Initial Encounter Subsequent Encounter; Sequelae When your doctor prescribed an antidepressant to help with anxiety, you began to feel better over a period of time. You figure you might as well just throw the…
Disorder
Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is when people who have consistent issues with alcohol continue to drink to excess. A person with AUD has a strong desire for alcohol, a difficult time controlling its use, and…
The urge to steal items can’t be resisted, and they really don’t need or even want the things they steal. They can afford to buy the items, but there’s an impulse to steal, and it’s out…
You watch it on television, where a person can barely walk in his house because of stacks of papers and boxes piled on top of one another. The person sometimes can’t use the kitchen or living…
Insomnia is a sleep-wake disorder, where people have trouble initiating sleep, staying asleep and by waking up early in the morning and not being able to go back to sleep. Even when individuals with the disorder…
Mental illnesses are health conditions that involve changes in thinking, emotion or behavior—or a combination of the three. They’re connected with distress and/or problems functioning in social settings, on the job or during family activities. According…
Individuals with Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) usually have prevalent distrust and suspicion of other people that has lasted for a long time. They will almost always distrust other people’s intentions, sometimes even thinking their motives are…
When Mick Jagger, long-time rock-and-roller and front man for The Rolling Stones, was told his girlfriend, L’Wren Scott, committed suicide in March of 2014, his doctor diagnosed him with Acute Stress Disorder (ASD). Jagger’s extreme mental…
Personality disorders are described as long-standing and lasting patterns of behavior. It is uncommon for them to be diagnosed during childhood or in adolescence primarily because at this age the individual is in development, is undergoing…
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), schizophrenia is characterized by a range of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional…
When people complain about pain, gripe that they are coming down with a cold or grieve about a major health problem–but there are no…
Bipolar 2 Disorder is diagnosed after one or more major depressive episodes and at least one episode of hypomania—and possible periods of level mood…
