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Eating Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Somatic disorder
Erikson's vs. Freud
100
A teenager attending regular Middle School, continues to eat glue, crayons and other school material, of nonnutritive value for several months.
What is Pica?
100
6yo child gets distressed when dropped off at Kindergarten, crying for long period of time, worried about parents not returning to pick them up.
What is Separation Anxiety?
100

A 40-year-old patient has been unable to speak at all after having a screaming argument with the spouse. The patient writes, "I have been trying to speak, but cannot make a single sound."

What is Conversion Disorder?
100

A child's energy is channeled into developing new skills and acquiring new knowledge, and play becomes largely confined to other children of the same gender.

What is Latency Phase?
200
15yo female engaged in 2-4 hours of exercise per day, has intense fear of gaining weight and not qualifying for the soccer team for feeling fat, developed a restrictive behavior for last 3 months.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
200
A nurse student started clinical rotations and gets distressed when entering patients rooms and examining patients with fear of getting germs/infection, developing excessive hand washing.
What is Specific Phobia?
200

Motivation to be identified as ill is the key factor distinguishing this disorder from malingering

What is Factitious Disorder?
200

Once children reach the preschool stage (ages 3–6 years), they are capable of initiating activities and asserting control over their world through social interactions and play

What is Initiative vs. Guilt?
300
35yo female concerned about body image and weight, recurrent using laxatives and sometimes vomiting after eating large meals in short period of time.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
300
A patient has experienced several panic attacks over last month and will meet criteria for panic Disorder if within the next month develop this
What is "persistent concern about additional panic attacks" and/or "avoidance behavior"?
300

Patients presenting with conscious awareness of symptom production for obtaining personal gain, most likely have this contidition

What is Malingering?
300

Successful completion of this stage can result in happy relationships and a sense of commitment, safety, and care within a relationship. Avoiding intimacy, fearing commitment and relationships can lead to isolation, loneliness, and sometimes depression. Success in this stage will lead to the virtue of love.

What is Intimacy vs. Isolation?
400
30 yo female of normal weight engages in eating large amount of food in short times 3-4 times a week, feeling guilt afterwards and disgusted of herself.
What is Binge-Eating Disorder?
400
After having a panic attack while at the waiting line at HEB - Plus, a patient develop extreme anxiety of returning there with fear of being unable to get out of that large building, preferring to do her groceries at  a smaller store.
What is Agoraphobia?
400

The parent of a 43yo patient died 5 years ago from pancreatic cancer. Patient occasionally feels uncomfortably full after eating large, fatty meals, and fears that this was an early sign of pancreatic cancer. The patient had previously scheduled annual physicals, but now avoids seeing the doctor due to the fear of being diagnosed with cancer.

What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
400

As we grow older, we tend to slow down our productivity and explore life as a retired person. If we see our lives as unproductive, feel guilt about our past, or feel that we did not accomplish our life goals, we become dissatisfied with life and develop despair, often leading to depression and hopelessness.

What is Ego Integrity vs. Despair?

500

After period of starvation, patient starts eating and presents with peripheral edema, hypophosphatemia, hypomagnesemia, h ypokalemia.

What is Refeeding Syndrome?
500
Higher doses of antidepressants are used to treat this anxiety disorder?
What is OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)?
500

A patient has been periodically experiencing severe pelvic pain for the past 2 years. Six months ago she underwent laparoscopy, was diagnosed with endometriosis, and started oral contraceptives and analgesics with some relief, although she continues to experience symptoms. The patient reports being worried that her pain will become so severe that she will have to quit her job.

What is Somatic Symptom disorder?
500

We give back to society through raising our children, being productive at work, and becoming involved in community activities and organizations. By failing to achieve these objectives, we become stagnant and feel unproductive

What is Generativity vs. Stagnation?