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Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Stress Disorders and Eating Disorders
Dissociative Disorders
Schizophrenia
100
A disorder that causes someone to have unexplained and continual tension and uneasiness.
What is general anxiety?
100
Diminished interest and pleasure

Thoughts of Death or Suicide

Significant weight loss or gain

Insomnia, fatigue, lethargy 

What are the symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder? 
100
This disorder is treated by free association, projection, talk therapy, cognitive therapy, eye movement desensitization and medication. 
What is PTSD? 
100
A dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits 2 or more distinct personalities. The original identity denies the awareness of the other. 
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)? 
100
A disorder characterized by delusions of persecution, hallucination, disorganized speech, inappropriate laughter, tears or rage. 
What is Paranoid? 
200
A disorder that causes sudden episodes of intense dread.
What is Panic Disorder?
200
This is caused by swings betweeen an oversupply and undersupply of norepinephrine.
What is bipolar disorder? 
200
A disorder in which a person persistently thinks they have an illness; can cause physical symptoms and is caused by stress or a traumatic event. 
What is Hypochondriasis? 
200
List at least 3 treatments of dissociative disorders. 
-Free Association

-Projection

-Talk therapy

-Cognitive behavioral therapy

-Family therapy

-Psychotherapies

200
What are treatments for Schizophrenic Disorders? 
Antipsychotic drugs and group therapy. 
300
Symptoms of this disorder include dizziness, sweaty palms, heart palpitations, agitation, trembling,
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
300
Mood disorder in which a depression starts at the same time every year. 
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)? 
300
A disorder characterized by weakness or paralysis, abnormal movements such as tremors, blindness or loss of sensation/ numbness and is caused by extreme stress. 
What is conversion disorder? 
300
A disorder characterized by memory loss and a sense of things and people as distorted and unreal. 
What is dissociative amnesia? 
300
A type of schizophrenia characterized by toneless voice, expressionless face, and a mute/rigid body.
What is Catatonic Schizophrenia?
400
An example of someone with this disorder is a person who checks a door ten times to see if it is locked.
What is OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)?
400
A milder form of depression which occurs for a longer duration but has less intensive symptoms. 
What is Dysthymic Disorder? 
400

An eating disorder in which a person alternates binge-eating with purging in form of excessive exercise or eating. 

 What is Bulimia Nervosa? 
400
A disorder in which a person may forget their identity and travel to a new place and start a new life. 
What is dissociative fugue? 
400
A type of schizophrenia in which a person experiences delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and thoughts and childlike behavior such as: unprovoked agitation or sexual behavior in public
What is disorganized schizophrenia?
500
Intense fear of social situations leading to the avoidance of such situations defines this disorder.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
500

These disorders (One being a milder form of the other) are treated by group therapies, Medications such as Lithium, cognitive/behavioral therapy and family therapy. 

What is Bipolar Disorder and Cyclothymic Disorder? 
500
This category of disorders is treated with free association, projection, talk therapy, group and family therapies and cognitive behavior therapy. 
What is an eating disorder?
500
This psychological perspective theorizes that dissociative disorders are caused by the defense against anxiety that is caused by unacceptable impulses. 
What is the psychodynamic perspective? 
500
List 3 potential causes of Schizophrenia. 
Low birth weight

Maternal diabetes

Older prenatal age

oxygen deprivation in deliver

genetics

virus during pregnancy

separation from parents