Childhood & Spectrum Disorders
This neurodevelopmental disorder is often overdiagnosed in school-aged boys, and underdiagnosed in school-aged girls.
What is Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder?
*characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity inappropriate for a person's age*
Symptoms of this mood disorder are persistent feelings of sadness, loss of interest in activities, changes in sleep patterns, and fatigue.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
The intense and irrational fear of something that disrupts daily life.
What is Specific Phobia?
Jane lived in a small town for 6 months. One day, she saw her picture on a missing person report on the News. Under her picture, it said that Diane is missing from her home two states away, and worked as a first grade teacher. She had no recollection of her life as Diane.
This eating disorder has the highest mortality rate of any other mental health illness. Individuals suffering from this disorder restrict their caloric intake severely to avoid gaining weight; additionally, they often have a distorted view of themselves.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
This disorder is correlated with an excessive amount of dopamine.
What is Schizophrenia?
This type of Bipolar disorder requires the presence of hypomanic episodes and depressive episodes; this less severe form of the disorder is disruptive, but is less likely to lead to hospitalization.
What is Bipolar II?
This culture-bound anxiety disorder is characterized by intense crying, rage, grief, trembling, hyperventillating, and dissociative symptoms like temporary amnesia, and feelinig disconnected from reality. Individuals outiside of the Caribbean and Latin America are not at risk for this disorder.
What is Ataque de Nervios?
The symptoms for this disorder include gaps in memory that are not due to forgetfulness, the experience of switching, different handwriting and allergies. Patients with this disorder often have a history of severe traumatic experiences.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This Cluster A Personality disorder is often characterized by severe distrust and suspicion of others.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
These false perceptions are often associated with Schizophrenia and similar disorders. They can manifest in hearing voices, seeing things that are not there, or feeling phantom touches. Taste and smell may also be influenced, but these are more rare.
What are Hallucinations?
This type of episode is characterized by elevated mood, inflated self-esteem, grandiosity, decreased need for sleep, racing thoughts, and impulsive, risk-taking behavior.
What is Mania or Manic Episode?
Individuals often relate this disorder with perfectionism, but that isn't an accurate representation. In reality, individuals with this disorder are plagued by repetitive and distressing thoughts which they alleviate through irrational, repetitive, and unrelated behaviors.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
One of the largest populations to be diagnosed with this disorder is combat veterans.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Beth was diagnosed with this eating disorder after her family noticed that she would make herself throw up after eating large meals.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
These reality-contradicting beliefs are also characteristic of Schizophrenia and related disorders and often result in paranoia and isolation.
What are delusions?
This depressive disorder cannot be diagnosed until a patient has experienced symptoms for more than 2 years.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
While television shows depict this disorder as the fear of leaving one's house; but in reality, it is the fear of being in situations where help might not be available, or it is difficult to escape.
What is Agoraphobia?
PTSD has four types of symptoms. This type includes the staying away from people, places or things associated with the trauma and emotional detachment.
What are Avoidance Symptoms?
This cluster of personality disorders includes Antisocial, Histrionic, Borderline, & Narcissistic Personality Disorders; often categorized as "dramatic, emotional, and erratic" personality types.
What is Cluster B?
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
This more severe form of Bipolar Disorder is more extreme, and often results in hospitalization; however, diagnosis does not require the presence of depressive episodes.
What is Bipolar I?
This culturebound social anxiety disorder is only found in Japan and South Korea; individuals with this disorder have the irrational fear that their appearance, actions, or body functions might offend others.
What is Taijin Kyufusho? (TK)
PTSD has four categories of symptoms. This type includes Flashbacks, Nightmares, and repetitive memories that are difficult to control.
What are Intrusive Symptoms?
Someone with this personality disorder is overly obsessed with orderliness and perfectionsim. They often lack the ability to let others help, and may miss deadlines due to over-detailing.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?