ID

Disorder

Description

A

Generalized Anxiety

Disorder

Excessive worrying, but not about anything in particular, accompanied by at least three of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, concentration problems, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbances.

B

Phobic Disorder

Marked, irrational and persistent and excessive fear of a specific object or situation, which causes excessive steps to avoid that feared object or situation.

C

Panic Disorder

Sudden onset of psychological and physiological symptoms that contribute to a feeling of terror. Often seek medical treatment believing something is wrong.

D

Obsessive-Compulsive

Disorder

Intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and ritualized behaviors (compulsions), which are designed to fend of those thoughts, interfere with an individual’s ability to function normally.

E

Dissociative Fugue

Due to some traumatic event, individual experiences sudden memory loss of personal history and identify.

F

Dissociative Amnesia

Due to some traumatic event, individual experiences sudden memory loss of events related to their life, usually surrounding the traumatic event. Identity is retained.

G

Depressive Disorder

Severely depressed emotional mood lasting 2+ weeks, characterized by feeling worthless, lack of interest and motivation, lack of pleasure, lethargy, and disturbances of sleep and eating.

H

Bipolar Disorder

Highly unstable emotional condition in which an individual shifts back and forth between a low, depressed mood and a high, manic mood.

I

Schizophrenia

Profound disruption of thought, mood, behavior, speech and perception of reality. Can be characterized by delusion, hallucinations, catatonia, and blunted affect.

J

Antisocial Personality

Disorder

Impoverished moral sense. History of deceiving others, criminal activity, violent and aggressive behavior, impulsiveness. Little empathy or remorse for others. High-risk taking.

K

Histrionic Personality

Disorder

Attention-seeking, highly emotional, lively, overly dramatic, excessively flirtatious. Believes that everyone loves them, so uses grandiose language, dresses provocatively, and exaggerates illness and achievements to gain attention.

L

Avoidant Personality

Disorder

Socially uncomfortable unless they are confident they are liked by others, but they actually desire social contact. Fear of rejection keeps individuals out of social situations.

Diagnosis

Description of Person

Jake is very risk-taking. When he was 19, he wanted beer but had no money so he robbed a store. In the process, he punched a female clerk who tried to stop him. He was quickly caught, and at his arraignment he displayed no emotional sympathy for the woman and did not think he had done anything wrong.

Maggie thinks about germs and diseases a lot, after her father had e coli poisoning. She washes her hands 100 times per day, washes her hair 20 times per day, and changes her clothes several times, to avoid germs.

After his Humvee was struck by a roadside bomb in Iraq, Sgt. Slaughter had memory loss for the incident, even though he did not receive a head injury or ever lose consciousness.

Kate is frequency worried that the “terrorists” George Bush talks about are going to attack. These keeps Kate up at night, tossing and turning in bed, causing her to be late to work and sluggish in her duties. She constantly she fidgets while watching the news and paces around thinking of ways she can protect herself.

After the recent breakup with her boyfriend, Jane has been withdrawn from her friends and family. She used to play the guitar but has not picked it up in over a month.

Bruce tries to avoid handshakes at all costs because of his fear that someone will be holding a “joy-buzzer”. He goes to such lengths that he will “bow” to an acquaintance (as Asia males do) or ask for a “high five”.

John thinks other people are out to get him. He says voices sent to him through radio waves tell him to run and other voices tell him that “they” are on to him. John is often heard speaking in gibberish (“in tongues”), which he says is encrypted code that only he, and not “they”, can understand.

Brit is very pleasure-seeking and also very promiscuous and dresses “slutty”. She needs to be around other people to feel happy and believes that wherever she goes she is the center of attention and everyone adores her.

“Bart” showed up in Chicago one month ago, confused with no recollection of his past or who he was. His friend Ernie saw “Bart”, whose real name was Bert, on TV and called the police. Bert had been mugged at knifepoint in his hometown by a snuffleupagus from the lower-east Sesame Street gang.

Stan is hard to predict. Some days he comes to class and you can tell that he is depressed, moody and just out of it by his sloppy appearance. Other days, he is talkative, alert and can become agitated when you tell him that his answer to a question was wrong.

Henry has no girlfriend, few friends and stays home every night listening to Ronnie James Dio. He wants to meet and talk with other people. It’s not that he’s shy, it’s that he is afraid of other people not liking him; hence, he just decides to avoid other people and hope that they come to him and like him.

Jack’s parents were murdered in their house by unknown burglars as they slept. Now, in his 30’s, Jack is always worried that he may be next and he is unsafe. In order to reduce his anxiety, he gets up at least 25 times per night to check each of his doors and windows to make sure each is locked.

Mindy was sexually assaulted in college, but she has no memory of her attacker’s face, or where they were, and the only evidence of the attack came because police found her shivering, partially clothed, outside of her dorm.

Daryl becomes alarmed when his heart palpitates, because his father died of a heart attack. Any time he detects a palpitation or a tightening in his chest, he becomes upset and sometimes will go to his doctor to get checked out.

Chris has difficulty thinking straight and often makes improper statements and does improper things. He once laughed at his brother’s funeral, but seemed to have no emotion for it. He is constantly confused and cannot keep one line of thought going for more than one sentence.

Brett got into a minor car accident with a female college student. He screamed at her, even though it was his fault. When she threatened to call police he sweet-talked he into dinner, after which he sweet-talked her into sex. After that night he never spoke to her, gave her a fake address and phone number, without ever thinking twice.

Dick Cheney is intensely afraid of birds, so much so that he accidentally shot an old man in the face who he had mistaken for a bird. Cheney will not even go to a sporting event if a team’s mascot is a bird.

Many teenagers feel the whole world is watching them and that they are the actors to an “imaginary audience”. Indeed, many teens are risk-taking and crave the attention of others and often dress in a way to grab attention (like the Goth kids on South Park). Based on this, one may think that all teens suffer from....

Chuck has had a loss of appetite and lack of sleep for the past several months. He cannot put his finger on the answer, but he does not feel “right” lately, which causes him to avoid the things he used to enjoy.

Geraldine is constantly tensing up and feeling “on edge”. She has a stable income, a good apartment, and a good boyfriend; but she cannot go to sleep without worrying that she will not take up tomorrow.