2017-07-29T11:26:18+03:00[Europe/Moscow] en true Hysteria, Combat stress reaction, Adjustment disorder, Hypochondriasis, Neurosis, Psychogenic amnesia, Dissociative identity disorder, Depersonalization disorder, Animal hoarding, Anxiety disorder, Agoraphobia, Acrophobia, Dissociative disorder, Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Fugue state, Anthropophobia, Generalized anxiety disorder, Neurasthenia, Panic disorder, Ganser syndrome, Dhat syndrome, Psychasthenia, Acute stress reaction flashcards
Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders

Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders

  • Hysteria
    Hysteria, in the colloquial use of the term, means ungovernable emotional excess.
  • Combat stress reaction
    Combat stress reaction (CSR) is a term used within the military to describe acute behavioral disorganization seen by medical personnel as a direct result of the trauma of war.
  • Adjustment disorder
    An adjustment disorder (AD) — sometimes called exogenous, or reactive, or situational depression — occurs when an individual is unable to adjust to or cope with a particular stress or a major life event.
  • Hypochondriasis
    Hypochondriasis, also known as hypochondria, health anxiety or illness anxiety disorder, refers to worry about having a serious illness.
  • Neurosis
    Neurosis is a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations.
  • Psychogenic amnesia
    Psychogenic amnesia, or dissociative amnesia, is a memory disorder characterized by sudden retrograde autobiographical memory loss, said to occur for a period of time ranging from hours to years.
  • Dissociative identity disorder
    Dissociative identity disorder (DID), previously known as multiple personality disorder (MPD), is a mental disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring identities or dissociated personality states that alternately show in a person's behavior, accompanied by memory impairment for important information not explained by ordinary forgetfulness.
  • Depersonalization disorder
    Depersonalization disorder (DPD), also known as depersonalization-derealization syndrome, is a mental disorder in which the person has persistent or recurrent feelings of depersonalization and/or derealization.
  • Animal hoarding
    Animal hoarding is keeping a higher-than-usual number of animals as domestic pets without ability to properly house or care for them, while at the same time denying this inability.
  • Anxiety disorder
    Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by feelings of anxiety and fear.
  • Agoraphobia
    Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where the person perceives the environment to be unsafe with no easy way to get away.
  • Acrophobia
    Acrophobia (from the Greek: ἄκρον, ákron , meaning "peak, summit, edge" and φόβος, phóbos, "fear") is an extreme or irrational fear or phobia of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up.
  • Dissociative disorder
    Dissociative disorders (DD) are conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception.
  • Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
    Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), also known as non-epileptic attack disorders (NEAD), are events resembling an epileptic seizure, but without the characteristic electrical discharges associated with epilepsy.
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder
    Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that can develop after a person is exposed to a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, or other threats on a person's life.
  • Fugue state
    Dissociative fugue, formerly fugue state or psychogenic fugue, is a DSM-5 dissociative disorder.
  • Anthropophobia
    Anthropophobia or Anthrophobia (literally "fear of man", from Greek: άνθρωπος, ánthropos, "man" and φόβος, phóbos, "fear"), also called interpersonal relation phobia or social phobia, is pathological fear of people or human company.
  • Generalized anxiety disorder
    Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry, that is, apprehensive expectation about events or activities.
  • Neurasthenia
    Neurasthenia is a term that was first used at least as early as 1829 to label a mechanical weakness of the actual nerves, rather than the more metaphorical "nerves" referred to by George Miller Beard later.
  • Panic disorder
    Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent unexpected panic attacks.
  • Ganser syndrome
    Ganser syndrome is a rare dissociative disorder previously classified as a factitious disorder.
  • Dhat syndrome
    Dhat syndrome (Sanskrit: धातु दोष, IAST: Dhātu doṣa) is a condition found in the cultures of the Indian subcontinent in which male patients report that they suffer from premature ejaculation or impotence, and believe that they are passing semen in their urine.
  • Psychasthenia
    Psychasthenia is a psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety.
  • Acute stress reaction
    Acute stress reaction (also called acute stress disorder, psychological shock, mental shock, or simply shock) is a psychological condition arising in response to a terrifying or traumatic event, or witnessing a traumatic event.