Name that Disorder
I am so afraid of throwing up that I won't drink alcohol and am mortified of eating food that has expired.
What is emetophobia?
This therapy helps people overcome anxiety by facing their fears and learning to tolerate the anxiety they feel while in that situation.
What is Exposure therapy?
This neurochemical is thought to be overactive in the brains of people with schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
She struggled with an eating disorder and recovered very well (and is related to someone you know).
Who is Alexis?
This factor plays a role in almost all disorders we discussed in class this semester.
What is genetics?
Is there someone in the other room talking about me? It sounds like their arguing about how ugly I am.
What is Schizophrenia?
In this therapy, people learn how to manage their drinking problems without having to give up drinking entirely. They also discover their own reasons for why they might want to reduce their alcohol intake.
What is Moderation in Drinking approaches or Motivational Interviewing?
The fear center of the brain.
What is the amygdala?
She was one of the first publicized cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder that made the disorder famous and may have led to a lot of "copy cat" cases of the illness.
Who was Sybil?
This is the one mental illness in the DSM-5 for which a specific cause must be present in order to diagnose someone with this disorder.
What is PTSD?
I can't stop thinking about my eye brows. They just don't look right to me. I think I might just have them surgically removed!
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
A young teenager with anorexia is being encouraged to give her disorder a name and to realize when the voice of anorexia is around. Her therapist is likely trying this form of therapy with her.
What is narrative therapy (or 3rd wave cognitive-behavioral therapy)
The S in SSRI.
What is Serotonin?
We discussed this public figure in class as a possible example of Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Who is Donald Trump?
A person with schizophrenia grows up in poverty and experiences great stress as a result of their living condition, mostly likely contributing to the onset of their disorder. This person exemplifies this particular causal theory for schizophrenia.
The sociogenic hypothesis.
He is really smart in school but he cannot figure out simple math problems. He keeps mixing up his digits and does not seem to know how to add, subtract, multiply, or divide.
What is Dyscalculia (Specific Mathematics Learning Disorder)?
I am being encouraged to realize that I often think things are my fault when they really are not. This kind of thinking makes me depressed and my therapist is trying to get me to think more rationally. My therapist is likely practicing this form of therapy with me.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral therapy (CBT)?
Unusually high levels of activity between the caudate nucleus and the orbitofrontal cortex seems to be the central problem in this disorder.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
This psychologist publicly acknowledged having Borderline Personality Disorder herself. She is also widely known as an expert on the causation and treatment of this disorder.
Who is Marsha Linehan?
The fact that these disorders were practically nonexistent in non-Western countries until the introduction of television supports a sociocultural causal theory for these disorders.
What are eating disorders?
I feel like I am on top of the world for two or three days, as if I can do anything. Then I am so down in the dumps all I feel like doing is sleeping all day. It keeps going like that, back and forth for years now. I am likely suffering from this disorder.
What is Cyclothymia?
A group of patients with schizophrenia are learning how to fill out a job application and ride the bus to work. They are experiencing this kind of therapy.
What is Social Skills Training?
These two substances show "cross-tolerance", meaning cravings for one can cause increased cravings for the other.
What are nicotine and alcohol?
We discussed this case in class, a woman who was always afraid of having various diseases and would go to the doctor a lot to have them checked out (later, I told you that her son had an anxiety disorder as well).
Who was Michelle?
Significant corporal punishment or even physical abuse has been implicated in the causation of this childhood disorder.
What is conduct disorder?