General
Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
What are Psychological Disorders?
A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
What is ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)?
A mood disorder where a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities.
The fear of large, crowded spaces.
What is Agoraphobia?
ADHD
What is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes
What is a mood disorder?
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions).
What is OCD?
A mood disorder in which a person fluctuates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the hyperactivity of mania.
Fear of water
What is Aquaphobia?
GAD
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.
Psychological stress disorder characterized by episodes of anxiety, sleeplessness, and nightmares resulting from some disturbing event in the past.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
A mood disorder characterized by depression that occurs at the same time every year, often caused by light or changes to the circadian rhythm.
The fear of small spaces
What is Claustrophobia?
OCD
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
A piece of widely used literature to classify and identify symptoms of psychological disorders.
What is DSM-V?
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized or delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions.
What is Schizophrenia?
A type of depression at many levels of severity that is chronic for short periods of time, followed by periods of relief.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
Fear of being alone.
What is Autophobia?
PTSD
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders.
What are delusions?
A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
A type of depression characterized by occurring during or after pregnancy.
What is Postpartum Depression (PPD)?
The fear of death or dead bodies.
What is Necrophobia?
DSM-V
What is the 5th Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?