DSM Flashcards
Personality disorder
Pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates from expectation of one’s culture, manifested in two of the following areas: cognition, affect, interpersonal functioning, impulse control
Pattern is inflexible and pervasive across personal and social situations
Pattern lead to clinically significant distress and impairments in function
Pattern onset can be trans back to early childhood or adolescence
Pattern is not better explained by another mental disorder
Pattern is not attributed to physiological effects of substance or medical condition 
Cluster A
Paranoid personality disorder: preoccupation with unjust, doubt, and suspicion in others
Schizoid personality disorder: detachment from social relationships, and restricted emotional range
Schizo, hypo, personality disorder: pattern off discomfort and close relationships, cognitive, or perceptual distortions, eccentricities
Cluster B
Antisocial personality disorder: in an individual over the age of 18, evidence of conduct disorder before age 15, failure to conform to societal norms with respect to lawful behavior, disregard for safety of others, lack of remorse
Borderline personality disorder: instability from interpersonal relationships, self image, impulsivity, affect
Histrionic personality disorder: pattern of excessive emotionality, and attention behaviour
Narcissistic personality disorder: pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy
Cluster C
Avoid and personality disorder: pattern of social inhibition, feeling of inadequacy, hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
Dependent personality disorder: pattern of submission and clinging behaviour related to excess need to be taken care of
Obsessive compulsive personality disorder: preoccupation with orderliness, perfection, control
Panic disorder
Recurrent unexpected panic attacks, surge of intense fear that peaks with the minutes, four of the following, including: sweating, trembling, shaking, feeling of choking, nausea, chest discomfort, feeling of losing control
At least one of the attack has been followed by one month of either: persistent worry about additional attacks, maladaptive behaviour related to attack
Not due to physiological effect of substance or mental disorder
Agoraphobia
Marked fear or anxiety, in two of the following: public transportation, open spaces, enclosed spaces, being in a crowd or line, being outside of home alone
Situation always provokes fearing anxiety
Fear related to lack of escape
Fear out of proportion from
Fear, persistent, lasting for six months
Specific phobia
Fear out of proportion last team for six months or more
Social anxiety disorder
Fear, anxiety about social situation were individual is exposed to possible scrutiny, including social interactions, being observed, performing in front of others
Individual, fierce that they will act in the way to be negatively evaluated
Social situation almost always provoked, fear, anxiety
Avoidance of social situations out of intense fear
Out of proportion of social context
Present for more than six months
Impairment and function
Not due to medical condition or substance, or other mental health condition
Generalized anxiety disorder
Excessive fear, or worry occurring for more days than not for at least six months
Difficult to control worry
Worry associated with three of: restlessness or beyond edge, easily fatigue, mind going blank or difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance
Clinically significant distress or impairment, his social, occupational, other areas of functioning
Not due to substance or another mental disorder
Major depressive disorder
Depression, or decreased interest for more than two weeks with change in function, +3 of: Sleep, guilt, energy, concentration, appetite, suicidal ideation, psychomotor agitation or retardation
Persistent depressive disorder
Greater than two years of depressive symptoms
Adjustment disorder of depressed mood
In response to stress or less than three months ago and resolves within six months
Grief
Depressive symptoms pertaining to the source of grief, lasting less than three months
Bipolar one
More than when week of increase, energy and activities, with three of:
Distractibility, irresponsibility, grandiosity, flight of ideas, activity, decrease sleep, talkativeness
Psychiatric diagnostic pyramid
Organic disease
Medication
Psychosis
Mood disorder
Anxiety
Personality disorder