Phobias & Disorders

• Agoraphobia: The anxiety that occurs when one is in a public or crowded place, from which a potential escape is difficult, or help may not be readily available
• Anti-Social Personality Disorder: Manipulative, deceitful and reckless and do not care for other people's feelings
• Anxiety Disorder: Execssive worry that interferes with daily activities

  • Restlessness
  • Feeling on edge
  • Difficulty concentrating
  • Muscle tension
• Attention-Defecit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Ongoing pattern of inattention or hyperactivity that interferes with functioning or development
• Atrributional Style: Our tendency as people to offer similar explanations for different events
• Bipolar Disorder: Causes unusual shifts in mood, extreme high and lows

  • Ex. Overacitivty with a depressed mood
• Borderline Personality Disorder: Severely impacts a person's ability to regulate their emotions, causing unstable relationships with everyone they care about

  • Ex. MY MOTHER
• Compulsions: Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person feels driven to perform in response to obsession
• Delusions: False beliefs that indicate abnormality in the person's thoughts

  • Ex. Me when I have a crush
• Delusions of Grandeur: A person's belief that they are someone other than who they are, such as a supernatural figure or a celebrity

  • Ex. Someone who believes they are wonderful and successful and more important than others depite having lack of evidence
• Delusions of Persecution: When you're convinced that someone is mistreating, conspiring against, or planning to harm you or your loved one
• Dissociative Disorders: Mental health conditions that involve experiencing a loss of connection between thoughts, memories, feelings, surrondings, behavior and identity
• Dissociative Fugue: Temporary state where a person has memory loss and ends up in an unexpected place
• Dissociative Identity Disorder: Someone with various personalities and control the person's behavior at different times
• Flat Affect: Severely restricted or nonexistent expression of emotion

  • Can be seen with autism, PTSD, and schizophrenia
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (MEEEEE): Execessive worry about everday issues and situations
• Hallucinations: False perception of objects or events involving senses
• Hsitronic Personality Disorder: A pattern of exaggerated emotionality and attention—seeking behaviors

  • Categorized within "Cluster B" of personality disorders
• Illness Anxiety Disorder: Excessive worry about having or developing a serious undiagnosed medical condition
• Insanity: Caused by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns, violations of societal norms
• Major Depressive Disorder: Causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest

  • Basically just becoming a ghost
• Mania: Condition where your abnormally elevated, extreme changes in your mood or emotions, energy level or activity level

  • Cannot eat or sleep
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder: When people have an elevated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and lack of empathy for others
• Neurocognitive Disorders: Caused by brain dysfunction that affects thinking processes, memory consciousness and perception

  • Ex. Alzheimer's Disease
• Neurodevelopment Disorders: A disorder with onset during the developmental period that impairs intelligence and functioning skills
• Neurotic Disorder: Class of functional mental disorder involving distress but not delusions or hallucinations

  • Ex. Depression and anxiety
• Noncompliance: Patient who intentionally refuses to take a prescribed medication
• Obsessions: Repeated thoughts and urges that make people anxious
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (MEEEE): Long-lasting disorder in which a person experiences uncontrollable and recurring thoughts that engages them into repetitive behaviors
• Panic Disorder: An anxiety disorder characterized by unecpected and repeated episodes of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms
• Personality Disorder: Where people have lifelong pattern of seeing themselves and reacting to others in ways that cause problems
• PTSD: Develops when a person has experienced or witnessed a scary, shocking, terrifying, or dangerous event

  • Reliving the event through flashbacks and nightmares
• Psychotic Disorders: Psychosis is the collection of symptoms that cause to lose touch with reality
• Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder: Seeing and hearing things or people that aren't really there
• Seasonal Affective Disorder: IT'S LITERALLY JUST SEASONAL DEPRESSION

  • DAYLIGHT = GOOD
  • NIGHTTIME = BAD
• Social Anxiety: An intense, persistent fear of being watched and judged by others
• Somatic Symptom Disorder: When a person has a significant focus on physical symptoms that results in major distress and problems functioning
• Somatoform Disorder: Causes an individual to experience physical bodily symptoms in response to psychological distress
• Specific Phobia: Irrational fear of soemthing that poses no actual danger
• Systematic Desensitization: Identifying anxiety produced stimuli and learning how to cope