Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety when separating from home to emotionally-attached individuals
Separation Anxiety
Flashbacks to traumatic events earlier in life cause significant stress on mental health
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
Extended depression with no root causal factor
Major Depressive Disorder
Repeated mental thoughts and behaviors, often with a “magic number”
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Excessive need for admiration
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Irrational fear of object/person/etc.
Specific Phobia
Delusions and hallucinations, may be accompanied by flat affect, catatonia, or word salad
Schizophrenia
Alternates between mania and depression
Bipolar Disorder
Excessive acquisition of objects with inability/unwillingness to discard
Hoarding Disorder
Lack of emotional regard for others, disregard for the legality/rights of others
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Intense fear in one or more social situations
Social Anxiety Disorder
This applies to kids, disturbed and inappropriate ways of social interaction with others
Reactive Attachment Disorder
Also known as multiple personality disorder
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Belief one’s body is defected in some way, often imperceptible to others
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Instability of emotion, relationships, and self-image
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Childs inability to speak or communicate in social settings
Selective Mutism
Formerly hypochondriasis, excessive belief that one is ill or sick constantly
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Loss of memory due to dissociation
Dissociative Amnesia
Compulsive urge to pull out one’s hair
Trichotillomania
Excessive need for attention
Histrionic Personality Disorder
“Fear of the marketplace”/wide open spaces, fear of situations in which escape might be difficult
Agoraphobia
Inability to cope with a major stressor/life event
Adjustment Disorder
Detached from environment, “outside their body”
Depersonalization or Derealization
Compulsive urge to pick at skin that causes scabs, bleeding, and sores
Excoriation
Excessive reliance on the opinions of others to make decisions for you
Dependent Personality Disorder