Anxiety Disorders
In this anxiety disorder, persons grow fearful of leaving their homes or being in public (often accompanied by having panic attacks).
What is Agoraphobia?
This is one of the most common and effective treatments for specific phobias?
What is Exposure therapy?
Which trauma disorder has symptoms that appear very soon after the traumatic event, and last less than 1 month?
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
PTSD patients might be given this treatment, in which they approach things that remind them of the trauma (in real life or through Virtual Reality).
What is Exposure therapy?
According to DSM-V, depressive symptoms must last *this long* to qualify as a "major depressive episode."
What is "two weeks?"
People who are afraid of public speaking, for fear of making a mistake or embarrassing themselves, may have this disorder.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This treatment for anxiety is intended to challenge and change a person's irrational, anxious thoughts.
What is cognitive therapy?
This term refers to each of the "multiple personalities" experienced by those with DID.
What are "alters?"
This treatment can help reduce symptoms of PTSD, but will not "cure" the condition.
What is medication?
This term refers to a general loss of interest/pleasure in formerly enjoyable activities, often suffered by persons with depression.
What is "anhedonia?"
Unexpected, recurring periods of extreme fear, physical symptoms, and feelings of "doom" are typical of this disorder.
What is panic disorder?
Persons with anxiety may try to "self-medicate" with drugs or alcohol, but research tells us that this practice tends to have *this* effect on anxiety.
What is "it increases anxiety?"
These are the three *categories* of symptoms that persons with PTSD usually experience.
What are Re-experiencing, Hyper-arousal, and Avoidance?
This treatment is helpful for permitting Acute Stress and PTSD patients to change the way they think about their trauma.
What is cognitive restructuring/cognitive therapy?
Persons with this anxiety disorder often experience "free floating anxiety," not attached to a specific trigger.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Perhaps unexpectedly, *these* kinds of medications are fairly effective for persons with OCD.
What are antidepressants (SSRIs)?
Persons with this condition will suddenly lose their memory/identity, move to a new location, and start a new life.
What is dissociative fugue state?
This trauma disorder does not have many evidence-based treatments, but fortunately for many patients the disorder can resolve on its own.
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
Major depressive disorder is associated with very low levels of *this* neurotransmitter.
What is serotonin?
In all anxiety disorders, *this* part of the nervous system gets activated.
What is the sympathetic nervous system (flight or flight)?
This treatment is effective for OCD, placing patients in anxious situations, but keeping them from doing their compulsive behaviors.
What is Exposure & Response Prevention?
This kind of dissociative amnesia occurs when a person loses all memory of the trauma -- but their other memories remain intact.
What is localized dissociative amnesia?
This is the final step in treating someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder.
What is integrating the alters into one personality, also called "fusion?"
This disorder is a more chronic, but somewhat less-intense, version of bipolar disorder.
What is cyclothymia?