Anxiety disorders
Mood disorders
Eating disorders
Personality disorders
Psychotic Disorders
100

What causes panic attacks, which are sudden feelings of terror when there is no real danger. You may feel as if you are losing control. You may also have physical symptoms, such as

  • Fast heartbeat
  • Chest or stomach pain
  • Breathing difficulty
  • Weakness or dizziness
  • Sweating
  • Feeling hot or a cold chill
  • Tingly or numb hands

What is Panic Disorder

100

Most People who suffer from mood disorders use this as an escape.

What is substance abuse

100

People with this disorder keep eating even after they are full. They often eat until they feel very uncomfortable. Afterward, they usually have feelings of guilt, shame, and distress.

What is Binge-eating

100

This disorder is an illness marked by an ongoing pattern of varying moods, self-image, and behavior. These symptoms often result in impulsive actions and problems in relationships. People with this disorder may experience intense episodes of anger, depression, and anxiety that can last from a few hours to days.

What is Borderline Personality disorder

100

 People who have it may hear voices that aren't there. They may think other people are trying to hurt them. Sometimes they don't make sense when they talk. The disorder makes it hard for them to keep a job or take care of themselves.

What is Schizophrenia

200

If you have this, you have frequent, upsetting thoughts called obsessions. To try to control the thoughts, you feel an overwhelming urge to repeat certain rituals or behaviors. These are called compulsions.

What is Obsessive-Compulsive disorder (OCD)

200

 People who have it go through unusual mood changes. They go from very happy, "up," and active to very sad and hopeless, "down," and inactive, and then back again. They often have normal moods in between.

What is Bipolar disorder

200

People with this  have periods of binge-eating. But afterwards, they purge, by making themselves throw up or using laxatives. They may also over-exercise or fast. People with this disorder may be slightly underweight, normal weight, or overweight.

What is Bulimia nervosa 

200

This disorder causes problems in many areas of life, such as relationships, work, school or financial affairs. People with this disorder may be generally unhappy and disappointed when they're not given the special favors or admiration they believe they deserve. They may find their relationships unfulfilling, and others may not enjoy being around them.

What is Narcissistic personality disorder

200

This is a rare illness, compared to the rates of postpartum depression or anxiety. It occurs in approximately 1 to 2 out of every 1,000 deliveries, or approximately .1 -.2% of births. The onset is usually sudden, most often within the first 2 weeks postpartum.

Symptoms

Symptoms of postpartum psychosis can include:

  • Delusions or strange beliefs
  • Hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren’t there)
  • Feeling very irritated
  • Hyperactivity
  • Decreased need for or inability to sleep
  • Paranoia and suspiciousness
  • Rapid mood swings
  • Difficulty communicating at times

What is Postpartum Psychosis

300

You can get this after living through or seeing a traumatic event, such as war, a hurricane, sexual assault, physical abuse, or a bad accident. It makes you feel stressed and afraid after the danger is over.

What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

300

It's more than just a feeling of being sad or "blue" for a few days. If you are one of the more than 19 million teens and adults in the United States who have depression, the feelings do not go away. They persist and interfere with your everyday life. Symptoms can include

  • Feeling sad or "empty"
  • Loss of interest in favorite activities
  • Overeating, or not wanting to eat at all
  • Not being able to sleep, or sleeping too much
  • Feeling very tired
  • Feeling hopeless, irritable, anxious, or guilty
  • Aches or pains, headaches, cramps, or digestive problems
  • Thoughts of death or suicide

What is depression

300

People with this disorder avoid food, severely restrict food, or eat very small quantities of only certain foods. They may see themselves as overweight, even when they are dangerously underweight. This is the least common of the three eating disorders, but it is often the most serious.

What is Anorexia nervosa

300

This disorder involves intense anxious or fearful feelings and thoughts often related to persecution, threat, or conspiracy. It occurs in many mental disorders but is most often present in psychotic disorders. It can become delusions when irrational thoughts and beliefs become so fixed that nothing (including evidence) can convince a person that what they think or feel is not true.

What is Paranoia 

300

7This psychotic disorder is a mental health disorder that is ic marked by a combination of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations or delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression or mania.

The two types of this dissorder — both of which include some symptoms of schizophrenia — are:


  • Bipolar type, which includes episodes of mania and sometimes major depression
  • Depressive type, which includes only major depressive episodes

What is Schizoaffective Disorder 

400

It is a strong, irrational fear of something that poses little or no real danger.

What is a Phobia

400

This is the tenth most common cause of death in the United States. People may consider this when they are hopeless and can't see any other solution to their problems. Often it's related to serious depression, alcohol or substance abuse, or a major stressful event.

What is suicide

400

True or false, Anyone can develop an eating disorder.

True

400

This disorder is characterized by irrational or intense belief(s) or suspicion(s) which a person believes to be true. These beliefs may seem outlandish and impossible (bizarre) or fit within the realm of what is possible (non-bizarre).

What is Delusional disorder 

400

This is a life-threatening idiosyncratic reaction to antipsychotic drugs characterized by fever, altered mental status, muscle rigidity, and autonomic dysfunction.

What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

500

The general feeling of being anxious.

What is Generalized anxiety disorder

500

This causes emotional ups and downs, but they are not as extreme as in bipolar disorder I or II.

With tjhis, you have periods in which the mood has noticeable ups and downs from your benchmark. You can feel on top of the world for a while, and then have a period when you feel somewhat depressed. Among these ups and downs, you can feel good and stable.

What is Cyclothymia

500

Eating unusually large amounts of food in a specific amount of time, such as a 2-hour period

Eating even when you're full or not hungry

Eating fast during binge episodes

Eating until you're uncomfortably full

Eating alone or in secret to avoid embarrassment

Feeling distressed, ashamed, or guilty about your eating

Frequently dieting, possibly without weight loss

Are symptoms of what?

Binge eating

500

If you have this disorder, you may be seen as a loner or dismissive of others, and you may lack the desire or skill to form close personal relationships. Because you don't tend to show emotion, you may appear as though you don't care about others or what's going on around you.

What is Schizoid personality disorder

500

 True or False, people with Schizoaffective disorder suffer from hallucinations that they believe to be true  

True