Anxiety Disorders
What is the diagnosis of an individual experiencing the symptoms of difficulty to control the worry, restlessness, being easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbances?
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
This disorder is characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life. To receive a diagnosis, the symptoms must last for at least two weeks.
What is Clinical Depression?
This disorder causes a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotion, as well as marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts. There are 9 criteria for diagnosis, but only 5 need to be present.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
To meet the criteria for this disorder, an individual must have experienced at least 2 of the following symptoms for a significant time during a 1-month period, with at least one being delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech: Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized speech, Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, Negative symptoms (i.e., diminished emotional expression or motivation).
What is Schizophrenia?
A state or episode of euphoria or frenzied activity in which people may have an exaggerated belief that the world is theirs for the taking.
What is mania?
What is the diagnosis of an individual experiencing the symptoms of marked fear or disquietude about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny by others; the individual fears that he or she will act in a way or show symptoms that will be negatively evaluated.
What is Social Anxiety.
Individuals who have symptoms characteristic of a depressive disorder (e.g. - major depressive disorder), but do not meet the full criteria for any of them
What is Other Specified Depressive Disorders (OSDD).
This disorder is characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other people's feelings. They also struggle with handling criticism, feelings of inadequacy, and low self-esteem.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by a mix of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations and/or delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression, mania, and/or hypomania.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
This symptom category must be met in Bipolar I versus Bipolar II.
What is Manic Episode?
This disorder is characterized by recurrent panic attacks. In addition, at least one panic attack is followed by one month or more of the person fearing that they will have more attacks, causing them to change their behavior, which often includes avoiding situations that might induce an attack.
What is Panic Disorder?
This disorder causes a depressed mood that lasts for most of the day, for most days in a row, for at least two years in adults. A mild to moderate long-term form of depression.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder/Dysthymia?
This disorder is characterized by a persistent pattern of disregard for and violation of others' rights. People with this disorder often manipulate others for personal gain, lack empathy, and seldom feel remorse for their actions. They struggle to develop stable interpersonal relationships and experience significant impairments in social and occupational functioning throughout their lifetime.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
What is one key feature that defines Psychotic Disorders that are fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence; content may vary in themes of persecutory, referential, somatic, religious, grandiose.
What is Delusions.
The differentiation between manic and hypo-manic.
What is severity of impairment.
This anxiety disorder is characterized by a person's inability to speak in certain social settings such as at school, work, or in the community. It usually starts during childhood and, if left untreated, can persist into adulthood.
What is Selective Mutism?
What is the diagnosis of an individual experiencing the symptoms of markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or most activities most of the day, nearly everyday; significant weight loss when not dieting (5% body weight in a month); insomnia or hypersomnia; feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt.
What is Major Depressive Disorder.
This disorder is marked by a long-term pattern of distrust and suspicion of others without adequate reason to be suspicious. People with this condition often believe that others are trying to demean, harm or threaten them.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
What is one key feature that defines Psychotic Disorders that are perception-like experiences that occur without an external stimulus; they are vivid and clear, with the full force and impact of normal perceptions, and not under voluntary control.
What are Hallucinations?
A mineral salt-based medication often prescribed to treat manic symptoms in patients with Bipolar I disorder.
What is lithium?
This anxiety disorder causes someone to fear being in situations where escape may be difficult or embarrassing, or help might not be available in the event of panic symptoms. The fear is out of proportion to the actual situation and lasts generally six months or more and causes problems in functioning.
What is Agoraphobia.
A group of second-generation antidepressant drugs that increase serotonin activity specifically, without affecting other neurotransmitters.
What are selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)?
Pattern of persistent avoidance of social relationships (due to a preference to be alone) and a restricted range of emotional expression.
What is schizoid personality disorder?
What is one key feature that defines Psychotic Disorders that are typically inferred from the individual's communication; the individual may switch from one topic to another; answers to questions may be obliquely related or completely unrelated.
What are disorganized thinking (speech).
The most common comorbidity in Bipolar I Disorder.
What is any anxiety disorder?
FIY: This includes panic attacks, social phobia, or a specific phobia, occurs in approximately 75% of individuals with bipolar disorder.