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Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders
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Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations.
What is social anxiety disorder/social phobia?
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Mood disorder involving persistently depressed mood, with low self-esteem, withdrawal, pessimism, or despair, present for at least 2 years, with no absence of symptoms for more than 2 months.
What is dysthymic disorder?
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The strong tendency to mistrust the motives of others, leading to a high degree of suspiciousness.
What is paranoid personality disorder?
100
Fear of heights.
What is acrophobia?
100
The only state in the US that is one syllable.
What is Maine?
200
Anxiety disorder characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused, chronic, and continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive, accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness, irritability, and restlessness.
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
200
Mood disorder involving a cycling of episodes corresponding to the seasons of the year, typically with depression occurring during the winter.
What is seasonal affective disorder (SAD)?
200
Characterized by behavior that shows limited regard for other people.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
200
Fear of open spaces.
What is agoraphobia?
200
A bug that can live several weeks with its head cut off.
What is a cockroach?
300
Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult.
What is agoraphobia?
300
Severe mood disorder typified by major depressive episodes superimposed over a background of dysthymic disorder.
What is double depression?
300
Characterized by strong feelings of being inadequate, which can result in inhibition in social situations and sensitivity to any negative feedback.
What is avoidant personality disorder?
300
Fear of bees or bee stings.
What is apiphobia?
300
The first US president to be born in a hospital.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
400
Enduring, distressing emotional disorder that follows exposure to a severe helplessness- or fear-inducing threat. The victim reexperiences the trauma, avoids stimuli associated with it, and develops a numbing of responsiveness and an increased vigilance and arousal.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
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Alternation of major depressive episodes with full manic episodes.
What is bipolar I disorder?
400
Characterized by social detachment and a lack of emotional expression not due to social anxiety.
What is schizoid personality disorder?
400
Fear of being alone, solitude, oneself, being egotistical.
What is autophobia?
400
The only insect that can turn its head.
What is a praying mantis?
500
Severe reaction immediately following a terrifying event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and derealization. Many victims later develop PTSD.
What is acute stress disorder?
500
Chronic (at least 2 years) mood disorder characterized by alternating mood elevation and depression levels that are not as severe as manic or major depressive episodes.
What is cyclothymic disorder?
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The tendency to display flamboyant emotions with the goal of seeking attention.
What is histrionic personality disorder?
500
Fear of thunderstorms or lightening.
What is astraphobia?
500
This animal can go longer without water than a camel.
What is a giraffe?