Mood Disorders
This mood disorder is characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and a loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of distrust and suspicion of others, believing that others' motives are malevolent.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
A type of schizophrenia symptom that involves hearing voices or seeing things that aren’t actually present, which can cause significant distress.
What are hallucinations?
This eating disorder is characterized by extreme restriction of food intake, an intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted body image, leading to severe weight loss.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
This disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states, each with its own patterns of behavior, memory, and perception of reality.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
People with this disorder experience extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and deep lows (depression)
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This personality disorder is marked by a pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others, often engaging in deceitful or manipulative behaviors.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This schizophrenia related condition involves a marked reduction in reactivity to the environment, which may include symptoms such as immobility, mutism.
What is catatonia?
This disorder involves repeated episodes of consuming large quantities of food in a short period of time, accompanied by a lack of control, but without compensatory behaviors like purging.
What is Binge-Eating Disorder?
This dissociative state involves a sudden, unexpected travel away from home or work, coupled with an inability to recall one's past, and sometimes the assumption of a new identity.
What is fugue?
This is a state of abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, often accompanied by other symptoms such as increased energy, impulsivity, racing thoughts, decreased need for sleep, and sometimes grandiosity.
What is mania?
People with this disorder may experience intense emotional instability, fear of abandonment, and engage in impulsive behaviors, including self-harm.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This neurotransmitter is often in overabundance is schizophrenic patients.
What is dopamine?
In this eating disorder, individuals engage in episodes of binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors such as vomiting, excessive exercise, or laxative use to prevent weight gain.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
Dissociative disorders are often believed to be the result of having experienced this.
What is trauma?
Extreme changes in weight are symptoms of this disorder
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of seeking attention, being excessively emotional, and often engaging in dramatic or theatrical behavior to gain approval from others.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
This type of schizophrenia is marked by the absence of normal functioning, such as a lack of emotional expression, reduced motivation, or social withdrawal.
What is the negative schizophrenia?
This type of eating disorder is marked by a psychological compulsion to eat non-food substances, like dirt, hair, or chalk, and can lead to nutritional deficiencies and health complications.
What is Pica?
This disorder is characterized by excessive worry and anxiety about a variety of events or activities, often accompanied by physical symptoms such as restlessness or fatigue.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
Cluttered thinking, disorganized speech, hyper- productivity, and setting unrealistic goals are all examples of this aspect of bipolar disorder.
This disorder involves the presence of physical symptoms that are distressing or disruptive, and the individual excessively worries about these symptoms.
What is somatic symptom disorder?
This type of symptom of schizophrenia involves false beliefs that are strongly held despite evidence to the contrary, such as believing one has special powers or is being persecuted.
What are delusions?
This term refers to the practice of eliminating food from the body through behaviors such as vomiting, excessive exercise, or misuse of laxatives, often used to prevent weight gain after binge eating.
What is purging?
Individuals with this disorder experience persistent patterns of thoughts and behaviors that are intrusive, unwanted, and cause significant distress, often leading to compulsive rituals meant to relieve anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?