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What is Acute PTSD?
PTSD symptoms that occur within 1 to 6 months after the triggering event.
What is Chronic PTSD?
PTSD symptoms that last for more than 6 months after the triggering event.
What is Delayed Onset PTSD?
PTSD symptoms that develop more than 6 months after the triggering event.
What are Dissociative Symptoms in PTSD?
Symptoms paired with depersonalization or derealization in PTSD.
What is Phobic Disorder?
A condition characterized by irrational fears of specific objects or situations like spiders, snakes, or heights.
What is Social Phobia?
A fear of humiliation or public speaking, also known as social anxiety disorder.
What is Agoraphobia?
A fear of busy areas, open spaces, or situations where escape may be difficult.
What are the types of Specific Phobias?
Animal Type, Natural Environment Type, Blood Injection Injury Type, and Situational Type.
What is Panic Disorder?
Abrupt anxiety attacks that are unrelated to specific objects or situations.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
Persistent anxiety on at least 50% of days about various events, not attributed to a specific phobic object or situation.
What is Left Frontal Lobe Activation?
Activation of the left frontal lobe in the brain, associated with certain mental processes.
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
Sudden inability to recall important personal information, often related to traumatic or stressful events.
What is Dissociative Fugue?
Abruptly leaving home or work, traveling to a new place, and losing memory of past life, a form of dissociative amnesia.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
Formerly known as multiple personality disorder, it involves two or more distinct identities or personalities.
What is Depersonalization?
Detachment from one's mental processes or body, feeling like in a dream state.
What is Derealization?
Experiencing unreality of surroundings, losing a sense of the external world.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
A condition characterized by recurrent anxiety-provoking thoughts (obsessions) and compulsive behaviors or mental acts (compulsions).
What are the major categories of OCD compulsions?
Checking, Ordering, Arranging, Washing/Cleaning.
What is Schizophrenia?
A mental disorder characterized by disturbances in thought, language, perception, motor activity, mood, and withdrawal from reality.
What are the 4 causes of Schizophrenia?
Genetics, drugs, abnormalities in brain function, and environmental risk factors.
What are the 3 phases of Schizophrenia?
Prodromal (before acute phase), Active/Acute (hallucinations, delusions), Residual (after acute phase).
What are Somatoform Disorders?
Psychological disorders where physical symptoms cannot be explained by a medical condition.
What is Somatization Disorder?
Complaining of physical problems like pain or paralysis without physical evidence.
What is Conversion Disorder?
Major change or loss of physical functioning without medical explanation, not intentionally produced.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
Previously known as hypochondriasis, strong belief of having a serious illness despite few or no symptoms.
What are Factitious Disorders?
Conditions where a person intentionally creates or complains of physical symptoms without obvious external rewards.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder (IAD)?
Illness anxiety disorder is a recent term for what used to be diagnosed as hypochondriasis. People diagnosed with IAD strongly believe they have a serious or life-threatening illness despite few or no symptoms, yet their concerns are very real to them.
What are Factitious Disorders?
Factitious disorders are conditions in which a person knowingly and intentionally creates or complains of physical and/or emotional symptoms in order to place themselves in the role of a patient or a person in need of help.