Generalized Anxiety Disorder
At least 6 months of excessive anxiety/worry about events and activities (family, health, financial, school, work, relationships):
-Difficulty controlling the worry
-Impairment in functioning and or significant distress
-At least 3 of the following (physi
Agoraphobia
Pronounced, disproportionate and repeated fear about being in at least 2 of the following situations: Public transportation, parking lots, bridges, or other open spaces, shops, theaters, or other confined places, lines, or crowds, away from home unaccompa
Panic Disorder (with Agoraphobia)
Fear of leaving one's familiar surroundings because one might have a panic attack in public
Panic Disorder (without Agoraphobia)
A chronic state of anxiety and also has brief moments of sudden, intense, unexpected panic
Social Anxiety Disorder
Severe, persistent and irrational anxiety about social situation in which they may face scrutiny by others and possibly feel embarrassment
-Fear of being negatively evaluated
-Avoidance of the situation accompanied by severe distress
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
When obsession or compulsions feel excessive or unreasonable, causing great stress and interfering with daily functions
Hoarding Disorder
People feel that they must save items and will become very distressed if they try to discard them. Part of people's homes become inaccessible because of clutter.
Trichotillomania
*Aka hair pulling disorder
Pulling hair from your scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, or other parts of your body
Excoriation Disorder
Skin picking disorder resulting in significant sores or wounds. Most people pick their hands and at their face.
-Behavior is accompanied with stress or anxiety
-Effects health
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
People become preoccupied with the belief that they have a particular defect or flaw in their physical appearance. This flaw is greatly exaggerated in the person's mind.
Adjustment Disorder
Feelings of stress, sadness, hopelessness, and physical symptoms that can occur after you go through a stressful life event. The symptoms occur because you are having a hard time coping.
Acute Stress Disorder
*Immediate
After a severe trauma in one's life, symptoms may begin with 4 weeks. After 4 weeks, it is labeled PTSD
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
*Aka PTSD
Occurs after a traumatic event in one's life. Symptoms may begin after a month of the event or even years later.
Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder
a dissociative disorder marked by the presence of persistent and recurrent episodes of depersonalization, derealization, or both
Weird sensory experience-feeling unreal
Dissociative Amnesia (with Fugue)
Sudden, unexpected travel from a customary locale, and the inability to recall one's identity after a traumatic event
Dissociative Amnesia (without Fugue)
The primary symptom of dissociative amnesia is the sudden inability to remember past experiences or personal information. Some people with this disorder also might appear confused and suffer from depression and/or anxiety.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
A disorder in which a person develops two or more distinct personalities.
Illness Anxiety Disorder
A disorder in which people are chronically anxious about and preoccupied with the notion that they have or are developing a serious medical illness, despite the absence of somatic symptoms
-Classic hypochondriac
-Gets in the way of functioning
-Can't conc
Factitious Disorder
*Munchausen Syndrome
A disorder in which a person feigns or induces symptoms, typically for the purpose of assuming the role of a sick person
-Faking a disease for social reward
Somatic Symptom Disorder
A disorder in which people become excessively distressed, concerned, and anxious about bodily symptoms that they are experiencing, and their lives are greatly and disproportionally disrupted by the symptoms
-Experience of pain far exceeds expectation of t
Conversion Disorder
A disorder in which bodily symptoms affect voluntary motor and sensory functions, but the symptoms are inconsistent with known medical diseases
-Symptoms are pseudoneurological: paralysis, weakness, numbness, traveling symptoms
-Neurological symptoms don'
Anorexia Nervosa (Restrictive Type)
A person severely restricts their food intake. Restriction may take many forms (e.g. maintaining very low calorie count; restricting types of food eaten; eating only one meal a day) and may follow obsessive and rigid rules (e.g. only eating food of one co
Anorexia Nervosa (Binging-purging type)
A person restricts their intake, but also during some bouts of restriction the person has regularly engaged in binge-eating OR purging behavior (e.g. self induced vomiting, over-exercise, misuse of laxatives, diuretics or enemas).
Bulimia Nervosa
An emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting.
Binge-Eating Disorder
Recurrent episodes of eating large quantities of food (often very quickly and to the point of discomfort); a feeling of a loss of control during the binge; experiencing shame, distress or guilt afterwards; and not regularly using unhealthy compensatory me
Major Depressive Disorder
A mood disorder in which 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.
Persistent Depressive Disorder
a chronic form of unipolar depression marked by ongoing and repeated symptoms of either major or mild depression
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Depression that involves recurrent depressive episodes in a seasonal pattern
Postpartum Depressive Disorder
Depression that occurs within four weeks of giving birth likely as a result of significant change in hormones
Bipolar I Disorder
A type of bipolar disorder marked by full manic and major depressive episodes
Bipolar I disorder requires symptoms to meet the full criteria for what is known as a manic episode. You do not have to experience depression to be diagnosed with Bipolar I, but
Bipolar II Disorder
A disorder characterized by alternating periods of extremely depressed and mildly elevated moods
A person has to have experienced a depressive episode and a less severe form of mania which is known as hypomania. A person experiencing mania will exhibit ma
Cyclothmia
disorder that consists of mood swings from moderate depression to hypomania and lasts 2 years or more
Neurocognitive Disorder
disorder marked by a significant decline in at least one area of cognitive functioning
Schizophrenia
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Characterized by a grandiose sense of self-importance, a preoccupation with fantasies of success or power, and a need for constant attention or admiration
Borderline Personality Disorder
Condition marked by extreme instability in mood, identity, and impulse control
Histrionic Personality Disorder
A personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking
Antisocial Personality Disorder
A personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members; may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist
Those with antisocial personality disorder tend to lie, break laws, act im
Specific Phobia
Persistent fear of a specific object or situation
Common fears are: animals, heights, insects, enclosed spaces, thunderstorms, and blood
-Persistent fear lasting 6 months
-Immediate fear when exposed to the object
-Avoidance of the feared situation
-Signi