A person with this disorder will exhibit a very depressed mood with recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
100
A person with this disorder maintains a dangerously low weight by limiting calories. They fear gaining weight.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
100
A person with this disorder has multiple personalities. It is thought to be caused by trauma and personality switching is triggered by high stress.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
100
A person with this disorder is preoccupied with lists and rules and is an extreme perfectionist. It is related to obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoarding.
What is Obsessive Compulsive PD?
200
In psychopathology, DSM stands for what?
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual?
200
A person with this disorder will experience flashbacks about a previous traumatic event. It is very common in soldiers.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
200
A person with this disorder suffers because of some perceived flaw on their person that no one else sees. They tend to get excessive plastic surgery.
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
200
A person with this disorder cannot recall extensive personal information. This disorder has no real known cause and no real treatment; it stops abruptly.
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
200
A person with this disorder is essentially a career criminal. They have a long history of aggression, promiscuity, and compulsive lying.
What is Antisocial PD?
300
This describes how an individual has a biological predisposition to a mental disorder, but the disorder itself isn’t triggered until the individual encounters a period of stress.
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
300
A person with this disorder will have panic attacks from issues not related to social scrutiny.
What is Panic Disorder?
300
A person with this disorder suddenly loses some aspect of their functioning (e.g. goes blind) or gains a tic.
What is Conversion Disorder?
300
A person who has this type of schizophrenia has auditory and visual hallucinations, but they are not paranoid.
What is Disorganized Schizophrenia?
300
A person with this disorder is overly dramatic. They seek attention and praise, and will often do so by inappropriately playing up their sexuality.
What is Histrionic PD?
400
In America, this woman lead the charge to create asylums separate from prisons. Because of her, 30+ asylums were created in the eastern United States.
Who is Dix?
400
A person with this disorder is afraid of wide, open spaces, because they fear that if they need help, it will be unavailable.
What is Agoraphobia?
400
A person with this disorder has a history of a lot of physical complaints, but has been reassured time and time again that there is nothing physically wrong.
What is Somatization Disorder?
400
A person with this disorder has no memory of personal information and travels to a new location to start a new life. This is common during disasters.
What is Dissociative Fugue?
400
A person with this disorder has the disorder of mood swings. They are unstable and easily bored. Sufferers are overwhelmingly female.
What is Borderline PD?
500
This man lead the European reform of asylums, leading them to unchain the mentally insane and try to treat them as human.
Who is Pinel?
500
A person with this disorder has what is known as “bipolar lite” where they also experience cycles of depression and mania, but not as strongly.
What is Cyclothymia?
500
A person with this disorder misinterprets their body cues and believes they have a very serious illness, though doctors reassure them they do not.
What is Hypochondriasis?
500
A person who has this type of schizophrenia will have disrupted movement. Often it presents as waxy mobility: A patient can be posed into any position and s/he will stay there.
What is Catatonic Schizophrenia?
500
A person with this disorder is completely indifferent to social or sexual relationships, group activities, and praise or criticism. They have a cold affect (emotion).