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Anxiety Disorders
Somatoform & Dissociative Disorders
Schizophrenia & Mood Disorders
Personality Disorder
Potpourri
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Sudden unexplainable attack of intense anxiety - feel intense doom
What is panic disorder
100
A person who is in good health becomes preoccupied with imaginary ailments
What is hypochondriasis
100
A false belief that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence
What is a delusion
100
A personality disorder characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions, and lack of conscience
What is anit-social personality
100

The manual used by psychologists to help them classify psychological disorders?

What is the DSM-V?

200
Disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
200
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function
What is Conversion disorder
200
Severe form of depression that interferes with functioning, concentration, and mental and physical well-being
What is Major Depressive Disorder
200

The personality disorder in which patient has grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy

What is Narcissism?

200

What are the 4 determiners of whether you have a psychological disorder or not?

4 Ds,

deviance, distress, disfunction, danger

300
Thinking the same thoughts over and over
What is an obsession
300
A dissosiative disorder in which a person suddenly and unexpectently travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past
What is dissociative fugue
300
perceptions that have no direct external cause
What is a hallucination
300

What type of personality disorder includes shallow or exaggerated emotions with attention seeking behavior even it is damaging?

What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?

300

A person avoids social interaction because they feel inadequate and fear criticism or rejection.

avoidant PD

400
Continually performing irrational actions
What is a Compulsion
400
Two or more distinct personalities each with their own patterns of thinking and behaving
What is dissociative identity disorder
400
Language sped up or disorganized
What is word salad
400

What type of personality disorders includes unstable relationships, self image, identity, and erractic behavior?

What is Borderline Personality disorder?

400

What is the leading cause for people with schizophrenia?

genetics

500
A vague generalized apprehension or feeling that one is in danger
What is anxiety
500
physical symptoms for which there are no apparent physical cause
What is a somataform disorder
500
Type of schizophrenia that causes limbs to remain motionless for long periods of time and in unusual positions "waxy flexibility"
What is catatonic schizophrenia
500

How many Clusters are personality disorders grouped into? How are they defined

What is ...3

cluster a: odd, eccentric one

cluster b: dramatic/ erractic one

cluster c: fearful, shy avoidant

500

What is a leading cause for D.I.D?

Severe childhood trauma: sexual abuse, neglect....