III Dissocrative disorders

DISORDERS

• these disorders involve a disruption in the conscious process

Three types
Psychogenic Amnesia

• A person cannot remember things with no physical basis for the disruption in memory
• Retrograde Amnesia
• Not organic amnesia

Dissociative Fugue 

• People with psychogenic amnesia find themselves in an unfamiliar environment

Dissociative Identity Disorder 

• Used to be known as multiple personality disorder
• a person has several rather than one integrated personality    
• People with DID commonly have a history of childhood abuse or trauma

IV Mood Disorder

• Experience extreme or inappropriate emotion

Major Depression

• A.K.A Unipolar depression
• Unhappy for at least 2 weeks with no apparent cause
• Depression is the commonly cold of psychology disorders

Seasonal Affective Disorder

• Experience depression during the winter months
• based not on temperature but on amount of sunlight
• treated with sunlight

Bipolar Disorder

• formally manic depression
• involve period of depression and manic episode
• Manic episodes involve feelings of high energy

Personality Disorder

• well established maladaptive ways of behavior that negatively affect peoples ability to function
• Dominates there personality

Antisocial Disorder

• lack of empathy
• little regard for others feelings
• view the words hostile and for themselves

Dependent personality Disorder

• Rely too much on the attention and help of others

Histrionic Personality Disorder

• Needs to be the center of attention
• whether acting silly or dressily provocatively

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• having an unwanted sense of self importance
• thinking that you are the center of attention .