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Characterised by persistent feelings of sadness and a lack of motivation.
Major depressive disorder.
This personality disorder is characterised by extreme instability of moods and relationships, and may include self-harm.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Fear of insects.
These are the criteria for diagnosing depression, where a person must experience a depressed mood or lack of interest/pleasure for a minimum of this duration.
Two weeks.
GABA and Glutamate play a significant role in anxiety disorders. What are they?
Neurotransmitters.
Schizophrenia affects these three aspects of an individual's mental functioning.
Thoughts, behaviours, and perception of reality.
Direct exposure to a distressing or traumatic event can act as this, contributing to the development of specific phobias.
Environmental trigger.
These strong beliefs, often involving persecution or grandeur, are held despite evidence that they are untrue in individuals with schizophrenia.
Delusions.
This anxiety disorder involves repetitive thoughts and behaviors, such as the need to wash hands frequently or check surroundings.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
This symptom of schizophrenia involves hearing, seeing, or feeling things that are not actually present.
Hallucinations.
An irrational fear of a specific object or situation, lasting at least six months, is known as this.
Phobia.
This type of therapy focuses on changing negative thought patterns and is effective in treating mood disorders.
Cognitive therapy.
Individuals with this personality disorder may have an exaggerated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration, often lacking empathy for others.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
A long-lasting form of depression is less severe than Major Depressive Disorder but still involves persistent feelings of sadness and low self-esteem.
Dysthymia.
This mood disorder involves periods of feeling overly happy or fluctuations from extreme happiness to extreme sadness.
Bipolar disorder.
Genetic predisposition and neurotransmitter imbalances are biological factors that contribute to this mental health condition.
Major depression.
This disorder is characterised by excessive worry about everyday life events, often accompanied by restlessness and difficulty concentrating.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder
This term describes the condition where a person with a psychotic disorder may have disorganised or incoherent speech, indicating confused thoughts.
Word salad.
The exaggerated response of this survival mechanism can lead to heightened anxiety even in non-threatening situations.
'Fight, flight, freeze' response
Ochlophobia.
Individuals with this disorder often appear charming but are unreliable, lack empathy, and violate others' rights.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
People with this disorder:
Lie frequently, have no regard for right or wrong, use their false charm to manipulate others, and are arrogant, impulsive and hostile.
They lack empathy which often leads to poor or abusive relationships, and are unable to consider the consequences of their behaviour
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Changes in emotion and behaviour can be erratic and unpredictable from childish and mischievous to aggressive or bizarre.
Schizophrenia.
The learning theory, which explains how neutral stimuli paired with other stimuli can develop into conditioned responses, is used to understand the development of anxiety disorders.
Classical conditioning.
This type of therapy is commonly used to treat Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychological therapy (talking, cognitive, behavioural).