The information and definitions below are intended to make our community more aware of the different disorders, illnesses, and symptoms. It is also here to inform you of some basic definitions of psychological terminology that you may come across when seeking or participating in psychotherapy.
Psychiatric Disorders | Neurological Disorders | Learning and Developmental Disorders
Psychological disorders characterized by negative mood, elevated anxiety, poor sleep that effect daily functioning.
An anxiety disorder characterized by diffuse, unspecific and excessive worries and anxieties that occur over a period of six months or more, unrelated to actual threats or dangers.
An anxiety disorder characterized by debilitating anxiety and fear often resulting in physical symptoms that occur without reasonable cause, or disproportionately to stimulus.
An anxiety disorder characterized by unreasonable and irrational fear of specific object or objects, which results in avoidance of such objects and severe reactions. See List Of Phobias Here
An anxiety disorder characterized by intolerable anxiety in everyday social situations that often results in avoidance or severe symptomology
an anxiety disorder that occurs in response to a traumatic event, and is often accompanied by flashbacks, avoidance, disassociation numbing and hyperarousal
A disorder characterized by repeated thoughts, actions and routines that need to be enacted repeatedly in order to ward off extreme anxieties
An acute mood disorder characterized by consistent and persistent low mood, loss of interests and pleasures and self-esteem that significantly effects daily life for a period of six months or more
A mood disorder characterized by consistent low mood similar to depression, but less severe in symptomology, that persists for 2 years or more
A mood disorder characterized by vacillations between highly elevated and severe depressed mood
A mood disorder characterized by vacillations between slightly elevated (hypomanic) and severe depressed mood
period of hypomania with brief period of depression, which are neither as severe nor as persistent as in major Depression
an extremely rare disorder where one individual has two or more consistent and lasting personalities, formally known as Multiple Personality Disorder
persistent obsession or delusion with a perceived flaw of the body that is severely exaggerated and results in behavior change, or efforts to change or hide the body
characterized by the dependence on alcohol and/or drugs, often with cravings, compulsive behaviors and withdrawal symptoms
characterized by misperceptions of reality that could include delusions, hallucinations, and severe disordered thinking and behavior
Chronic, inflexible and maladaptive patterns of perception cognition and behavior that exist across situations and over time
characterized by persistent disregard or violation of the rights of others
characterized by difficulty in interpersonal relations and emotional regulation related to fears of abandonment, anger and irritability
characterized by attention-seeking or seductive, emotional behaviors
characterized by excessive preoccupation with the self, power, vanity, or status
characterized by pervasive social inhibition, low self-esteem, sensitivity to criticism and avoidance or social interactions
characterized by persistent dependence on others to meet emotional and physical needs
characterized by general preoccupation with perfection, order and control
characterized by persistent and irrational paranoia, suspiciousness and general mistrust
characterized by disinterest, avoidance and detachment from social relationships and emotional interaction
characterized by extreme discomfort in social interactions, and disrupted or disordered perceptions
characterized by a feelings that ones emotional and psychological gender is different from their physical and biological sex. This is no longer classified as a disorder in the DSM-5.
deficit in memory caused by brain trauma, disease or psychological trauma
deficit in language caused by brain trauma or disease
deficit in speech caused by brain trauma or disease
deficit in movement ability caused by brain trauma or disease
deficit in identifying things and people caused by brain trauma of disease
injury to the brain caused by external force that often results in mild to severe deficits in functioning
a chronic neurodegenerative disorder mainly affecting motor systems but often includes depression, related to dopamine generation
a chronic neurodegenerative disorder mainly effecting short-term memory and often includes difficulties with language, disorientation, mood swings, motivation and self-care
the gradual decrease in the ability to think, remember and function typically involving language and motivation
characterized by unpredictable and/or undetectable period of intense and severe shaking of the body
characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication and repetitive or rigid behaviors
characterized by difficulty reading and/or writing despite average intelligence
deficit in ability to understand numbers or learn math facts
deficit in reading fluency and/or comprehension, recall, writing, spelling or decoding
deficits in ability to control muscles, which results in movement and coordination difficulties that can affect learning
difficulty in recognizing subtly differences between sounds in words, not related to hearing ability but to the brains’ interpretation of sounds
deficit in ability to attach meaning to sounds, words sentences or stories
characterized by discrepancy between verbal skills and visual-spatial, social or motor skills
deficits in the ability to understand visual information
characterized by difficulty focusing, attending and controlling impulsivity
deficits in the ability to plan, organize, strategize and attend
deficits in one of the three major memory areas, working memory, short-term memory or long-term memory
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