Numbers
In PTSD, the number of needed re-experiencing symptoms, followed by the number of needed avoidance symptoms, followed by the number needed of mood/cognitive symptoms , followed by the number of needed arousal symptoms.
What is 1,1, 2, 2?
The fear of heights.
What is acrophobia?
This event-specifier can be added to any mental health disorder if the event occurs in conjunction with the disorder. Hint: You can't use this specifier for panic disorder.
What is "with panic attacks"?
This disorder was previously allowed only in children but is now diagnosable in adults.
What is separation anxiety disorder?
This panic attack symptom is defined as feeling as if the world around you may not be real.
What is derealization?
The number of panic symptoms that a person must have to qualify as a panic attack.
What is at least 4?
The fear of spiders.
What is arachnophobia?
A specifier for PTSD in which the individual does not express symptoms until 6 months or more after event?
What is "with delayed expression"?
In social anxiety disorder, children's fear must take place in the presence of these individuals.
What are "their peers"?
This specific phobia is related to the fear of flying.
What is aerophobia?
The amount of time that social avoidance symptoms must be present to gain a diagnosis of social anxiety disorder?
What is 6 months?
The fear of the dark.
What is Nyctophobia?
The specifier for PTSD in which the individual expresses either depersonalization or derealization.
What is "with dissociative features"?
Symptoms must last at least this long in children and adolescents to be diagnosed with separation anxiety disorder. For adults its 6 months.
what is four weeks?
A dissociative symptom where one feels as thought they are observing one's self from the outside.
What is depersonalization?
The amount of time that must have passed from traumatic event to be diagnosed with PTSD.
What is 30 days?
The fear of Public Speaking.
What is glossophobia?
The only specifier for social anxiety Disorder.
What is "performance only"? Or glossophobia?
In children, flashbacks may look like this.
What is "reenactments in play"?
This panic attack symptom means "Numbing or tingling sensations"
What is Paresthesia?
Name 3 or the 6 symptoms associated with generalized anxiety disorder (because an adult must have at least that many to be diagnosed...but children only need 1).
What are restlessness, fatigue, poor concentration, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance? (any 3 will do)
the fear of needles.
What is trypanophobia?
This specifier was dropped from "separation anxiety disorder" in the DSM V.
What is "with early onset"?
For specific phobias in children, the anxiety may take the form of these behaviors (you must list two of four).
What is crying, clinging, freezing, or tantrums?
This cognitive/mood symptom of PTSD we've seen before in MDD. It means "an inability to have positive feelings".
What is "anhedonia"?