Personality disorders
When personality traits are so unconventional or inappropriate that they harm ourselves and those around us.
What is a personality disorder?
A category of psychological disorders that involve extreme and disabling moods
What is a mood disorder?
A normal feeling that can become persistent and out of control.
What is anxiety disorder?
When the enjoyment of or dependence on something becomes so excessive that it prevents functioning in a healthy way.
What is an addiction disorder?
A person disconnects from reality
What is psychotic disorder
Severe disturbance, severe sense of distress, and thoughts and feelings that are atypical of the person and impacts their ability to function independently
What is a mental health disorder?
A person that has an extreme distrust of others' intentions, believing others to be "out to get them" in some evil way.
What is a paranoid personality disorder/
A mood disorder are marked by persistent and severe low mood.
What is a depressive disorder?
Fear of being away from the primary caregiver
What is 'separation anxiety'?
An addiction disorder that involves compulsively risking their own money in an attempt to win it back.
What is a gambling disorder?
The state of being disconnected or out of touch with reality
What is psychosis
The leading cause of death for Australians aged 15-24
What is suicide
A person has unstable social relationships, emotions, and conceptions of self. Is impulsive and has a fear of abandonment.
What is a Borderline personality disorder?
The fluctuation between episodes of extremely heightened mood (mania) and episodes of low mood (depressive episodes)
What is Bipolar disorder?
The inability to speak in certain social situations.
What is selective mutism?
Disorders that involve both abuse of or dependence on such things as alcohol or cannabis.
What are 'substance-related disorders'?
The most commonly diagnosed psychotic disorder
Schizophrenia
The most widely used guide to classify and diagnose psychological disorders. It has 21 categories of psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
A person exhibits extreme attention-seeing behaviors and at times inappropriate attempts at sexual seduction.
What is a histrionic personality disorder?
Lasts for two years or more and the symptoms may be less severe than the major depressive disorder.
What is persistent depressive disorder?
Fear of open spaces or crowds
What is agrophobia?
It has its own specific disorder and its own diagnositc criteria with severity based on the criteria of mild, moderate to severe.
What is alcohol addiction?
Rigid beliefs, not easily changed, even when they present strong counterevidence
What are delusions?
45% of Australians will experience this in their lifetime.
What is a mental illness?
A person experiences cognitive and perceptual distortions, discomfort in social relations, and displays abnormal behaviors
What is a schizotypal personality disorder?
Significant mood disturbance in the week prior to menstruation
What is Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Exercise can help people to work off their stress and provide mood-enhancing brain chemicals.
What is a treatment for anxiety?
Painful or undesirable feelings and thoughts when the substance or behaviour is no longer engaged with.
What are withdrawal effects?
Experiences perceived as 'real but there is no stimulation or event in reality. Perceiving something that is not there.
What are hallucinations?
A support service in the community if you want to talk to someone about your mental health.
What is Beyond Blue?
A psychological and social characteristic of the personality disorder
What is a maladaptive personality trait that is consistent?
At least one manic episode to occur in a person's life, alongside other symptoms like extreme goal-directed behavior.
What is bipolar disorder type one.
Repeated and negative thought patterns such as catastrophic thinking.
What is a psychological risk factor?
Relationships, occupations and lifestyle may all be negatively affected.
What are the social effects of addiction?
Strong evidence for genetic risk in the development of schizophrenia. Genetic predisposition for developing the disorder
What is a "risk factor"?
The most at-risk groups for suicide in Australia
Men and indigenous Australians are the most at risk group.
A person exhibits an extreme involvement in the self and holds an excessive sense of self-importance, need to be admired, low empathy, and grandiose ideas.
What is a narcissistic personality disorder?
Similar to mania, except it requires the episode to last for just four days for diagnosis.
What is hypomania?
The response that comes from the sympathetic nervous system triggered by the anxiety disorder?
What is the fight or flight response?
The dopamine reward system reinforces addictive behaviors by releasing pleasurable chemicals strengthening neural networks related to addiction.
What is a biological risk factor?
The presence of two or more symptoms of the psychotic disorder for at least a month.
What is schizophrenia?
The discipline that has undertaken the task of labeling and categorizing psychological disorders
What is the discipline of psychology?