Psychological Disorders Flashcards
Panic disorder
An extreme anxiety that manifest
Itself on the form so panic attacks
Anxiety
A vague generalized apprehension
Or felling that one is in danger
Phobia
An intense and irrational fear of a particular
Object or situation
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience the original event
In the form of dreams so flashbacks
DSM-IV
The fifth version of the American Psychiatric
Associations Diagnostic and Statical Manual
of Meantal Disorders
A condition in which there is no apparent physical cuase
Somatoform disorder
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of specific function of the body
Conversation disorders
Dissociative disorder
A disorder in which a person experiences
Alternations in memory, identity or consciousnesses
The inability to recall important events or information is usually associated with stressful events
Dissociative amnesia
A dissociative fugue
Dissociative disorder in which a person
Suddenly and unexpectedly travels away
From home or work and is unable to recall the
Past
Dissociative identity disorder
A person exhibits two or more personality
States, each with its own patterns of thinking and behaving
Schizophrenia
A group of disorders characterized by
Confused or disconnected thoughts emotions and perception
Delusions
False belief that a person maintain in the contrary evidence
Hallucinations
Perceptions that have no direct external cause
Major depressive disorder
Severe form of a person experiences feelings of worthlessness a diminished pleasure or interest in many activities
