Anxiety
Excessive anxiety and worry (apprehensive expectation), occurring more days than not for at least 6 months, about a number of events or activities (such as work or school performance).
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
Feeling empty, sad or lonely with diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day.
What is Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)?
Sad mood or loss of interest or pleasure that has been present in a 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning.
What is a Depressive Episode? (will take depression, major depressive episode, depressed episode)
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. They may occur in any sensory modality, but auditory are most common.
What are Hallucinations?
Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress. Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the individual feels driven to perform.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Marked fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation (e.g., flying, heights, animals, receiving an injection, seeing blood).
What is a Phobia?
Mood disorder that can affect people after giving birth. It can cause intense feelings of sadness, anxiety, and fatigue that can make it difficult to care for yourself and your baby.
What is Postpartum Depression (PPD)?
Distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and abnormally and persistently increased goal-directed activity or energy, lasting at least 1 week and present most of the day, nearly every day.
What is a Manic Episode or Mania?
Fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. Their content may include a variety of themes (e.g., persecutory, referential, somatic, religious, grandiose).
What are Delusions?
Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Abrupt surge of intense fear or intense discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes, and during which time, symptoms like sweating, palpitations, trembling, chest pain, fear of losing control, or fear of dying.
What is Panic Disorder or Panic Attack?
Depressed mood for most of the day, for more days than not, as indicated by either subjective account or observation by others, for at least 2 years.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD or Dysthymia)?
A manic episode may have been preceded by and may be followed by hypomanic or major depressive episodes.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
The presence of one (or more) delusions with a duration of 1 month or longer. Hallucinations, if present, are not prominent and are related to the delusional theme (e.g., the sensation of being infested with insects associated with delusions of infestation).
What is Delusional Disorder?
A persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development.
What is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
Marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny by others. Examples include social interactions (e.g., having a conversation, meeting unfamiliar people), being observed (e.g., eating or drinking), and performing in front of others (e.g., giving a speech).
What is Social Anxiety Disorder or Social Phobia?
Depression that comes and goes with the seasons, with symptoms typically starting in the late fall or early winter and going away during the spring and summer.
Characterized by a clinical course of recurring mood episodes consisting of one or more major depressive episodes and at least one hypomanic episode.
What is Bipolar II Disorder?
An uninterrupted period of illness during which there is a major mood episode (major depressive or manic) concurrent with schizophrenia.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states, which may be described in some cultures as an experience of possession. The disruption in identity involves marked discontinuity in sense of self and sense of agency, accompanied by related alterations in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning.
What is Dissociative Identify Disorder (DID)?
Will also take Multiple Personality Disorder, but that is an outdated term for this disorder.
Developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety concerning removal from those to whom the individual is attached.
What is Separation Anxiety Disorder?
Severe form of depression in which a person experiences symptoms, such as delusions (disturbing, false fixed beliefs) or hallucinations (hearing or seeing things others do not hear or see).
What is Depression with Psychosis?
Chronic and fluctuating mood disturbance involving numerous periods of hypomanic symptoms rather than a hypomanic episode and periods of depressive symptoms rather than a depressive episode, that are distinct from each other.
What is Cyclothymic Disorder?
Will take Bipolar III.
Decrease in reactivity to the environment. This ranges from resistance to instructions; to maintaining a rigid, inappropriate or bizarre posture; to a complete lack of verbal and motor responses. Other features are repeated stereotyped movements, staring, grimacing, mutism, and the echoing of speech.
What is Catatonic behavior?
Recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal items even though the items are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value. The individual experiences a rising subjective sense of tension before the theft and feels pleasure, gratification, or relief when committing the theft.
What is Kleptomania?