Anxiety Disorders
What type of anxiety does this define:
A person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
generalized anxiety disorder
What is major depressive disorder?
Two or more weeks of five or more symptoms, at least one of which is either a depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure
What is binge-eating disorder?
Excessive eating followed by distress, disgust, or guilt
What is Schizophrenia?
Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression
What is delirium?
confused thinking and reduced awareness of surroundings to a severe extent
What type of anxiety does this define:
A person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease
illness anxiety
What is bipolar disorder?
A person alternates between the lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania
What is anorexia nervosa?
Eating disorder where a person keeps a starvation diet while staying 15% or more underweight
What does it mean what a person experiences psychosis?
It means they lose contact with reality and expeirnece irrational ideas and distorted perceptions
What is acrophobia?
An extreme/irrational fear of heights
what is agoraphobia?
fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places where one feels as though they have loss all control and panic
What is mania?
A hyperactive, wildly optimistic state of mind
What is bulimia nervosa?
An eating disorder where a person alternates between binging and purging
What is a hallucination?
False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus
What is zoophobia?
An extreme/irrational fear of animals
What is rumination?
overthinking about one's problems and their causes (compulsive fretting)
What is a common misconception about bipolar disorder?
A person with mood disorder constantly switches from a manic to a depressed mood throughout the day.
***Manic and depressed episodes last from days to months***
What is the difference beteen bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder
Binge eating disorder is not accompanied by the act of purging after excessive eating
What are delusions?
False beliefs, often of persecutions or grandeur
What is a panic disorder?
An anxiety disorder where one experiences uncontrollable minute long episodes of intense dread. In these episodes, a person experiences terror and intense chest pains, choking, etc.
what is the difference between hallucinations and delusions?
hallucinations= false sensory experiences
delusions= false beliefs