Symptoms
Low mood, lack of motivation, loss of interest in activities
What are depressive symptoms?
Worrying too much about a variety of things, most days for at least 6 months
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
A group of disorders characterized by symptoms of disruption in consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, motor control, or behavior
What are Dissociative Disorders?
Heredity, DNA, mutations
What are genetic factors?
Many disorders require the patient's symptoms to NOT be caused by this
What is a substance or medical disorder?
Pressured speech, lack of sleep, increased energy and activity levels
What are symptoms of mania?
Intrusion symptoms, negative mood, dissociative symptoms, avoidance symptoms, and arousal symptoms within 1 month of a traumatic event
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
Excessive fear or anxiety related to behavioral disturbances
What are anxiety disorders?
Neurotransmitters, activation of brain structures
What are biological factors?
This is the diagnosis if the patient shows symptoms of mania, not hypomania
What is Bipolar I?
Sweating, heart palpitations, shaking, chest pain, fear of losing control
What are symptoms of a panic attack?
Fear or anxiety about leaving the house, being in public spaces, fear of being unable to escape
What is Agoraphobia?
Periods of mania/hypomania that may alternate with periods of depression
What are bipolar and related disorders?
Social learning theory, operant and classical conditioning, defense mechanisms
What are psychological (behavioral, psychodynamic) factors?
For this diagnosis, the patient must fear something specific, instead of experiencing general anxiety
What is specific phobia?
Heightened startle response, problems concentrating, irritability, reckless behaviors
What are arousal and reactivity symptoms (PTSD)?
Hypomania and maybe some depressive symptoms too
What is Bipolar II?
The development of physiological, psychological, and emotional symptoms following exposure to a stressor or traumatic event
What are trauma and stressor-related disorders?
Race, SES, gender, ethnicity, nationality
What are sociocultural factors?
For this diagnosis specifier, the patient forgets important autobiographical information AND flees to a different location
What is dissociative amnesia with dissociative fugue?
Feeling disconnected from your body, numbness, lack of emotions, the perception that body parts are changing in size
What is depersonalization?
Low mood, lack of motivation, sleep or appetite changes lasting most of the time for at least 2 years
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
What are Depressive Disorders?
Automatic thoughts, maladaptive cognitions, rumination
What are cognitive factors?
If the symptoms last longer than 1 month, it is not acute stress disorder, but ____________ instead
What is PTSD?