Psychological Disorders
A mental disorder or psychiatric disorder is a mental or behavioral pattern or anomaly that causes distress or disability, and which is not developmentally or socially normative. Mental disorders are generally defined by a combination of how a person feels, acts, thinks or perceives.Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorder is a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom. Generalized anxiety disorder Agoraphobia Social anxiety disorder Phobias Panic disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder Separation anxiety.
Acute Stress Disorder:
Acute stress Disorder is a psychological condition arising in response to a terrifying or traumatic event. It should not be confused with the unrelated circulatory condition of shock, or the concept of shock value.
Panic Disorder:
Panic Disorder is a psychiatric disorder in which debilitating anxiety and fear arise frequently and without reasonable cause.
Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder:
Agoraphobia without a history of panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme fear of experiencing panic symptoms, of panic attacks. Agoraphobia typically develops as a result of having panic disorder.
Social Phobia:
Social Phobia is any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with situations in which you are subject to criticism by others as fear of eating in public or public speaking etc.
Specific Phobia: (formerly Simple Phobia)
Specific Phobia is a generic term for any kind of anxiety disorder that amounts to an unreasonable or irrational fear related to exposure to specific objects or situations.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry; by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety; or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock, typically involving disturbance of sleep and constant vivid recall of the experience, with dulled responses to others and to the outside world.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
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Childhood Disorders
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder:
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a problem of not being able to focus, being overactive, not being able control behavior, or a combination of these. For these problems to be diagnosed as ADHD, they must be out of the normal range for a person's age and development.
Asperger's Disorder:
Asperger's Disorder is often considered a high functioning form of autism. It can lead to difficulty interacting socially, repeat behaviors, and clumsiness.
Autistic Disorder:
Autistic Disorder or Autism is a developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of life, and affects the brain's normal development of social and communication skills.
Conduct Disorder:
Conduct Disorder is a set of ongoing emotional and behavioral problems that occurs in children and teens. Problems may involve defiant or impulsive behavior, drug use, or criminal activity.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder:
Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures.
Separation Anxiety Disorder:
Separation Anxiety Disorder is a psychological condition in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment.
Tourette's Disorder:
Tourette's Disorder Gilles de la Tourette syndrome is a condition that causes a person to make repeated, quick movements or sounds that they cannot control. These movements or sounds are called tics. The condition is commonly called Tourette syndrome.
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Cognitive Disorders (Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic Disorders)
Cognitive disorders are a category of mental health disorders that primarily affect learning, memory, perception, and problem solving.
Delirium:
Delirium is sudden severe confusion and rapid changes in brain function that occur with physical or mental illness.
Multi-Infarct Dementia:
Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is a form of dementia caused by a series of small strokes. Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior.
Dementia Associated With Alcoholism:
Dementia Associated With Alcoholism Alcohol dementia is a form of dementia caused by long-term, excessive drinking, resulting in neurological damage and impaired mental processing.
Dementia:
Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior.
Dissociative Disorder:
A Dissociative Disorder is a "dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down". Dissociative disorder formerly known as multiple personality disorder Dissociative fugue Dissociative identity disorder Depersonalization/derealization disorder.
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Eating Disorders
What is a Eating Disorder? A Eating Disorder is any of a range of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits (such as anorexia nervosa). Anorexia nervosa Bulimia nervosa Rumination disorder.
Anorexia Nervosa:
Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that makes people lose more weight than is considered healthy for their age and height. Persons with this disorder may have an intense fear of weight gain, even when they are underweight. They may diet or exercise too much or use other ways to lose weight.
Bulimia Nervosa:
Bulimia Nervosa is an illness in which a person binges on food or has regular episodes of overeating and feels a loss of control. The person then uses different methods such as vomiting or abusing laxatives to prevent weight gain. Many (but not all) people with bulimia also have anorexia nervosa.
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Factitious Disorders
What is Factitious Disorder? A factitious disorder is a condition in which a person acts as if they have an illness by deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms. Factitious disorder by proxy is a condition in which a person deliberately produces, feigns, or exaggerates symptoms. Munchausen syndrome Munchausen syndrome by proxy Ganser syndrome.
Impulse-Control Disorders
Define: Impulse-Control Disorder. Impulse control disorder or ICD is a class of psychiatric disorders characterized by impulsivity – failure to resist a temptation, urge or impulse that may harm oneself or others. Kleptomania (stealing) Pyromania (fire-starting) Trichotillomania (hair-pulling) Pathological gambling Intermittent explosive disorder Dermatillomania skin-picking.
Mental Disorders From A Medical Condition
Psychotic disorder due to epilepsy Depression caused by diabetes AIDS related psychosis Personality changes due to brain damage
Neurocognitive Disorders
A neurocognitive Disorder is a reduction or impairment of cognitive function. Alzheimer's disease Delirium Dementia Amnesia.
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Mood Disorders
What is a Mood Disorder? It is a psychological disorder characterized by the elevation or lowering of a person's mood, such as depression or bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder Major depressive disorder Cyclothymic disorder.
Major Depressive Disorder:
Major Depressive Disorder or True clinical depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for weeks or longer.
(Manic Depression) Bipolar Disorder:
(Manic Depression) Bipolar Disorder is a condition in which a person has periods of depression and periods of being extremely happy or being cross or irritable.
Cyclothymic Disorder:
Cyclothymic Disorder cyclothymia a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time
Dysthymic Disorder:
Dysthymia is a chronic type of depression in which a person's moods are regularly low. However, symptoms are not as severe as with major depression.
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Neurodevelopmental disorders are impairments of the growth and development of the brain or central nervous system. Intellectual Disability formerly referred to as mental retardation Learning disabilities Communication disorders Autism Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder Conduct disorder Oppositional defiant disorder.
Schizophrenia And Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia:
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it hard to: Tell the difference between what is real and not real; Think clearly; Have normal emotional responses; Act normally in social situations.
Delusional Disorder:
Delusional Disorder is any mental disorder in which delusions play a significant role.
Brief Psychotic Disorder:
Brief Psychotic Disorder is a period of psychosis whose duration is generally shorter, non re-occurring, and not caused by another condition.
Schizophreniform Disorder:
Schizophreniform disorder is a mental disorder diagnosed when symptoms of schizophrenia are present for a significant portion of the time within a one-month period, but signs of disruption are not present for the full six months required for the diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Schizoaffective Disorder:
Schizoaffective disorder is a mental disorder characterized by disordered thought processes and abnormal emotional responses. Common symptoms of psychosis include auditory hallucinations, paranoid delusions, and disorganized speech and thinking.
Shared Psychotic Disorder:
Shared Psychotic Disorder is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another.
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Substance-Related Disorders
Alcohol Dependence:
Alcoholism and alcohol abuse are two different forms of problem drinking.
Alcoholism is when you have signs of physical addiction to alcohol and continues to drink, despite problems with physical health, mental health, and social, family, or job responsibilities. Alcohol may control your life and relationships.
Alcohol abuse is when your drinking leads to problems, but not physical addiction.
Amphetamine Dependence:
Amphetamine dependence refers to a state of dependence on a drug in the amphetamine class.
Cannabis Dependence:
Cannabis dependence is a condition defined in DSM-IV applying the general concept of substance dependence to cannabis.
Cocaine Dependence:
Cocaine dependence or addiction is a psychological desire to use cocaine regularly.
Hallucinogen Dependence:
Hallucinogen Dependence defined: Hallucinogens are a large and varied group of drugs that alter a person's perception, consciousness, mood and thinking.
Inhalant Dependence:
Inhalant use disorder takes the place of two DSM IV conditions known as inhalant abuse and inhalant dependence.
Nicotine Dependence:
Nicotine dependence is an addiction to tobacco products caused by one of its ingredients the drug nicotine.
Opioid Dependence:
Opioid dependence is a medical diagnosis characterized by an individual's inability to stop using opiates (morphine, heroin, codeine, oxycodone, hydrocodone.
Phencyclidine Dependence:
Phencyclidine, more commonly known as PCP, was originally developed in the 1950s as an intravenous anesthetic.
Sedative Dependence:
Sedative Dependence is a Dependence Syndrome Due To Use Of Sedatives Or Hypnotics.