anxiety disorders - Answers extreme fears of real or imaginary situations that get in the way of normal
activities
phobias - Answers intense and exaggerated fears of a specific object or situation
mood disorders - Answers a mental and emotional problem in which a person undergoes mood swings
that seem extreme, inappropriate, or last a long time.
personality disorders - Answers a variety of psychological conditions that affect a person's ability to get
along with others.
schizophrenia - Answers a severe mental disorder characterized by delusions, paranoia, and
hallucinations.
delusions - Answers beliefs that have no basis in reality
hallucinations - Answers hearing voices or seeing people that are not there
depression - Answers A mood disorder in which a person feels a strong sense of hopelessness,
helplessness, worthlessness, guilt, and extreme sadness.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Answers Occurs after a very stressful event, where people with this
disorder experience flashbacks in which they relive the event.
Bipolar Disorder - Answers A mood disorder involving extreme mood swings for no apparent reason.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Answers A disorder in which a person becomes trapped in a pattern of
repeated thoughts or actions.
Panic Disorder - Answers An intense fear called Panic Attacks. Pounding heart, sweating, nausea
Paranoid Personality Disorder - Answers A disorder characterized by mistrust of others, belief that
others want to harm them, suspicion, and hostility.
Antisocial Personality Disorder - Answers A disorder characterized by extremes of emotion and behavior,
little respect for others, lying, stealing, and harming people in other ways.
Dependent Personality Disorder - Answers A disorder characterized by feeling and acting afraid all of the
time, and looking for others to take care of them all of the time.
Mental and Emotional Disorders - Answers illnesses that affect a person's thoughts, feelings, mood, and
behavior
Stigma - Answers A set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about
something.