Anxiety
This disorder involves excessive worry about everyday activities, lasting for at least six months.
A lack of interest or pleasure in activities is referred to by this term in clinical settings.
What is anhedonia?
This disorder often occurs at least 3 days after a terrifying event and involves flashbacks, nightmares, and hypervigilance.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
Delusions often fall under this category of psychotic symptoms, which are described as "added" experiences.
What are positive symptoms?
Personality disorders are grouped into this many clusters in the DSM-5.
What are clusters?
This term describes a recurring thought or image that causes significant anxiety in individuals with OCD.
This Cluster C disorder involves an extreme fear of rejection and avoidance of social interaction.
What is avoidant personality disorder?
This intense fear of specific objects, animals, or situations often leads to avoidance behavior.
What is a phobia?
This term describes the chronic form of depression with less severe symptoms lasting at least two years.
What is persistent depressive disorder?
This mental health disorder can develop at least one month after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event.
What is PTSD?
The false belief that someone is out to harm you is an example of this.
What is paranoid delusion?
This disorder involves a pervasive pattern of disregard for others and violations of societal norms.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
Compulsions must significantly interfere with daily life and take up at least this amount of time each day.
What is one hour?
This term describes the long-standing and inflexible nature of personality disorders.
What is pervasive?
This disorder is characterized by sudden episodes of intense fear, including physical symptoms like chest pain and shortness of breath.
What is panic disorder?
This depression specifier is linked to hormonal changes and occurs after childbirth.
What is "with post-partum onset?"
This NEW psychological effect occurs when trauma memories are triggered by specific sights, sounds, or smells.
What is an activator or dysregulator?
This term describes firmly held false beliefs, often found in psychotic disorders.
What are delusions?
This Cluster A disorder is marked by pervasive distrust and suspicion of others.
What is paranoid personality disorder?
This type of OCD is characterized by excessive cleaning rituals.
What is contamination OCD?
This disorder involves social detachment and limited emotional expression.
What is schizoid personality disorder?
This disorder is marked by fear of being judged or embarrassed in public situations.
What is social anxiety disorder?
A lack of energy and feeling physically or emotionally drained is referred to as this.
This symptom involves reliving traumatic events through nightmares or flashbacks.
What is re-experiencing?
This brief form of psychosis occurs in response to extreme stress and resolves within a month.
This personality disorder is characterized by instability in relationships, self-image, and emotions, along with impulsivity.
What is borderline personality disorder?
This type of OCD involves an obsession with evenness, order, or things being "just right."
What is symmetry OCD?
This term describes the overarching trait of Cluster C personality disorders.
What is anxiety or fearfulness?
This physical symptom, common in anxiety, includes a racing or pounding heartbeat.
What is heart palpitations?
This symptom of depression involves changes in sleeping patterns, such as getting too much sleep.
What is hypersomnia?
This state of hyperawareness and difficulty relaxing is common in trauma survivors.
What is hypervigilance?
This condition features psychotic symptoms during extreme mood episodes, such as mania or depression.
What is Schizoaffective disorder?
This Cluster B disorder involves dramatic, erratic behavior and a pattern of attention-seeking.
What is histrionic personality disorder?
Repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed to reduce anxiety are referred to as this.
Individuals with this disorder are preoccupied with orderliness, perfectionism, and control.
What is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD)?
This term describes a persistent feeling of restlessness or being "on edge," often reported by people with anxiety.
What is hyperarousal?
Depression triggered by a major life event, such as a divorce or job loss, falls into this category.
This type of trauma results from systematic oppression, racism, or cultural discrimination.
What is cultural or historical trauma?
Hearing voices that others cannot hear is a classic example of this type of symptom.
What is auditory hallucination?
Cluster A disorders are often referred to as this type of personality style.
This disorder involves compulsive skin picking, often resulting in tissue damage.
What is Excoriation Disorder?
This personality disorder involves excessive reliance on others for decision-making and support.
What is dependent personality disorder?
Anxiety disorders are more commonly diagnosed in this gender.
What is women?
This rare and severe symptom of depression involves physical symptoms like inability to move or speak.
What is catatonia?
This term refers to trauma experienced collectively by a group, often due to war, genocide, or displacement.
What is collective trauma?
This disorder, marked by extreme highs and lows, can involve psychosis during manic or depressive episodes.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
Cluster B personality disorders are commonly described using these two adjectives.
What are "dramatic and emotional"?
This disorder, characterized by an overwhelming need to pull out one’s hair, is related to OCD.
What is trichotillomania?
Personality disorders are thought to result from a combination of these two influences.
What are genetics and environment?
A fear of open or crowded spaces is the hallmark of this anxiety-related condition.
What is agoraphobia?
What is a major depressive episode?
A consistent pattern of emotionally withdrawn behavior towards caregivers.
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?
This type of delusion involves the false belief that a person, often famous, is in love with the individual.
What is an erotomanic delusion?
Individuals with this disorder may have odd beliefs, eccentric behavior, and discomfort in social relationships.
What is schizotypal personality disorder?
This condition involves a compulsion to collect and an inability to discard items, even if they have no value.
What is hoarding disorder?
Individuals with borderline personality disorder may engage in this dangerous behavior, such as self-harm or reckless actions.
What is impulsivity?