| A | B |
|---|
| generalized anxiety | vague feeling of apprehension and loss of control |
| panic attacks | physical manifestation of extreme anxiety |
| phobias | strong unreasonable fear of a situation or object |
| obsessive compulsive disoder | because of uncontrollable thoughts a person has, they have to perform ritualistic behaviors |
| post traumatic stress disorder | flashbacks and avoidance of anything associated with a prior traumatic event |
| somatic symptom and related disorders | disorders of the body without any medical cause |
| illness anxiety disorder | when a person focuses on every bodily ailment thinking they are sick all the time |
| conversion disorder | someone loses physical or sensory functioning without any medical reason |
| dissociative disorders | a group of disorders in which a person views aspects of their personality as separate from themselves |
| amnesia | partial or total memory loss |
| fugue | memory loss plus active flight from the environment |
| dissociative identity disorder | when two or more independent personalities reside within the same body/person |
| affect | mood/emotion |
| depression | feeling "down", change in appetite and sleep patterns, low self esteem, low energy, etc |
| mania | extreme energy, euphoric feelings |
| bipolar disorder | known as manic depression, a person alternates between extreme moods |
| psychosexual issues | paraphillias; gender dysphoria |
| anorexia | self starvation |
| bulimia | eating disorder of the binge-purge cycle |
| psychosis | description of behaviors in which a person withdraws from reality |
| undifferentiated schizophrenia | general diagnosis: lack of contact with reality, delusions, hallucinations, flight of ideas, word salad |
| paranoid schizophrenia | delusions of grandeur, delusions of persecution, delusions of reference |
| catatonic schizophrenia | extreme withdraw, waxy flexiblity |
| disorganized schizophrenia | rare; inappropriate affect, incoherent |
| dementia | age related disorder; brain deterioration, loss of memory, slow progression |
| autism | lack of effective communication and social interaction, toe walking, pattern sameness |
| personality disorders | group of disorders in which a person's personality is deemed by society as unacceptable |
| schizoid | withdrawn, does not want to be around people, rather be alone |
| paranoid | mistrustful and suspicious of people |
| narcissistic | extreme self love, wants to be recognized and admired |
| antisocial (sociopath) | breaking of laws, rules, norms,etc with no sense of remorse or guilt |
| borderline | unstable relationships and self image; often assoc. with self mutilation |
| substance abuse | #1 mental disorder; addiction to substances |
| tic | involuntary muscle mvmt associated with anxiety |
| normal vs abnormal | standards of community behavior |
| sane vs insane | legal terms to describe mental health or mental illness |
| agoraphobia | fear of going outside |
| serotonin | neurotransmitter assoc. with depression |
| dopamine | neurotransmitter assoc. with schizophrenia |
| process vs reactive schizophrenia | chronic vs acute onset of schizophrenia |
| delusions of grandeur | thinking you are someone very important |
| delusions of persecution | thinking someone is out to get you |
| delusions of reference | thinking someone is talking about you |
| Farborow Litman study | comprehensive study on suicide suggesting people belong in one of three categories (to be, not to be, to be or not to be) |
| suicide | killing oneself; often assoc. with depression |
| diathesis stress theory | suggests mental illness is a genetic predisposition |
| physical dependence | the body becomes chemically dependent on a drug |
| psychological dependence | become emotionally dependent on a substance; feeling you can't cope without it |
| ecolalic speech | characteristic of autism in which a person repeats parts of what they hear |
| integration | goal of therapy with DID |
| lithium | drug of choice to treat bipolar disorder |
| DSM | guidebook of mental illnesses |
| double bind | being sent mixed messages about behavior and emotion, causing serious confusion |
| hallucinations | faulty senselike perceptions |
| delusions | beliefs a person has despite evidence to the contrary |
| dependent personality disorder | rely on attention and help of others |
| histrionic personality disorder | overly dramatic behavior |
| intern's syndrome | tendency for students, when learning about psychological disorders, to self-diagnose |
| flight of ideas | confused state in which thoughts and speech go in all directions with no unifying concept; ideas are often grandiose in nature |
| Rosenhan study | problem with detecting frauds from real patients |
| binge eating disorder | excessive eating in short period of time with remorse afterward |
| epigenetics | how nurture (environment) shapes the expression of genetics |
| non suicidal self injury | cutting; self mutilation |
