience when faced with a threat or when stressed
What is Anxiety
This is the most common mood disorder. This can come on without any apparent cause but in some cases a distressing event might trigger this condition.
What is Major Depressive Disorder
This is the most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorder in childhood. Boys are more likely than girls to develop this disorder. People with this disorder are easily distracted by sights, sounds, and other things in their environment.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
A normal response to life events. This helps us understand and adapt our behaviors.
What is everyday stress
This medication can be prescribed by a doctor to treat Anxiety Disorders and Mood Disorders (ex. Major Depressive Disorder). These medications are not addictive.
What are antidepressants
Which mental illness changes a mood based on the time of year?
Seasonal Affective Disorder
What is this disorder: A dissociative disorder that is characterized by alternating between multiple identities.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
This disorder has two extreme mood swings - from depression and sadness to excitement. People with this disorder experience recurrent episodes of these mood swings if untreated.
What is Bipolar Disorder
Seeing or hearing things that aren't there.
What are hallucinations
What is Munchausen Syndrome?
When someone induces symptoms of illnesses in or on themselves.
What disorder do you avoid places/social situations because it may trigger anxiety?
What is panic disorder.
An excellent coping skill for depression.
What is exercise
People who have this disorder experience persistent, recurrent, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts. They also try to stop the thoughts of anxiety by repeating ritualized behaviors.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Avoidance of social interactions, contacts, and relationships with family and friends, with neighbors on an individual level, and with “society at large” on a broader level.
What is social isolation
An eating condition where people eat an uncontrollably large amount of food and then force puke it back up.
What is Bulimia.
People with this disorder worry constantly about themselves or their loved ones, financial disaster, their health, work, or personal relationships. These people experience physical symptoms.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder
10 percent of new mothers are diagnosed with this disorder. Mothers with this illness find it difficult to cope with everyday life. We didn't talk a lot about this in class.
What is Postpartum Depression
When someone has this disorder they experience delusions and/or hallucinations.
What is Schizophrenia
False belief of guilt, grandeur, under outside control, etc
What are delusions
A form of psychotherapy in which a group of patients meet to describe and discuss their problems together under the supervision of a therapist.
What is group therapy
This disorder is the fear that others will judge everything they do negatively. They are easily embarrassed in social situations. They may feel flawed or worthless if there is any sign of poor performance.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder
Bipolar, Major Depressive Disorder, and other disorders are in this category. The primary disturbance for these disorders are disturbances in emotions.
What are Mood Disorders
Symptoms of this disorder may include nightmares or unwanted memories of the trauma, avoidance of situations that bring back memories of the trauma, heightened reactions, anxiety, or depressed mood.
What is PTSD
Impaired contact with reality and having symptoms of hallucinations and delusions.
What is Psychosis
This activity is an excellent alternative treatment for depression.
What is exercise