Psychological Disorders

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The 4 criteria used in determining a psychological disorder

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1. Maladaptive: A behavior that interferes with your daily function.

2. Atypical: Something that is not typical.

3. Disturbing: Creepy, makes you uncomfortable

4. Irrational/Unjustifiable: A fear/phobia

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System used by clinicians in diagnosing various psychological disorders

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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When someone is very anxious, aroused, and intense

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Phobia

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An irrational fear and avoidance of a situation

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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Thought process and actions- repetitive and unwanted

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Panic Disorder

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Feeling of dread, clammy and near palpation's

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Post traumatic Stress Disorder

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Stems form a traumatic event

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Selective memory lose brought by extreme stress

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Dissociative Fugue

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Flee from home and identity and starts a new life

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Person who exhibits 1 or more personalities

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Major Depressive Disorder

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Common cold of psychical disorders

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Mania

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Hyperactive and wildly active state

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Bipolar Disorder

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A person who changes personalities

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Paranoid Schizophrenic

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Out of touch with reality

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Disorganized Schizophrenic

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Disorganized speech or behavior or flat and inappropriate emotion

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Catatonic Schizophrenic

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immobility of the body, statue like, very negative

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Undifferentiated Schizophrenic

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They have the same schizophrenic symptoms, but disorganized

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Personality Disorders

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Can have genetic component

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Person who lacks conscious, ruthless, and clever

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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In constant need for praise and reinsurance, and acts out

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Narcissist Personality Disorder

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Everything revolves around the person, thinks there better than everyone else

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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A person who experiences an unstable way of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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A person who suspects without evidence that others are harming/deceiving them

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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Person who shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flat emotions, don't like to be around people

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Schizotypical Personality Disorder

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Person who shows odd behavior, they do strange things to the extreme

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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One that wants to avoid people, personally unappealing

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Dependent Personality Disorder

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Difficulty making every day decisions without advice, they have to be around people

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insanity

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the state of being seriously mentally ill

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Hallucinations

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an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present.

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delusions

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an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted

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affect

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make a difference to

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neurosis

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a relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress

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psychosis

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a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.

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Seasonal Affective Disorder

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depression associated with late autumn and winter and thought to be caused by a lack of light.

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Conversion Disorder

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a mental health condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis, or other nervous system

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Anorexia

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a lack or loss of appetite for food

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Bulimia

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an emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight