Name That Disorder!
This individual interprets any normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease. They are sometimes known as Hypochondriacs.
What is an Illness Anxiety Disorder?
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
This individual is known to skip meals and barely eat during the day. At night they ingest excessive amounts of high caloric foods. This is followed by multiple trips to the restroom where they forcefully vomit what they have recently intake.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
Marc cannot go to sleep until he has checked that his front door is locked 10 times and made sure the stove is turned off. This is an example of...
What is OCD?
After serving overseas for years, Daniel cannot hear fireworks without having traumatic flashbacks. This is an example of...
What is PTSD?
Usually first appears in adolescence and is marked by limitations in communication and social interaction. They are also commonly known to have fixated interests and repetitive behaviors.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Being on the Spectrum?
An individual that experiences haunting memories or becomes avoidant of trauma related stimuli that lingers for at least 4 weeks after a traumatic experience.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This individual tends to extensively worry about small details. They find ways to accompany the stress by repeating behaviors to make the matter seem more in control. For example, worrying about your computers battery life so you frequently check the settings app.
What is Obsession Compulsion Disorder (OCD)?
This disorder accounts for persistent delusions someone can experience. As people age, psychotic disorders last longer and recovery periods shorten.
What is Chronic Schizophrenia or Process Schizophrenia?
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
The individual experiences extreme inattention and/or hyperactivity or impulsivity on a certain topic.
What is Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
This disorder is a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence test score of 70 or below and difficulty adapting to the demands of life.
What is an intellectual disability?
These are a group of disorders marked by irrational ideas, distorted perceptions, and a loss of contact with reality.
What are psychotic disorders?
This is an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person may experience terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.
What is panic disorder?
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
This is a disorder in which a person experiences 2 or more weeks with 5 or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.
What is major depressive disorder?
This is a group of disorders in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
What is bipolar disorder?