<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>
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