Mood Disorders
The criteria must be met for two years for a PDD (dysthymia) diagnosis.
What is low self-esteem?
The result of helping people with anxiety and trauma-related disorders to avoid things they fear.
What is increased distress?
The disorder represented by three key features- delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech.
What is psychosis?
In the psychodynamic triangle of conflict, which is rooted in repressed "true" feelings, defenses are in reaction to this.
What is Anxiety?
An antidepressant that does not alter sexual function.
What is a NDRI?
The minimum amount of time criteria must occur for a major depressive disorder diagnosis.
What is two weeks?
What is less anxiety?
The number of personality disorders represented in DSM-V.
What is 6?
This attachment style constantly worries about being abandoned.
What is an anxious attachment style?
Anticonvulsants are used for this in addition to being used to prevent seizures.
What is a Mood Stabilizer?
Major difference between major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.
What are manic episodes?
The disorder involving an identifiable stressor and a response that is out of proportion to the stressor.
What is an adjustment disorder?
The number of personality clusters represented in DSM-V.
What is 3?
People with this attachment style have difficulty getting close to others and feel most comfortable when they can rely on themselves.
What is avoidant attachment style?
What are antidepressants that work on SSRIs?
The developmental period during which it is most common to develop major depressive disorder.
What is late adolescence/early adulthood?
A disorder that includes flashbacks, nightmares, mood disorders, sleep disturbances, avoidance, suicidal ideation and hyper arousal when exposed to trauma-related stimuli.
What is PTSD?
A personality disorder characterized by viewing things in extreme, such as all good or all bad. Can include quickly changing opinions of others, an individual who is seen as a friend one day may be considered an enemy the next. These shifting feelings can lead to intense and unstable relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
The ability to understand the mental state, of oneself or others, that underlies overt behavior.
What is mentalization?
In An Unquiet Mind, Kay Jamison stopped using this drug frequently, which had disastrous consequences.
What is Lithium?
The minimum amount of time a person must have symptoms to be diagnosed with Persistent Depressive Disorder.
What is two years?
The amount of people who experience a traumatic event that will develop PTSD.
What is less than one quarter?
Disorder characterized by a disregard for others feelings, and a lack of remorse for negative behavior.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Mentalization based treatments are most useful for this personality disorder.
What is borderline personality disorder?
In Darkness Visible, Syron was suffering from this psychiatric disorder.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?