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Personality Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Statistics
Treatments
100
What is it called when a person begins to act suspicious and are continuslly on the lookout for trickery and abuse?
Paranoia
100
What is being accesively worried and experiencing physical symptoms such as, nausea, fatigue, and headaches?
Generalized Anxiety
100
What is a mental health disorder that is characterized by feelings of worry or fear that are strong enough to interfere with ones daily life?
Anxiety
100
How many people with mental illness seek assistance per year?
What is 4.5 million people
100
What treatment involves the use of drugs such as antipsychotic, anti-anxiety, and anti-depression?
Somatic Treatments
200
Who is a person who breaks rules and laws and takes advantage of other people for their own gain?
Sociopath
200
What is an irrational fear of one thing?
Phobia
200
What is the flight of ideas, being very impulsive, and spending excessive money?
Manic Depression
200
How many children are diagnosed with a mental illness?
20% of youth aged children
200
What is the use of talking through ones issues and past problems?
Psychoanalysis
300
What is being grandiose, craving admiration from others, and feeling like you are privileged results in this diagnosis?
Narcissistic
300
What is a psychatric disorder in which anxiety and fear arise frequently and without reasonable cause?
Panic
300
What is a disorder associated with episodes of mood swings?
Bipolar
300
How many people in the U.S are suffering for mental illness?
6 million
300
What is a non directive therapy method when the patient is made to develop a strong and healtheir sense of self?
Humanistic
400
What is being unable to have a stable relationship, being unpredictably agressive, and easily angered?
Borderline
400
What is emotional distress due to a life threatning experience?
PTSD
400
What is a mood disorder causing persistent feeling of sadness?
Depression
400
What is about 2.7 million
How many army veterans suffer from PTSD?
400
What is a form of psychotherapy in which a group of patients meet to discuss their problems together under the supervision of a therapist?
Group Therapy
500
What is having a difficulity forming close relationships and having peculiar beliefs and behaviors?
Schizotypal
500
What is pathological shyness caused by the feeling of being judged by others?
Social
500
What is current episodes of depression usually in late fall and the winter alternating with periods of normal or high mood the rest of the year?
Seasonal Affective
500
What percentage of popluation suffers from ADHD?
3-5%
500
What is a treatment that involves electroconvulsive therapy?
Shock Therapy