This mood disorder is characterized by long-lasting sadness and a loss of interest in activities.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Excessive worry about many things, often without a clear cause.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
What are the 3 D’s used to identify psychological disorders?
Deviant, Dysfunctional, Distressing.
This chemical in the brain, along with dopamine and norepinephrine, is often linked to depression when levels are low.
What is serotonin?
On The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper is a brilliant physicist with difficulty understanding social cues, interpreting sarcasm, or making eye contact. He prefers rigid routines and fixates on specific interests like trains and comic books.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Jamie feels amazing and energized for days, barely sleeps, and then crashes into deep depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Recurrent eating followed by purging behavior.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
What is the main purpose of the DSM-5?
To classify and diagnose mental disorders with standardized criteria.
This type of anxiety is marked by intense fear and avoidance of specific situations, like public speaking or flying.
What is a phobia?
In Black Swan, Nina is a ballet dancer obsessed with perfection. She severely restricts her food intake, is extremely underweight, and becomes increasingly anxious about maintaining control over her body and performance.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
A person with this disorder experiences intense fear in social situations.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
Hyperactivity, impulsivity, and trouble sustaining attention.
What are symptoms of AD/HD?
Who can legally diagnose and prescribe medication for mental disorders?
Psychiatrists (medical doctors).
Give one example of a social factor that could influence depression.
Lack of supportive relationships or pressure on social media.
In the movie Split, the character Kevin has multiple distinct identities that take turns controlling his body. Each identity has its own name, voice, posture, and personality. The film links these identities to past trauma.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Sara can't stop washing her hands. She knows it’s irrational but feels compelled to repeat it 20 times.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech.
What are symptoms of Schizophrenia?
What is the goal of psychoanalysis?
To uncover unconscious thoughts and feelings from childhood experiences.
Give one example of a biological factor that could influence depression.
Low serotonin levels or family history.
Lena saves old newspapers, broken electronics, and garbage, and refuses to throw anything away.
What is Hoarding Disorder?
Jordan constantly brags about his achievements and expects everyone in class to admire him. When a teacher praises someone else, Jordan rolls his eyes and mutters, “They’re not even that good.”
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).
The prefrontal cortex, which helps with focus and impulse control, is underactive in this disorder.
What is AD/HD?
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) designed to do?
Change negative thought patterns and self-defeating behaviors.
Which perspective would say depression comes from “negative thought patterns”?
The Cognitive perspective.
In the series This Is Us, the character Jack Pearson’s son Kevin develops a prescription drug addiction after a knee injury. Later, he reveals flashbacks of intrusive memories, nightmares, and emotional numbing related to his father's death and childhood trauma.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?