Anxiety Disorders
This disorder is characterized by excessive anxiety and worry about a number of activities or events that are present more days than not for a minimum of 6 months.
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?
This is a long-lasting disorder in which a person experiences uncontrollable and recurring thoughts (obsessions), engages in repetitive behaviors (compulsions), or both.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
An individual with this disorder has significant anxiety and discomfort about being embarrassed, humiliated, rejected or looked down on in social interactions. People with this disorder will try to avoid the situation or endure it with great anxiety.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This disorder has sub-types, with all causing periodic, intense emotional states that affect a person's mood, energy and ability to function. Characterized by episodes of mania, hypomania, and/or depression. Sub-types differ based on intensity.
What is Bipolar Disorder.
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?
People with this disorder have two or more separate identities. These identities, called alters, control their behavior at various times. Each alter has its own personal history, traits, likes and dislikes. Additionally, the term "system" is commonly used to represent people with this disorder.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
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?
One of the sub-types of bipolar disorder. Characterized by fluctuating mood swings that are less severe than the other sub-types. Mood changes can happen spontaneously and within the same day. Symptoms include periods of hypomania and mild depression that last for at least two years.
What is Cyclothymia?
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?
This disorder is characterized by the presence of one or more delusions for a month or longer in a person who, except for the delusions and their behavioral ramifications, does not appear odd and is not functionally impaired.
What is Delusional Disorder?
Individuals with this eating disorder limit the volume and/or variety of foods they consume. This is motivated by a lack of interest in eating or food, sensory sensitivity, and/or a fear of aversive consequences (e.g., of choking or vomiting) rather than a fear of gaining weight or distress regarding body shape/size.
What is Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder?
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?
This disorder causes severe mood swings, irritability, depression, or anxiety in a week or two before your period starts. Symptoms usually go away within two to three days after your period starts.
What is Premenstrual Dysphoric 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?
This disorder is characterized by the sudden onset of psychotic behavior that lasts less than 1 month followed by complete remission with possible future relapses.
What is Brief Psychotic Disorder?
A common disorder in children and adolescents who are referred to mental health providers for behavioral issues. It is defined by a recurrent pattern of developmentally inappropriate levels of defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures. Individuals with this disorder experience varying levels of dysfunction secondary to oppositionality, vindictiveness, arguments, and aggression.
What is Answer Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
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?
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?
Personality disorders are separated into "clusters", based on certain attributes shared between those specific PD's. Which cluster consists of anxious/inhibited personality disorders (dependent, avoidant, obsessive-compulsive)?
What is Cluster C?
This disorder is characterized by the presence of the symptoms of schizophrenia, but is distinguished from it by its shorter duration, which is at least 1 month but less than 6 months.
What is Schizophreniform Disorder?
A cluster of physical and psychiatric symptoms, such as hallucinations and nausea, exhibited by some individuals when visiting Paris, that can be viewed as a severe form of culture shock.