Eating and Mood disorders
A disorder in which a person experiences 2 or more weeks with either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure
What is major depressive disorder?
A continuous state of tension, fearfulness, and autonomic nervous system arousal
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
Disturbance in people’s thoughts, emotions or behaviors that causes distress or suffering
What is a psychological disorder?
Disorder characterized by delusions and hallucinations
What is schizophrenia?
What is persistent depressive disorder?
A persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation
What is specific phobias?
The everyday term for compulsive substance use or dysfunctional behavior patterns despite harmful consequences
Addiction
Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity are major symptoms
What is ADHD?
Alternating between states of depression and mania
What is bipolar disorder?
Repetitive, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts and repetitive behaviors that the individual feels driven to perform
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
A likely diagnosis for child who has impaired theory of mind
What is autism?
Personality disorder characterized by a lack of a conscience
What is antisocial personality disorder?
Fear of gaining weight, restrictive eating, excessive exercise
What is anorexia nervosa?
Recurring vivid, distressing memories of a traumatic event, social withdrawal, nightmares, jumpy anxiety, and trouble sleeping
What is PTSD?
Type of disorder characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
What are personality disorders?
A person claims that multiple “people” live inside her body. Each persona has a different voice, age, and set of interests
What is dissociative identity disorder?
Food binges that alternate with vomiting
What is bulimia nervosa?
Difference between obsessions and compulsions?
True or false: Vaccines cause autism.
FALSE!!! Autism is at least partially genetic and has several biological causes; it has no relationship to vaccines.
Personality disorder characterized by disturbances in identity, in affect, and in impulse control; usually caused by interpersonal trauma during childhood
What is borderline personality disorder?