Anxiety and OCD
People with this disorder experience long-lasting anxiety that is not focused on any particular object or situation.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
What is bipolar disorder?
The alternating appearance of two emotional extremes, or poles, characterizes
All individuals diagnosed with personality disorders display this problem.
Empathy or intimacy within relationships
True or false: A person with DID (dissociative identity disorder) appears to have more than one identity, each of which speaks and acts in a different way.
True
True or False: There is no schizophrenia spectrum, just one form.
False
José is experiencing a series of sudden, uncontrollable anxiety attacks in which dizziness, a racing heart, sweating, and other terrifying symptoms make him fear that he is about to die. What disorder is José experiencing?
Panic disorder
True or False: The vulnerability to depression or bipolar is only based off environment.
False
People with _______________________ come across as arrogant and as having an inflated view of their self importance.
Narcissistic
Panic disorder is sometimes associated with another anxiety disorder called _____.
Agoraphobia
True or False: People with schizophrenia may create neologisms, or new words, that are usually nonsensical and have meaning only to the person speaking them.
True
What disorder is characterized by having persistent unwanted thoughts that lead to compulsive behaviors?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
What are some of the symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder?
Feels sad and overwhelmed, typically losing interest in activities and relationships and taking pleasure in nothing. Conversation to bathing can become exhausting. Changes in eating habits resulting in weight loss or weight gain. Disturbed sleeping or excessive sleeping. Problems in working, concentrating, making decisions.
What disorder displays shallow, attention getting emotions and goes to great lengths to gain others praise and reassurance?
histrionic
What is the dissociative disorder that is marked by a sudden loss of memory (or confusion about) personal identity?
Dissociative amnesia
What is the flat effect?
When emotional expression is muted in a person with schizophrenia.
What disorder is characterized by strong irrational fears related to social situations?
Social anxiety disorder
Fill in the blank: ________________Depressive Disorder are people who show the sad mood, lack of interest, and loss of pleasure associated with major depressive disorder but less intensely and for a longer period.
Persistent
This personality disorder is characterized by these features:
Proneness to shame and hypersensitive to criticism.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
What is a somatic symptom disorder?
Psychological problems in which a person shows the symptoms of a physical disorder for which there is no physical cause.
Hallucinations are _____ symptoms of schizophrenia; lack of emotion is a _____ symptom.
positive, negative
Someone who experiences intense distress over imagined abnormalities of the skin, hair, face, or other areas of the body have what disorder?
body dysmorphic disorder
What is mania?
A point of extremely agitated and usually elated emotional state. During periods of mania, people tend to be overly optimistic, boundlessly energetic, certain of having extraordinary powers and abilities, and bursting with all sorts of ideas. They are irritated by anyone who tries to reason with them or “slow them down,” and they may make impulsive and unwise decisions, including spending their life savings on foolish schemes; they can even become a danger to themselves or to others.
What are 3 symptoms associated with acute stress disorder?
intrusive thoughts, negative mood or feelings, Dissociative symptoms, Avoidance Arousal symptoms such as poor concentration; feeling tense, angry outbursts
What somatic disorder was once known as hypochondriasis?
illness anxiety disorder
The _________ approach forms the basis of the vulnerability theory of schizophrenia.
diathesis-stress