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Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR)
Psychiatric Disorders – DSM-5-TR Generalized Anxiety Disorder Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or GAD, involves excessive anxiety and worry about a number of events or activities that is out of proportion to the situation. The worry and worrisome thoughts are difficult …Read More July 21, 2022 / Anxiety, Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology, DSM-5-TR Posttraumatic Stress Disorder The…
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Teens With Anxiety Disorders Tell Their Life Stories Differently
Our mental health is often tied up in how we see the relationship between the past, present and future. For that reason, how we tell our life stories can say something about our psychological state. A couple years ago, for example, I wrote about how people who draw more connections between different phases of their…
Read MoreDoes OCD Predict Other Disorders?
We often think of different mental health conditions as totally independent from each other. Depression is separate from anxiety is separate from bipolar disorder, and so on: they have different names, different symptoms and different treatments. In reality, though, distinct psychiatric disorders seem to be related to some extent. For one thing, different conditions can…
Read MoreDo Different Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Genes?
It’s easy to think of psychiatric disorders as categories with distinct boundaries. Schizophrenia is separate from depression, which is different than anxiety. At a genetic level, though, it’s not at all clear that this is the case. We know that most mental health conditions have a significant genetic component. If you have a family history…
Read MoreWhen Do Anxiety Disorders Begin?
Although everyone feels nervous at times, for some people anxiety spreads through their lives and starts causing them real problems. According to one study with over nine thousand participants, about 18 percent of people in the United States will struggle with an anxiety disorder in a given year. Anxiety disorders can range from social phobia…
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The Role of the Media in Body Image & Eating Disorders
Most likely, we have all known someone who suffered from some form of eating disorder. According to the National Eating Disorder Association 20 million women and 10 million men in the US suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder at some time in their life – that’s approaching 10% – and four out of 10…
Read MoreAlphabetical Index of Disorders
Acute Stress Disorder Agoraphobia Amnesia, Dissociative Anorexia Nervosa Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Bipolar Disorder Body Dysmorphic Disorder Brief Psychotic Disorder Bulimia Nervosa Conversion Disorder Cyclothymic Disorder Delusional Disorder Depersonalization Disorder Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Dyspareunia Dysthymic Disorder Erectile Disorder, Male Exhibitionism Fetishism Frotteurism Fugue, Dissociative Gambling, Pathological Gender Identity Disorder Generalized Anxiety Disorder Hypoactive…
Read MoreChapter 12.2: Personality Disorders
Maladaptive Patterns of Interacting Personality Disorders are characterized by an enduring pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving which is significantly different from the person’s culture and results in negative consequences. This pattern must be longstanding and inflexible for a diagnosis to be made. There are ten types of personality disorders, all of which result in…
Read MoreChapter 12: Disorders, Applications & Trends
Section 1: Changing Personality Assessing the Power of Change While all of the personality theories discussed in this text have focused at least some of their attention on understanding personality and identifying aspects of personality, most are also concerned with the application of theory in order to facilitate personality change. The exceptions to this include…
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Chapter 9.2: Psychiatric Disorders
PSYCHOLOGY 1019.2 Psychiatric Disorders Psychology 101 Contents1: How to Learn Psychology – 1.1: Influence of Research on Psychology – 1.2: Experimental Research – 1.3: Types of Research 2: Biopsychology – 2.1: Neurotransmitters – 2.2: The Brain & Nervous System 3: Intro to Development, Personality & Stage Theories – 3.1: Motor & Cognitive Development – 3.2:…
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