By Gallows, totse2
Originally posted 03/13/2011
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I thought it'd be helpful to post a list of common mental disorders and their symptoms and treatments. This is a work in progress, and I will be updating/reorganizing the material frequently. I'm considering adding an epidemiology and a causes section as well.
Disclaimer: This thread is for informational purposes only. It is not meant to be a diagnostic tool.
Affective Disorders
Major Depression
Symptoms: Recurrent thoughts of suicide, anhedonia, sleep disturbance, fatigue, etc.
Treatment: Psychotherapy, phototherapy, antidepressants (SSRIs, MAOI, etc), electroconvulsive therapy, St.John's Wort, Thyroxin, TMS, MST, vagal nerve stimulation, etc.
Atypical Depression
Symptoms: Weight gain, binging, leaden paralysis, histrionic traits, hypersomnia.
Treatment: Psychotherapy and antidepressants.
Bipolar Disorder
Symptoms: Depression, extreme euphoria, severe insomnia, auditory hallucinations, rapid cycling between moods, etc.
Treatment: Lithium carbonate, anticonvulsants, antipsychotics, and antidepressants.
Subcategories: Cylothymia, Bipolar I, Bipolar II, and Bipolar NOS.
Anxiety Disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Symptoms: Debilitating worry and fretfulness, restlessness, difficulty concentrating, insomnia, accelerated heart rate, dry mouth, nausea, etc.
Treatments: Limiting stimulants, Benzodiazepines, Beta-blockers, SSRIs, atypical antidepressants, and psychotherapy.
Panic Disorder
Symptoms: Occurrence of panic attacks without warning.
Treatment: Anxiolytic medications, SSRIs, psychotherapy, and desensitization.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Symptoms: Chronic fears of being watched/judged by others, fear of making embarrassing mistakes, etc
Treatment: SSRIs and psychotherapy.
Specific Phobias
Symptoms: Fears or panic attacks out of proportion to the situation. Desire to avoid offending stimulus.
Treatment: Anxiolytic or antidepressant medication, systematic desensitization, in vivo desensitization, and virtual reality (for select phobias).
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Symptoms: Debilitating obsessions and compulsions.
Treatment: SSRIs, tricyclics, behavior therapy,and cingulotomy (for sever cases).
Subcategories: Trichotillomania, onychophagia, hypochondriasis, and body dysmorphic disorder.
Stress disorders
Symptoms: dissociative symptoms, chronic hyper arousal, insomnia, irritability, aggressiveness, and survival guilt.
Treatment: Anxiolytics, antidepressants, sleep medication, and psychotherapy.
Subcategories: Acute stress disorder and Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Dissociative Disorders
Dissociative Amnesia
Symptoms: Inability to recall appropriate personal information.
Treatment: Anxiolytic medications, psychotherapy, and sedative-hypnotic medications.
Dissociative Fugue
Symptoms: Sudden travel away from area of work/residence with amnesia of the individual's past. Confusion about identity or adoption of a new identity.
Treatment: Anxiolytic medications, psychotherapy, and sedative-hypnotic medications.
Depersonalization Disorder
Symptoms: Lack of emotion, altered perception, jamais vu, etc.
Treatment: Psychotherapy and SSRIs.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Symptoms: Presence of two or more distinct identities. At least two of the identities control the person's behavior.
Treatment: Psychotherapy, antidepressants, and anti-anxiety medication.
Schizophrenia
Symptoms: Disturbances of language and communication, disordered emotionality, motor abnormalities
Treatment: Antipsychotics, tranquilizers, and neuroleptics.
Subcategories: Disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, paranoid, and residual.
Personality Disorders
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Symptoms: Unwarranted suspicion and mistrust, restricted emotion, moralistic ideation.
Treatment:
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Symptoms: Inability to form close relationships, aloof demeanor, indifferent to praise or criticism.
Treatment: Antipsychotics, antidepressants, psychotherapy.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Symptoms: 'Magical thinking,' social anxiety, eccentric speech, paranoia.
Treatment: Antipsychotics, psychotherapy.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Symptoms: Extreme attention seeking, overly dramatic, egocentric, transient relationships, vain, threats of suicide.
Treatment: Antidepressants, psychotherapy.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Symptoms: Grandiose sense of self-importance, fantasies of unlimited success, lack of empathy, sense of entitlement.
Treatment: Schema therapy.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Symptoms: Chaotic relationships, self-damaging behavior, abandonment depressions, self-mutilation, intense anger.
Treatment: Antidepressants, anxiolytics, antipsychotics, psychodynamic therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Symptoms: Violation of others' rights, excessive deception, impulsiveness, aggression, lack of remorse, etc.
Treatment: No known treatment.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Symptoms: Hypersensitive to rejection/ridicule, hesitant to enter relationships, social withdrawal, low self-esteem,
Treatment: Anxiolytics, antidepressants, and group therapy.
Dependent Personality Disorder
Symptoms: Allows life to be run by others, defers decisions to others, tolerates abuse, sees self as helpless,
Treatment: Anxiolytics, group therapy.
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Symptoms: Perfectionist, judgmental about self and others, oversensitive to criticism, obsessed with small details
Treatment: Antidepressants, psychotherapy.
