Psychological Diagnoses

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Malingering

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A person acts as if they have an illness (feigning, or exaggerating symptoms) for financial gain

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Enuresis

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Repeated voiding of urine into bed or clothes (involuntary or intentional)
significant distress or impairment in social, or other important areas of functioning.
2 x week for at least 3 consecutive months

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Phobia

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Irrational fear of specific objects or situations.
Most disabling: Agoraphobia - away from a safe place.
Sufferers understand that their fear is not proportional to the actual potential danger but still are overwhelmed by the fear

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Reoccurring thoughts or activities that the person cannot control.
Obsessions: distressing intrusive thoughts/images
Compulsions: actions: rituals, repetitive

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Recurrent memories or dreams of experience (flash backs),
hypervigilance, avoidant behaviors, anxiety, anger, depression.
Resulting from an extreme situation or long-term exposure to a severe stressor.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Constant, undefined anxiety.
Persons become excessively worried about an everyday problem for six months or more.
Problems making decisions / remembering commitments due to lack of concentration/preoccupation with worry

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Somatoform Disorder

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Actual physical symptoms that cannot be explained medically and persistent worry about them.

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Major Depressive Disorder =
Recurrent Depressive Disorder

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Persistent depressed mood, anhedonia, and reduced energy.
Often low self esteem, loss of interest, self-blame, sleep problems. Can also present as irritability.
Suicidal ideation

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Seasonal Affective Disorder
SAD

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Seasonal Affective Disorder.

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Bipolar Disorder

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Disruptive mood swings.
Frenzied state of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood (mania) usually alternated with symptoms of depression.
Previously known as Manic-Depressive Disorder

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Somatoform Disorders

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Actual physical symptoms that cannot be explained medically and persistent worry about them.

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Polysubstance Use or Dependence

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a person using at least three different chemical or drug substances with not one being the predominant one

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Hypochondriasis

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Preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms.

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Dissociative Disorders

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Splitting off of conscious experience, identity, or memory.

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Amnesia

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Loss of memory following stress or trauma (fugue - new identity).

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

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Two or more distinct personalities.
Response to Childhood Trauma
Host Personality and Alters

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Psychotic Disorders

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Extreme and incurable mental dysfunction.

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Schizophrenia

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Loss of contact with reality & extreme disturbances in perception, thoughts, and mood.
Hallucinations - false perceptions
Delusions - false beliefs

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

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Inattention, Hyperactivity
Impulsivity
Frequently switch from one activity to other
Difficulty focusing on one task
Not seem to listen when spoken to

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Panic Disorder

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Attacks of intense discomfort and apprehension
trembling, shaking, breathing difficulties
Worry about the attacks's potential implications
Fear of future attacks, avoidance

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Social Anxiety Disorder

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Intense fear/avoidance of public scrutiny, public embarrassment, humiliation, or social interaction.
Can be about specific social situations ( ex.public speaking) or most/all social interactions.
Blushing, sweating, and difficulty speaking

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Separation Anxiety

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Excessive anxiety over being separated from a person or place that can lead to panic.
Normal part of development in babies or children, and it is only when this feeling is excessive or inappropriate that it can be considered a disorder

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Asperger Syndrome

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An autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.
At times clumsiness and peculiar use of language

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Kleptomania

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Inability to refrain from the urge to steal items for reasons other than personal use or financial gain.
Also seen as impulse control disorder.

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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The person thinks they have a defect in either one feature or several features of their body, which causes psychological distress that causes clinically significant distress or impairs occupational or social functioning

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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An Axis II personality disorder
Switch between idealizing / devaluing others.
Chaotic relationships,
Issues with self-image, identity, and behavior
Disturbance in the individual's sense of self.

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Bulimia Nervosa

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Binge eating and purging.
Vomit, use laxatives/diuretics, excessive exercise, fasting.
Linked with impulsive behaviors (overspending/sexual behaviors) and family histories of alcohol and substance abuse and mood disorders.

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Anorexia Nervosa

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An eating disorder involving food restriction and irrational fear of gaining weight, as well as a distorted body self-perception.

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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An Axis II Personality Disorder
"...a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood".

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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An Axis II Personality Disorder
Excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity.
"What we have in common is that we both love me".
Megalomania, linked to egocentrism.

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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An Axis II Personality Disorder
Pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking. Excessive need for approval and inappropriately seductive behavior, usually beginning in early adulthood.

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Conduct Disorder

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Psychological disorder diagnosed in childhood
repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or laws and social norms and rules are violated.
Often seen in Adolescent substance use disorder.

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Dementia

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Serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal ageing.
Affected cognitive areas can be memory, attention, language, and problem solving.

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Encopresis

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Involuntary fecal soiling in children already toilet trained.
Commonly caused by constipation, by reflexive withholding of stool, by various physiological, psychological, or neurological disorders.
Can be associated with anger or depression.

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Mental Retardation

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Significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors. It has historically been defined as an Intelligence Quotient score under 70

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Paraphilia

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Sexual arousal and gratification, involving a sexual behavior that is atypical or extreme

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Reactive Attachment Disorder

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Lack of attachment
The child is avoids or doesn't respond to caregivers or is indiscriminately affectionate with strangers
A history of significant neglect;

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Tourette Syndrome

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Several physical tics and at least one vocal tic.
Tics come and go, can be suppressed temporarily, and are felt by an urge.
For one year, less than three consecutive tic-free months.

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Trichotillomania

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Recurrent pulling out of hair.
Can have increasing tension before pulling the hair and relief when pulling the hair.
Sometimes unaware.

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Selective Mutism

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A person who is normally capable of speech is unable to speak in given situations or to specific people.
Usually co-exists with shyness or social anxiety.