Serious mental disorder characterized by extreme mental disruption and defective or lost contact with reality.
What is Psychosis
100
Persistant, uncontrollable and nonspecific
What is General Anxiety Disorder
100
Long-lasting sad mood the interferes with the ability to function or feel pleasure
What is major-depressive disorder
100
Abuse of behavior altering drugs. For example an alcoholic.
What is Substance-Related Disorders
100
A Canadian centered mental disorder characterized by delusions and cannibalism.
What is Windigo Psychosis
200
Disorders characterized by unrealistic anxiety and other problems, less severe than psychosis.
What is Neurosis
200
Sudden and inexplainable anxiety attacks, consisting of difficulty breathing, dizziness, terror and the feeling of impending doom
What is Panic Disorder
200
Contains episodes of mania (unreasonable hyperactivity) and episodes of depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder.
200
Presence of two or more personalities in one person at different times.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder
200
In experimental psychology - factors that contribute irrelevant data and confuse the results.
What is extraneous variables.
300
Legal term used to define people who should not be held responsible for their actions due to mental illness.
What is Insanity.
300
Intense, irrational fear of a specific object or situation
What is Phobia
300
Mistaken beliefs based on misinterpretations of reality.
What is Delusions.
300
Extreme disregard for and violation of rights for others. Also known as psychopaths and sociopaths.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder.
400
This is the Axis of the DSM focusing on Clinical Disorders
What is Axis 1
400
The fear of having a panic attack in public, person may be afraid to leave the house or do normal activities
What is Agoraphobia
400
This subtype of schizophrenia involves incoherent speech, flat or exaggerated emotions and social withdrawal.
What is Disorganized Schizophrenic
400
Server instability in emotion and sel control. Very difficult to diagnose.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder.
500
This is the Axis of the DSM focusing on Global assessment of functioning
What is Axis V
500
An anxiety disorder that involves persistent anxiety-provoking thoughts and/or irresistible rituals.
What is OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
500
These are the five areas of disturbance in schizophrenic patients.
What is perception, language, thoughts, emotion and behavior.
500
The presence of two or more mental disorders in one person at the same time. For example someone suffering from both anxiety and major depressive disorder.