- a group of conditions where the primary symptoms are anxiety or defenses against anxiety
- patient fears something awful will happen to them
Phobias
- they are in a state of intense apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty or fear
- a person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread
- must be an irrational fear
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- continuously tense, apprehensive and in a state of automatic nervous system arousal
- constantly tense and worried, feels inadequate, oversensitive, cant concentrate and suffers from insomnia
Panic Disorder
- marked by a minute long episode of intense dread where a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking and other frightening sensations
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- persistent unwanted thoughts causes someone to feel the need to engage in particular actions
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- flashbacks or nightmares following a person's involvement in or observation of an extremely stressful event
- memories of the event can cause anxiety
Somatoform Disorders
- occurs when a person manifests a psychological problem though a physiological symptom
Hypocondriasis
- frequent physical complaint where doctors cannot seem to find the cause
Conversion Disorder
- report the existence of of severe physical problems with no biological reason
Dissociative Disorders
- involve a disruption in the conscious process
Psychogenic Amnesia
- a person cannot remember things with no physiological basis for the disruption in memory
- retrograde amnesia
- not organic amnesia
Dissociative Fugue
- people with psychogenic amnesia find themselves in an unfamiliar environment
Dissociative Identity Disorder
- multiple personality disorder
- several rather than one, integrated personality
- commonly have a history of childhood abuse or trauma
Mood Disorders
- experience extreme inappropriate emotion
- Major Depression
- AKA unipolar depression
- unhappy for at least 2 weeks with no apparent cause
- common cold of psych disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- experience depression in the winter months
- not temp caused but lack of sunlight
- treated with light therapy
- Bipolar Disorder
- formally manic depression
- involves periods of depression and manic episodes
- manic episodes involve feelings of high energy
Personality Disorders
- well established maladaptive ways of behaving that negatively affect peoples ability to functi
- dominates personality
- lack of empathy
- little regard for other's feelings
- view the world as hostile and only look out for themselves
- Rely too much on the attention and help of others
Histrionic Personality Disorder
- needs to be the center of attention
- whether acting silly or dressing provocatively
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- unwarranted sense of self importance
- thinking you are the center of the universe
Schizophrenic Disorders
- 1 in 100 have schizophrenia
Symptoms:
- Disorganized Thinking
- thinking is fragmented and bizarre and distorted with false beliefs
- comes from a breakdown in selective attention
- they cant filter out info
- Delusions of Persecution
- being chased
- delusions of grandeur - over exaggeration
- Disturbed Perceptions
- hallucinations - sensory experience without sensory stimulation
- Inappropriate Emotions and Actions
- laugh at inappropriate times
- flat effect
- senseless, compulsive acts
- catatonia - motionless
Positive v. Negative Symptoms:
- Positive (inappropriate)
- hallucinations
- disorganized diluted in talk (word salad)
- inappropriate laughter, tears and rage
- Negative ( absence of appropriateness)
- monotone
- expressionless
- mute
- rigid body
Types of Schizophrenia
- Disorganized Schizophrenia
- disorganized speech, behavior or inappropriate emotion
- imagine the worst
- Paranoid Schizophrenia
- preoccupations with delusions and hallucinations
- Catatonic Schizophrenia
- flat effect/ waxy flexibility
- parrot like repeating of speech and movements
- Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
- many varied symptoms
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