Riddle Me This
A feeling, a sensation, a response, a mood; this is what you express to laugh or brood
Emotions
A mood disorder in which a person experiences two or more weeks of unhappy moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest in most activities
Major Depressive Disorder/Depression
Excessive fear of enclosed spaces
Claustrophobia
Dory in Finding Nemo/Dory suffers from what?
Short Term Memory Loss
A persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation.
Phobia
In old age I'm lost, in trauma I'm tossed. What am I?
Memory
A mood disorder where a person experiences both extremely happy and extremely depressed episodes
Bipolar Disorder
Fear of spiders
Arachnophobia
In 2012, actor Bradley Cooper stars in the movie ‘Silver Linings Playbook’. In this movie, Cooper’s character Pat struggles managing his relationships due to his emotional outbursts. What disorder does Pat become labelled with in this movie?
Bipolar disorder
Feeling of fear or apprehension of what is in the future
Anxiety
It makes you nervous, it makes you tense; you get scared in an emotional sense
Stress
Recurring, unwanted thoughts, ideas or sensations that make the person feel driven to do something repetitively
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder/OCD
Excessive fear of heights
Acrophobia
In 2001, Russell Crow stars in ‘A Beautiful Mind’. The movie is a biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash; a mathematical savant who is faced with constant challenges due to his condition. Which mental illness befell John Nash?
schizophrenia
Dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia are types of this
Learning Disabilities
Acquiring knowledge or applying a skill set, this is the ability of wit and intellect
Intelligence
Mental disorders in which everyday social interactions cause irrational anxiety, fear, self-consciousness and embarrassment
Social Anxiety
Fear of crowds, open and public spaces
Agoraphobia
In a 1975 comedy-drama, Jack Nicholson’s character “Mac” McMurphy helped his friends to escape a psych ward and Nurse Ratched’s unpleasant medical methods. Together they stole a hospital bus, commandeered a boat and went deep sea fishing. What was the name of this film based on a 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A visual, verbal or physical illusion that a person sees, hears or feels and mistakes for reality while under the influence of drugs, or due some mental illnesses.
Hallucination
Behaviours and characters and mental cues, it is the crux of who you are, it is what makes you you
Personality
A disorder in which a person is out of touch with reality and experiences hallucinations, delusions and disorganised behaviour
Schizophrenia
Fear of darkness
Nyctophobia
In the classic movie ‘Rain Man’ starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, what disorder is Hoffman’s character Raymond living with?
FG syndrome -- Laurence Kim Peek (November 11, 1951 – December 19, 2009) was an American savant. Known as a "megasavant", he had an exceptional memory, but he also experienced social difficulties, possibly resulting from a developmental disability related to congenital brain abnormalities.
Regression, Projection, Rationalization, and Denial are all examples of D_____ M_______
Defence Mechanisms