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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.
What is La Belle Indifference?
La Belle Indifference refers to patients' inappropriately careless attitude toward serious symptoms, being unconcerned about what appears to be a major impairment.
What is Malingering?
Malingering is the intentional production of false or grossly exaggerated symptoms motivated by external incentives.
What are Positive Symptoms of Type 1 Schizophrenia?
Positive symptoms of Type 1 Schizophrenia include active manifestations, obvious signs, distortions of normal behavior, exaggeration, excesses, bizarre/disorganized behavior, ambivalence, abnormal thought and speech, and delusions.
What are Negative Symptoms of Type 2 Schizophrenia?
Negative symptoms of Type 2 Schizophrenia include absence or insufficiency of normal behavior, such as alogia (lack of speaking), affective flattening (unresponsive body language), anhedonia (unpleasurable), attention impairment, avolition/apathy (loss of motivation), asocial behavior, and anergia (lack of energy).
What are the Subtypes of Schizophrenia?
The subtypes of schizophrenia include Paranoid Schizophrenia, Disorganized Schizophrenia (Hebephrenia), Residual Type, Undifferentiated, and Catatonic Schizophrenia.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Major Depressive Disorder is a serious to severe depressive disorder in which the person may show loss of appetite, psychomotor retardation, and impaired reality testing.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar Disorder is a disorder in which the mood alternates between two extreme poles, elation and depression, also referred to as manic depression.
What is Mania in the context of Bipolar Disorder?
Mania is a distinct period of abnormally and persistently elated, expansive, or irritable mood lasting at least 1 week, or any duration if hospitalization is necessary.
What is Hypomania in the context of Bipolar Disorder?
Hypomania is a distinct period of persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood lasting throughout at least 4 days, not severe enough to cause marked impairment in daily routines.
What are Eating Disorders?
Eating disorders involve a persistent disturbance of eating or eating-related behavior resulting in altered consumption or absorption of food that significantly impairs physical health or psychosocial functioning.
What is Pica?
Pica is the eating of nonnutritive, nonfood substances for at least 1 month that is severe enough to warrant clinical attention, not part of their culture or normative practice, and may occur during pregnancy.
What is Rumination Disorder?
Rumination Disorder is the repeated regurgitation of food after feeding.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Persistent energy intake restriction, intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, and disturbance in self-perceived weight or shape. It is resistant to treatment and weight is below the minimal normal level for age, sex, and BMI.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
Characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating in a discrete period of time, where the amount of food consumed is larger than most people would eat. This is followed by compensatory behaviors to prevent weight gain, such as vomiting or taking laxatives.
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
Involves recurrent binge eating episodes, including eating more quickly than usual, eating until over full, eating large amounts even if not hungry, and eating alone due to embarrassment about the large amount of food consumed.
Define Personality Disorder.
When personality traits are inflexible and maladaptive, causing significant functional impairment or subjective distress, they constitute personality disorders.
What are the three clusters of Personality Disorders?
Cluster A (odd and eccentric), Cluster B (dramatic and unpredictable), Cluster C (anxious and fearful). Each cluster includes specific personality disorders with distinct characteristics.
What is Voyeuristic Disorder?
Biologically undesirable behavior of spying on others in private activities.
What is Exhibitionistic Disorder?
Biologically undesirable behavior of exposing the genitals to others.
What is Frotteuristic Disorder?
Biologically undesirable behavior of touching or rubbing against a non-consenting individual in a sexual manner.
What is Sexual Masochism Disorder?
Biologically undesirable behavior of seeking humiliation, bondage, or suffering during sexual activities.
What is Sexual Sadism Disorder?
Biologically undesirable behavior of inflicting humiliation, bondage, or suffering on others for sexual gratification.
What is Pedophilic Disorder?
Biologically undesirable sexual focus on children.
What is Fetishistic Disorder?
Biologically undesirable behavior of using nonliving objects or having a highly specific focus on non-genital body parts for sexual arousal.
What is Transvestic Disorder?
Biologically undesirable behavior of engaging in sexually arousing cross-dressing.
What is Susto?
Fright disorder observed in Latin America.
What are Ataques De Nervios?
Anxiety-related syndrome seen in Hispanic Americans and Caribbeans, characterized by panic attacks, shouting uncontrollably, and bursting into tears.
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