Psychological Disorders

A distorted body image and fear of fat and food that leads to self-starvation.

Eating disorder with a binge-purge cycle, but sufferers do not lose as much of their body weight as anorexics.

The use of substances or behaviors like gambling which regularly negatively affects a person life.

Neurodevelopmental disorders involve deviations from typical social development.

Children with autism spectrum disorder often tend to be hypersensitive to sensory stimulation and exhibit intense interests not viewed as interesting by most people.

A child with ADHD may have difficulty paying attention or sitting still.

A form of dementia, a deterioration of cognitive abilities, often seen most dramatically in memory.

Persistent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) cause someone to feel the need (compulsion) to engage in a particular action.

Involves flashbacks or nightmares after an extremely troubling event such as a war or natural disaster.

Marked by the sexual attraction to an object, a person, or an activity not usually seen as sexual.

A man experiencing obsessive and potentially dangerous thoughts.

Someone who becomes sexually aroused by watching others engage in some kind of sexual activity.

Someone who seeks and enjoys being injured, violated, abused, endangered, or mistreated.

A person is given two or more conflicting messages and one negates the other.

Excess in behavior, thought, or mood such as neologisms and hallucinations.

Deficits such as flat affect or catatonia.

High levels of dopamine seem to be associated with schizophrenia.

Formerly known as manic depression, usually involves both depressed and manic episodes.

Beliefs that have no basis in reality.

Perceptions in the absence of any sensory stimulation.