Anxiety-Related Disorders
This disorder involves excessive anxiety and worry about multiple areas of life occurring more days than not for at least 6 months.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Recurrent intrusive thoughts and/or repetitive behaviors intended to reduce anxiety characterize this disorder.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
This disorder may develop following exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence.
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?
This disorder involves an inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually related to trauma or stress
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
This disorder involves one or more distressing physical symptoms accompanied by excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors related to those symptoms.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
A person suddenly experiences intense fear, heart palpitations, sweating, trembling, and fear of dying. If recurrent unexpected episodes are followed by persistent worry or behavioral change, this diagnosis may apply.
What is Panic Disorder?
Persistent difficulty discarding possessions, regardless of their actual value, is central to this disorder.
What is Hoarding Disorder?
Symptoms resembling PTSD occur following a trauma but last from 3 days to 1 month.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
A person experiences persistent feelings of being detached from their own thoughts, body, or surroundings while reality testing remains intact.
What is Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder?
Neurological-like symptoms such as paralysis, blindness, seizures, or weakness occur but are incompatible with recognized neurological conditions.
What is Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder (Conversion Disorder)?
An individual avoids buses, crowds, theaters, and being outside the home alone because escape might be difficult if panic-like symptoms occur.
What is Agoraphobia?
Repetitive hair pulling resulting in hair loss, along with repeated attempts to stop, characterizes this condition.
What is Trichotillomania?
Emotional or behavioral symptoms occur in response to an identifiable stressor within 3 months and are out of proportion to what would normally be expected.
What is Adjustment Disorder?
The presence of two or more distinct personality states combined with recurrent gaps in memory characterizes this disorder.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
A person is excessively preoccupied with having or developing a serious illness despite having few or no significant physical symptoms.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
An 8-year-old consistently refuses to speak at school even though she speaks normally and comfortably at home.
What is Selective Mutism?
A client repeatedly picks at their skin, causing lesions, and has unsuccessfully attempted to stop.
What is Excoriation Disorder?
In children younger than 6, this disorder involves a consistent pattern of emotionally withdrawn behavior toward adult caregivers following extreme insufficient care.
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?
A person suddenly travels away from home and cannot recall important autobiographical information, sometimes assuming a new identity. This phenomenon is specified as this.
What is Dissociative Amnesia with dissociative fugue?
A caregiver intentionally falsifies or produces illness in a child in order to present the child as sick. The diagnosis applies to the caregiver and is called this.
What is Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another?
A client fears embarrassment during conversations, eating in public, and meeting unfamiliar people. They recognize the fear is excessive but have avoided these situations for more than a year.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
A person is convinced that a barely noticeable facial feature makes them hideous. They repeatedly check mirrors, compare themselves with others, and seek cosmetic procedures.
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
Unlike PTSD, this diagnosis does not require exposure to threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence; instead it occurs following a stressful life event such as divorce, job loss, or relocation.
What is Adjustment Disorder?
A client reports feeling as though they are watching themselves from outside their body but knows the experience is only a feeling and has not actually left their body. This preservation of _____ helps distinguish the disorder from a psychotic disorder.
What is reality testing?
Unlike illness anxiety disorder, this diagnosis emphasizes significant physical symptoms plus disproportionate thoughts, anxiety, or behaviors concerning those symptoms.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?