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Mental Disorders: a Guide to Symptoms and Treatments

This guide provides insights into common mental disorders, such as personality disorders, anxiety disorders, phobias, OCD, PTSD, eating disorders, mood disorders like bipolar and depression, and schizophrenia. Gain knowledge on symptoms, effects, and treatment options for these conditions.

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Mental Disorders: a Guide to Symptoms and Treatments

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  1. Mental Disorders An illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person. It can prevent them from leading a healthy life.

  2. Personality Disorders • Personality Party Activity Paranoid Schizoid Sociopath Borderline Schizotypal Histrionic Narcissistic Compulsive Passive-Aggressive

  3. Anxiety Disorder • A condition in which real or imagined fears are difficult to control.

  4. Examples of Anxiety Disorders • Phobia • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder • Panic Disorder • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • Generalized Anxiety Disorder

  5. Phobia- • a strong irrational fear of something specific. • Arachnophobia-fear of spiders • Claustrophobia-fear of being closed in • Disposophobia-fear of getting rid of things • Aka: hoarding

  6. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder- • persistent thoughts, fears, or urges that lead you to engage in repetitive behaviors.

  7. Panic Disorder • Caused by episodes of irrational fear and panic called “panic attacks.”

  8. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder • A condition that may develop after exposure to a terrifying event. • Symptoms include: flashbacks, nightmares, sleeplessness.

  9. General Anxiety • Chronic and exaggerated worry and tension even though nothing seems to provoke it; always anticipating disaster; excessive worry about health, money, family, or work.

  10. Eating Disorders • Bulimia • People with bulimia consume large amounts of food and then rid their bodies of the excess calories by purging (self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives or diuretics).

  11. Eating Disorders • Anorexia • People have a distorted sense of body image that leads to self-starvation to the point of death.

  12. Mood Disorders • An illness that involves mood extremes that interfere with everyday living. • Bipolar (manic-depressive)- involves cycles of alternating mania and depressive symptoms.

  13. Mood Disorders • Depression-when symptoms of mild depression persist to clinical depression

  14. Schizophrenia • A chronic, severe, disabling brain disorder; people hear things other people don’t hear, think people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts. People are fearful, withdrawn, and can be extremely agitated.

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