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Diagnoses Flashcards

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Cluster A

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Odd/Eccentric

Withdrawn, social awkwardness, inflexible, distorted thinking

Schizoid PD
Paranoid PD
Schizotypal PD

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Cluster B

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Dramatic, emotional, erratic

problems with impulse control, emotion regulation

Borderline PD
Histrionic PD
Narcissistic PD
Antisocial PD

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Cluster C

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Anxious/Fearful

Obsessive thoughts, feelings of inadequacy, lack of independence/need to be taken care of

Obsessive Compulsive PD
Avoidant PD
Dependent PD

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Bipolar Disorders

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Mood episodes- mania, hypomania, depression
Energy fluctuations

Bipolar 1: full mania, mania prevalent
Bipolar 2: depression-prevalent
Cyclythymic Disorder: cycling up-and-down mood swings not classified as Bipolar 1 or 2

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Somatic Disorders

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Somatic Symptom Disorder
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Conversion Disorder
Factitious Disorder 
(e.g. Munchausen Syndrome)
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Anxiety Disorders

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Generalized Anxiety
Agoraphobia
Social anxiety
Phobias
Panic Disorder
Separation Anxiety
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Trauma and Stress Related Disorders

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PTSD
Acute Stress Disorder
Adjustment Disorder
Reactive Attachment Disorder

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Disordered Eating

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Anorexia Nervosa
Bulemia
Binge Eating
Pica

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Disordered Sleep

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Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorder
Hypersomnolence (Hypersomnia)
Insomnia Disorder
Nightmare Disorder
Narcolepsy
R.E.M. Sleep Behavior Disorder
Sleep Apnea
Restless Legs Syndrome
Parasomnias (Sleep Terrors, Sleepwalking, Sleep Eating)
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Depressive Disorders

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Major Depressive Disorder
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Substance-Induced Depression
Depressive Disorder

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Dissociative Disorders

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Depersonalization Disorder
Dissociative Amnesia
Dissociative Fugue
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (NOS)
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Factitious Disorder

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When an individual intentionally creates, fakes, or exaggerates symptoms of illness.

Munchausen syndrome, in which people feign an illness to attract attention, is one severe form of factitious disorder.

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Somatic Symptom Disorder

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Preoccupation with physical symptoms that make it difficult to function normally. This preoccupation with symptoms results in emotional distress and difficulty coping with daily life.

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Conversion Disorder

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Experiencing motor or sensory symptoms that lack a compatible neurological or medical explanation.

Disorder can follow a real physical injury or stressful even which then results in a psychological and emotional response.

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Illness Anxiety Disorder

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Excessive concern about having an undiagnosed medical condition. Those who experience this psychological disorder worry excessively about body functions and sensations are convinced that they have or will get a serious disease, and are not reassured when medical tests come back negative.

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Conduct Disorders

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Kleptomania
Pyromania
Conduct Disorder
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
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Restless legs syndrome

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A neurological condition that involves having uncomfortable sensations in the legs and an irresistible urge to move the legs in order to relieve the sensations. People with this condition may feel tugging, creeping, burning, and crawling sensations in their legs resulting in an excessive movement which then interferes with sleep.

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Parasomnias

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Disorders that feature abnormal behaviors that take place during sleep. Such disorders include sleepwalking, sleep terrors, sleep talking, and sleep eating.

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Hypersomnolence

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Sleeping too much, despite an adequate main sleep period.

People with this condition may fall asleep during the day at inappropriate times such as at work and school.

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Insomnia

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Unable to get enough sleep to feel rested, accompanied by significant distress or impairment over time.

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Narcolepsy

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People experience an irrepressible need to sleep. People with narcolepsy may experience a sudden loss of muscle tone.

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Dissociative Amnesia

Dissociative Fugue

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A temporary loss of memory as a result of dissociation. In many cases, this memory loss, which may last for just a brief period or for many years, is a result of some type of psychological trauma.

Those who experience this disorder may remember some details about events but may have no recall of other details around a circumscribed period of time.

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Depersonalization

Derealization

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Experiencing a sense of being outside of one’s own body (depersonalization) and being disconnected from reality (derealization).

People who have this disorder often feel a sense of unreality and an involuntary disconnect from their own memories, feelings, and consciousness.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, involves the presence of two or more different identities or personalities. Each of these personalities has its own way of perceiving and interacting with the environment.

People with this disorder experience changes in behavior, memory, perception, emotional response, and consciousness.

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PTSD

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  • episodes of reliving or re-experiencing the event
  • avoiding things that remind the individual about the event
  • feeling on edge, and having negative thoughts
  • nightmares, flashbacks
  • bursts of anger
  • difficulty concentrating, remembering
  • exaggerated startle response
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Acute Stress Disorder

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Emergence of severe anxiety for up to a one month period after exposure to a traumatic event such as natural disasters, war, accidents, and witnessing a death

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Adjustment Disorder

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Can affect both children and adults and is characterized by symptoms such as anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, worry, anger, hopelessness, and feelings of isolation

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Developmental Disorders (Neurodevelopmental)

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Intellectual Disability (Global Developmental Delay before the age of 5)
ADHD
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Communication Disorders (language/speech)

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Obsessive-Compulsive Conditions

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OCD (and Substance Induced OCD)
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Hoarding Disorder
Trichotillomania (hair-pulling)
Excoriation (skin-picking)
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Antisocial PD

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  • fire setting, cruelty to animals, difficulty with authority, legal problems
  • failures to conform to social norms, lack of concern for the rights of others, lack of empathy for others, lack of remorse for damaging behavior
  • deceives others for personal gain, acts out impulsively, fails to consider the consequences of their actions
  • aggressiveness, irritability, physical assaults, abusive relationships, abuse their children
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Avoidant PD

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  • Anxiety: in social situations, around other people, when taking risks or making decisions, about saying/doing the wrong thing
  • A need to be well-liked, easily hurt by and vigilant for signs of disapproval
  • Avoidance of: intimacy, relationships, social situaitons, conflict, making decisions, work interactions
  • Low self-esteem, self-conscious, unassertive, feelings of inferiority, inadequacy
  • Social inhibition, self-isolation, no close firends, lack of trust of others, fearful
  • Anhedonia (lack of pleasure in activities)
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Borderline PD

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  • Instability, impulsiveness
  • Mood swings and erratic behavior
  • Insecurity, fear of abandonment
  • Anxiety
  • Self-harm, suicidality
  • Unstable relationships
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Defense Mechanisms

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Displacement
Denial
Repression
Sublimation
Projection
Intellectualization
Rationalization
Regression
Reaction Formation
Compensation
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Avoiding thinking about the stressful, emotional aspect of the situation and instead focusing only on the intellectual, factual, or clinical components

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Intellectualization

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Explaining an unacceptable behavior or feeling in a rational or logical manner, avoiding the true reasons for the behavior

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Rationalization

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Taking out our frustrations, feelings, and impulses on people or objects that are less threatening (family, the dog)

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Displacement

-Displaced Aggression

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An outright refusal to admit or recognize that something has occurred or is currently occurring

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Denial

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Keeping information compartmentalized, or otherwise out of conscious awareness

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Repression

Suppression

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Act out unacceptable impulses in more acceptable forms (punching bags)

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Sublimation

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Taking our own unwanted qualities/feelings and ascribing them to another person, casting the blame away from ourselves

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Projection

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When confronted by stressful events, people sometimes abandon coping strategies and revert to patterns of behavior used earlier in development

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Regression

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Behaving in the exact opposite manner to your true feelings (pulling someone’s hair if you like them)

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Reaction Formation

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Overachieving in one area to make up for failures in another

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Compensation

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A chronic pattern of fearing separation and an excessive need to be taken care of. People with this disorder will often engage in behaviors that are designed to produce care-giving actions in others

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Dependent PD

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  • Feel uncomfortable in settings where they are not the center of attention
  • Have rapidly changing emotions
  • Engage in socially inappropriate behaviors designed to attract attention from others
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Histrionic PD

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  • Exaggerated sense of one’s own abilities and achievements
  • Constant need for attention, affirmation, and praise
  • Belief that he or she is unique or special and should only associate with other people of the same status, entitlement
  • Persistent fantasies about attaining success and power, delusions of grandeur
  • Exploiting other people for personal gain
  • Preoccupation with envy and lack of empathy for others
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Narcissistic PD

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  • Excessive need for perfection and control over your environment and interpersonal relationships
  • Preoccupation with details, rules, lists, and order to the extent that you may miss the major objective of an activity
  • An excessive devotion to work at the expense of family or friends
  • Rigidity and inflexibility with regards to morals, ethics, values, and/or the adherence to rules
  • Inability to get rid of items that no longer have value (hoarding), inability to be generous to others
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Obsessive-Compulsive PD

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-Chronic and pervasive distrust and suspicion of others.
-Feelings that they are being lied to, deceived, or exploited by other people.
-May believe that friends, family, and romantic partners are untrustworthy and unfaithful.
-Outbursts of anger in response to perceived deception.
-Often described as cold, jealous, secretive, and serious.
Look for hidden meanings in gestures and conversations.

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Paranoid PD

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  • Detachment from other people, little desire to form close relationships with others
  • Infrequent participation in activities for fun or pleasure
  • A sense of indifference to praise and affirmation, as well as to criticism or rejection
  • Often described as cold, uninterested, withdrawn, and aloof, indifferent to social norms and expectations
  • A preoccupation with introspection and fantasy
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Schizoid PD

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  • Ideas of reference (getting a personal message from an old newspaper)
  • Odd beliefs or magical thinking, and unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions
  • Suspiciousness and paranoid ideation
  • Inappropriate and constricted affect
  • Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar
  • Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
  • Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about oneself
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Schizotypal PD

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