The Disorder Someone May Be Experiencing If He Or She Feels As Though Someone Is Watching Them

The Disorder Someone May Be Experiencing If He Or She Feels As Though Someone Is Watching Them

<p>The disorder someone may be experiencing if he or she feels as though someone is watching them.</p><p>Answer: Schizophrenia</p><p>False beliefs maintained in the face of contrary evidence are called ______.</p><p>Answer: delusions</p><p>A person with a bipolar disorder experiences alternating periods of:</p><p>Answer: frantic action and deep despair</p><p>Sigmund Freud referred to it as hysteria.</p><p>Answer: somatoform disorder</p><p>A ______is characterized by a fear of a particular object or situation.</p><p>Answer: phobia</p><p>What is it called when someone thinks of him/herself is God, a deity, a savior, or better than the rest of society?</p><p>Answer: feelings of grandeur</p><p>DSM-IV uses five major dimensions, or ______, to evaluate individuals.</p><p>Answer: axes</p><p>Someone with ______may have hallucinations and/or delusions. Answer: schizophrenia</p><p>When a person feels very anxious and cannot stop thinking about something even though it is unpleasant, he or she suffers from (what they are doing)</p><p>Answer: An obsession</p><p>A person who exhibits more than one personality state, each with its own behavior and thinking patters, most likely has ______.</p><p>Answer: Dissociative Identity Disorder</p><p>What is used when diagnosing an individual with a mental disorder?</p><p>Answer: DSM-IV</p><p>Abnormality is defined as deviating from normality. Why can’t this be the only criteria used to diagnose someone with a mental disorder?</p><p>Answer: This assumes that what most people do is normal</p><p>A person characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions and lack of consciousness most likely has a(n) ______personality.</p><p>Answer: antisocial</p><p>What disorder has both a manic and depressive phase?</p><p>Answer: bipolar</p><p>Most people deal with a(n) ______by avoiding what frightens them.</p><p>Answer: phobia</p><p>Who believes that most people whom we label mentally ill are not ill at all Answer: Thomas Szasaz</p><p>Transforming emotional difficulties into the loss of a physiological function is known as ______.</p><p>Answer: conversion</p><p>During a(n) ______, a person experiences shortness of breath, chocking sensation, and increased heart rate with no explainable cause.</p><p>Answer: panic attack</p><p>A person suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder re-experiences a catastrophe in the form of ______or nightmares.</p><p>Answer: flashbacks</p><p>Veterans of wars, survivors of natural disasters, and survivors of human aggression often experience ______.</p><p>Answer: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder</p><p>An extreme fear of being in a public place is called ______.</p><p>Answer: agoraphobia</p><p>What happens during a dissociative reaction?</p><p>Answer: a person loses identity or memory</p><p>Brain imaging techniques have sown that the brains of people who have schizophrenia often show signs of ______.</p><p>Answer: deteriorated brain tissue</p><p>What combines amnesia and active flight? Answer: dissociative fugue</p><p>What is it called when a person gets a physical adaptation to a drug, making it no longer work?</p><p>Answer: tolerance</p><p>What is someone called if they constantly believe they have imaginary ailments?</p><p>Answer: hypochondriac</p><p>What does a person have if they are motionless for long periods of time in an unusual position?</p><p>Answer: catatonic-type schizophrenia</p><p>Doctors may prescribe ______for alcoholics, which makes them violently ill if they drink alcohol.</p><p>Answer: Antabuse</p><p>What is it called when someone has a calm acceptance of a loss of physical functioning?</p><p>Answer: la belle indifference</p>

View Full Text

Details

  • File Type
    pdf
  • Upload Time
    -
  • Content Languages
    English
  • Upload User
    Anonymous/Not logged-in
  • File Pages
    4 Page
  • File Size
    -

Download

Channel Download Status
Express Download Enable

Copyright

We respect the copyrights and intellectual property rights of all users. All uploaded documents are either original works of the uploader or authorized works of the rightful owners.

  • Not to be reproduced or distributed without explicit permission.
  • Not used for commercial purposes outside of approved use cases.
  • Not used to infringe on the rights of the original creators.
  • If you believe any content infringes your copyright, please contact us immediately.

Support

For help with questions, suggestions, or problems, please contact us