Disruptive/Impulse-Control, Conduct Disorders
Patients repeatedly act on the impulse to steal objects they dont really need.
What is Kleptomania?
These people are withdrawn, cold, suspicious, or irrational.
What is Cluster A?
Patient cannot remember important information that is usually of a personal nature.
What is dissociative amnesia?
Chronic condition is characterized by unexplained physical symptoms.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
These people are suspicious and quick to take offense. They often have few confidants and may read hidden meaning into innocent remarks.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
These patients deliberately set fire.
What is Pyromania?
Tend to be theatrical, emotional, and attending seeking; their moods are labile and often shallow. They often have intense interpersonal relationships.
What is Cluster B?
One or more additional identities intermittently seize control of the patients behavior
What is dissociative identity disorder?
Formerly called hypochondriacs.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
These timid people are so easily wounded by criticism that they hesitate to become involved with others. They may fear embarrassment of showing emotion or of saying things that seem foolish. They may have no close friends, and they exaggerate the risks of undertaking pursuits outside their usual routine.
What is avoidant personality disorder?
Has frequent, repeated, spontaneous outbursts of aggression (verbal or physical without damage) OR less frequent physical eruptions with harm to people, property or animals. These outbursts are unplanned, have no goal, and are excessive for the provocation.
What is Intermittent Explosive Disorder?
Tend to be anxious and tense, often overcontrolled.
What is Cluster C?
Sense of being cut off or detached from oneself.
What is depersonalization?
These patients complain of isolated symptoms that seem to have no physical cause.
What is Conversion Disorder?
Overly emotional, vague, and desperate for attention, these people need constant reassurance about their attractiveness. They may be self-centered and sexually seductive.
What is histrionic personality disorder?
These patients are often angry and irritable, tending toward touchiness and hair trigger temper. They will disobey authority figures or argue with them, and they may refuse to cooperate or follow rules-- if only to annoy. They sometimes accuse others of their own misdeeds; some appear malicious.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
Lifelong, with roots in adolescence and childhood.
What is onset?
Feeling that the exterior world is unreal or odd.
What is derealization?
Patients who want to occupy the sick role.
What is Factitious disorder?
These patients care little for social relationships, have restricted emotional range, and seem indifferent to criticism and praise. Tending to be solitary, they avoid close (including sexual) relationships.
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?
Chronically disrespects rules and other peoples rights.
What is Conduct Disorder?
Consistent with individuals' values, beliefs, and self-image
What is Ego-syntonic?
Localized, Generalized, Continuous, Systematized.
What are the four types of dissociative amnesia?
Formerly known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
What is Factitious Disorder imposed on another?
These impulsive people engage in behavior that is harmful to themselves. Affectively unstable, they often show intense, inappropriate anger. They feel empty or bored, and frantically try to avoid abandonment. They are uncertain about who they are, and they lack the ability to maintain stable interpersonal relationships.
What is borderline personality disorder?