Mental Health Pathology Flashcards
Mental Disorder
Impaired judgement and lack of self-control
Anxiety Disorders
Characterized by persistent worry and apprehension
Panic Attacks
Feeling of intense apprehension, terror, or sense of impending danger
Anxiety
Feeling of dread in the absence of a clearly identifiable stress trigger
Phobias
Irrational fear, such as arachnophobia, or fear of spiders
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Performing repetitive rituals to reduce anxiety
Dementia
Progressive confusion and disorientation
Alzheimer’s Disease
Degenerative brain disorder with gradual loss of cognitive abilities
Mental Retardation
Subaverage intellectual functioning
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Inattention and impulsive behavior
Autism
Condition involving deficits in social interaction, communication skills, and restricted patterns of behavior
Dissociative Disorders
Disorders in which severe emotional conflict is so repressed that a slit in the personality may occur or the person may lose memory
Amnesia
Loss of memory
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Having two or more distinct personalities
Eating Disorders
Abnormal behaviors related to eating
Anorexia Nervosa
Refusal to eat
Bulimia
Binge eating and intentional vomiting
Factitious Disorders
Intentionally feigning illness symptoms in order to gain attention