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Anxiety
Somatoform
Dissociative Disorder
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
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Elevated heart rate, trouble breathing, sweaty skin, and sense of impending doom....... Obsessive thoughts that create anxiety that is relieved by a compulsion...... Experienced the majority of the time for 6 months or longer, causing people to experience extreme stress as a result of worrying
What are the symptoms of anxiety disorders...... What is OCD..... Generalized Anxiety.....
100
A person is terrified of becoming ill, characterized by a preoccupation with bodily symptoms and frequent visits to doctors to find a diagnosis for the imagined illness
What is Hypochodriasis
100
Inability to remember personal information - name, memories, usually due to trauma experienced by the individual.
What is Dissociative Amnesia
100
Mild depression that persists for at least 2 years
What is Dysthymia
100
What are symptoms of Schizophrenia?
Delusions - False beliefs, Speech Disturbances, Hallucinations - false sensory perceptions, Flat affect - condition in which a person shows little or no emotion, Excessive or inappropriate emotion, Disturbed or bizarre behavior.
200
Anxiety that seems unrelated to any known, realistic factor
What is Free Floating anxiety
200
Person complains of one specific symptom in dramatic language using words such as "unbearable", becomes dependent on a healthcare professional, demand constant attention and has symptoms that change frequently
What is somatization disorder
200
Person suddenly travels away from home and afterward cannot remember the trip or one's own identity
What is Dissociative Fugue
200
Involves cycling from happy to sad to happy again, lasting for 2 or more years.
What is Cyclothymia
200
Categories of Schizophrenia
Disorganized, Catatonic, Paranoid, Positive symptoms, and Negative Symptoms
300
What are causes of anxiety disorders?
Signal of repressed conflict, Learned due to the attention an individual received that reinforced the fearful reaction, Result of irrational thought process, Chemical imbalance
300
Symptoms specific to the somatic nervous system, such as numbness, blindness, or paralysis that have no real physical cause, disappearing when the person is in an altered state of consciousness
What is Conversion Disorder
300
at least 2 personalities existing in 1 body (fugues, blackouts, and loss of memory and time)
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder
300
Depressed mood that lasts for most everyday for 2 or more weeks taking no pleasure in any experiences.
What is Major Depression
300
What are the causes of schizophrenia?
What is genetics, chemical influences, and brain defects.
400
Fear of objects or specific situations or events.... Fear of being in a situation from which escape would be difficult of impossible... Fear of interacting with others or being in a social situation in which negative evaluation may occur....
What is specific phobia, What is Agoraphobia, What is Social Phobia.
400
What causes somatoform disorders?
Turn repressed anxiety into physical symptoms, 2 kinds of reinforcement (positive reinforcement - from doctors and family......Negative reinforcement - from eliminating the stressful situation associated with the disorder), allow false beliefs about their health care to dominate their thinking.
400
What causes dissociative disorders?
Defense mechanism for a person to use to reduce repressed threatening thoughts or memories of a traumatic event, a person feels negative emotions when thinking about disturbing experiences, lower brain activity in the areas responsible for bodily awareness.
400
individual experiences severe mood swings ranging from one pole (severe depression) to another (manic episodes) at the other emotional spectrum
What is Bipolar Disorder
400
Composed of a persistent ridge and maladaptive pattern of behavior that makes it difficult for an individual to fit in with others and have normal relationships.
What is personality disorders.
500
Sudden onset of extreme panic in which symptoms of stress occur and the individual believes he or she is dying
What is Panic Attack
500
Person is literally "against society" in that he or she has no morals or conscious, is manipulative and act without regard for consequences - no feeling of remorse
What is Antisocial
500
Individuals state on the borderline of reality and a psychotic state, characterized by unstable or intense relationships, moodiness, and inappropriate and excessive emotions.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder
500
What are the causes of Mood Disorders?
Depression is anger aimed at authority figures the individual is afraid to confront, thereby repressing the anger and displacing it into self-hate. Cycle of self-defeating thoughts leads to depression, leads to more negative thoughts, and spins into downward spiral. Mood disorders as being affected by neurotransmitters and genetics.
500
Categories of personality disorders and causes?
(1) odd or eccentric (2) dramatic or erratic (3) anxious or fearful Causes: genetics, lower than normal levels of hormones, possibly explaining the lack of consequences for negative behaviors.