Abnormal Behavior

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4 Criteria for determining a psychological disorder

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1. Maladaptive-behavior that interferes with you daily life

2. Atypical-not typical behavior

3. Disturbing-creepy, uncommon

4. Irrational/Unjustifiable-fear, phobia

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System used by clinicians in diagnosing various psychological disorders

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DSM

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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continuously tense, apprehensive, aroused.

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Phobia

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persistent, irrational fear of an object or situation

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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characterized by repetitive, unwanted thoughts and actions

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Panic Disorder

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physiological response to stress in environment, feelings of dread

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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relive traumatic experiences-dreams, relive

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Dissociative Amnesia

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selective memory loss due to extreme stress, doesn't want to remember

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Dissociative Fugue

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person flees from home and identity, starts new life, unconscious, accompanied by amnesia

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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multiple personality disorder, one or more alternating personalities

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Major Depressive Disorder

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common cold of disorders, clinical. No reason - 2 or more weeks of depressed moods- worthlessness, no interest or pleasure in things they like

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Mania

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happy all the time, bad decisions, highly optomistic

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Bipolar Disorder

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rapid mood changes, mania one minute, depressed the next

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Paranoid Schizophrenic

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most common, think people are after them, delusions, hallucinations

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Disorganized Schizophrenic

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disorganized speech or behavior or flat/inappropriate emotion

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Catatonic Schizophrenic

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immobility of the body, statue like state, negative about everything

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Undifferentiated Schizophrenic

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symptoms of other schizophrenic, not clear

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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exhibits a lack of conscious

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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person who has constant need for reassurance and attention and will act out

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Narcissist Personality Disorder

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person feels that they are better than everyone else

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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a person experiences unstable way of thinking and sense of identity

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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someone believes without evidence that others are exploiting, harming, and deceiving them

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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person shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flat affect. Don't like to be around other people, no relationships

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Schizotypical Personality Disorder

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odd, peculiar, eccentric behavior

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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person views themselves as socially inept, personaly unappealing, and inferior to others

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Dependent Personality Disorder

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difficulty making everyday decisions without excess advice and reassurance from others

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Insanity

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the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness

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Hallucinations

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an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present

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Delusions

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an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder

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Affect

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have an effect on; make a difference to; emotion

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Neurosis

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a relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality

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Psychosis

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a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality

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Seasonal Affective Disorder

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depression associated with late autumn and winter and thought to be caused by a lack of light

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Conversion Disorder

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causes patients to suffer from neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits without a definable organic cause. It is thought that symptoms arise in response to stressful situations affecting a patient's mental health

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Anorexia

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an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat

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Bulimia

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an emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting