Question | Answer |
Bulimia Nervos | Eating disorder with binge eating followed by vomiting, purging, and depression.Bulimia Nervos |
Dementia | Loss of intellectual ablilities with impairment of memory, judgment, resoning, and personality changes. |
Mania | Extreme excitement, hyperactive, over talkative. |
Anorexia Nervosa | Eating disorder with excessive dieting, and refusal to maintian a normal body weight. |
Amnesia. | Loss of memory. |
Anxiety Disorders. | Characterized by unpleasent tension, distress, and avoidance behavior; examples are painc disorders, phobias, OCD, PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder. |
Phobia. | Irrational or disabling fear (avoidance) of an object or situation. |
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). | Electric current used to produce changes in brain wave patterns resulting in seizures and convulsions. Effective treatment for depression and schizophrenia. |
Post-traumaic stress disorder. | Anxiety related syptoms appear after personal experience of a traumatic event. |
Paranoia. | Overly suspicious system of thinking; example: The government is out to get me. |
Apathy. | Absence of emotions; lack of interest or emotional involvement. |
Affect. | External expression of emotion, or emotional response. |
Dissociative disorder | Another term for Mulipe Personalities. |
Mutism. | Inability to speak. |
Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. | Anxiety disorder in which recurrent thoughts and repetitive acts such as washing hands many times, or locking and re-locking the door. |
Schizophrenia. | Chronic phychotc disorder that may include hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior. |
Sexual disorder. | Paraphilias and sexual dysfunction. |
Substance related disorder. | Regular overuse of psychoactive substances (alcohol, amphetanines, cannabis, cocaine, and sedatives) that affect the central nervous system. |
Play therapy. | Treatment in which a child, through the use of toys expresses conflicts and feelings unable to be communicated in a direct manner. |
Depression. | Major mood disorder with chronic sadness, loss of energy, hopelessness, suicidal impulses and thoughts. |