Personality Disorders
Symptoms of ________
- Grandiose sense of self-importance
- Belief in superiority
- Need for admiration
- Entitlement
- Willingness to exploit others
- Frequent envy
- Arrogance
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Symptoms of ________
- Gaps in memory
- Daily functioning & socializing challenges
- Having at least two identities
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
A mental health condition where a person compulsively swallows non-food items. Marker of learning disability/autism/OCD/Schizophrenia. Comorbidity with anxiety disorders (coping strategies).
What is PICA?
Symptoms of ________
(2 or more of the following for a significant portion of time during a 1 month period):
- Delusions
- Hallucinations
- Disorganized speech
- Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
- Negative symptoms
What is Schizophrenia?
Symptoms of ________
- Loses things frequently
- Difficulty organizing tasks and activities
- Issues staying focused on tasks
- Doesn't listen or daydreams
- Fidgets or squirms frequently
- Runs or climbs when inappropriate
- Trouble with quiet activities
- Has trouble waiting for their turn
What is Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)
Symptoms of ________
- Fear of abandonment
- Impulsive behaviors
- Unstable relationships
- Emotional instability
- Self-harm
- Distorted self-image
- Dissociative states
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Symptoms of _______
- Severe memory loss
- Lack of awareness
- Confusion/disorientation
- Travel or wandering
- Flashbacks
- Forgotten skills
- Relationship and trust issues
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
Developed in early 19th century by mathematician, a calculation that measures a person's weight relative to their height
What is the Body Mass Index (BMI)?
Symptoms of ________
(Presence of 1 or more symptoms; Duration of an episode of the disturbance is at least 1 day, but less than 1 month)
- delusions
- hallucinations
- disorganized speech
- grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
What is Brief Psychotic Disorder?
A difference in brain functioning that affects how a person communicates and interacts with others
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Symptoms of ________
- Seductive or provocative behavior
- Uses appearance to draw attention
- Dramatic or exaggerated emotions
- Suggestible
- Thinks relationships are closer than they are
- Impressionistic and vague speech
- Shifting and shallow emotions
- A need to be the center of attention
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Symptoms of ________
- Disconnected from your thoughts, feelings, and body
[or]
- Disconnected from your surroundings or environment
- Robot-like or that those around you are robotic
- Emotionally numb
- Like you're observing yourself from outside your body
- Like you're living in a dream world
- Sad/anxious
What is Derealization/Depersonalization Disorder?
Symptoms of ________
- restricted food intake
- distorted self-image
- intense fear of gaining weight
- low bone density
- excessive exercising
- withdrawing from socializing
- intentional vomiting
- significant weight loss
- fatigue
- dizziness and/or fainting
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Symptoms of _______
- Feelings of being exploited
- Preoccupation with the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends
- A tendency to read threatening meanings to benign remarks or events
- Persistently holding grudges
- A readiness to respond and react to perceived slights
Presence of 1 or more delusions with a duration of 1 month or longer
Criterion A for schizophrenia never met
What is Delusional Disorder?
Symptoms of ________
- delays in rolling over, sitting up, crawling and walking
- trouble with fine motor skills
- problems understanding what others say
- trouble with problem-solving
- issues with social skills
- problems talking or talking late
- difficulty remembering things
- inability to connect actions with consequences
What is Global Developmental Delay?
Symptoms of ________
- Impulsive behavior
- Feelings of superiority
- Disregard for rules
- Not accepting of responsibility
- Hostility toward others
- Manipulating others
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Symptoms of ________
- Physical symptoms that cause distress
- Excessive focus on symptoms
- High levels of anxiety about health
- Significant time and energy spent on health concerns
- Symptoms last a long time
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
Symptoms of ________
- frequent bathroom visits (purge)
- excessive exercising
- preoccupation with body image
- intense fear of gaining weight
- recurrent episodes of binge eating
- feeling guilty or shameful about eating
- withdrawing socially from friends and family
- swollen cheeks or jawline
- muscle weakeness
- bloodshot eyes
- dehydration
- gastrointestinal issues
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
Symptoms of ________
- Lack of close friends and relationships
- Flat or limited emotional response
- Social Anxiety
- Suspicious or paranoid thoughts/'magical' thinking
- Odd speech
- Unusual beliefs or ideas
- Odd or eccentric behavior and appearance
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
An impairment in the ability to receive, send, process, and comprehend concepts or verbal, nonverbal, and graphic symbol systems
What is communication disorder?
Symptoms of ________
- Lack of close friends and relationships
- Flat or limited emotional response
- Social Anxiety
- Suspicious or paranoid thoughts/'magical' thinking
- Odd speech
- Unusual beliefs or ideas
- Odd or eccentric behavior and appearance
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
Symptoms of ________
- Avoiding people or places
- Repeatedly checking for signs of illness
- Exaggerating symptoms and their severity
- High level of anxiety about health
- Constantly researching diseases and symptoms
- Obsession with usual body functions
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
Symptoms of ________
- recurrent episodes of binge-eating
- eating past the point of satisfaction to discomfort
- eating large amounts of food when one isn't hungry or after recently finishing a meal
- eating much more rapidly than norm
- eating alone because of feeling embarrassed
- emotional eating (response to stress)
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
A mental health condition with symptoms of schizophrenia + a mood disorder
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
Neurodevelopmental disorder that usually manifests in early school-aged children. It is characterized by a persistent impairment in at least one of the three primary areas: reading, writing, and/or mathematics.
What is Specific Learning Disorder?