Across
- 3. a cluster of symptoms that is considered a recognizable disease only within a specific culture or society
- 6. an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation
- 7. psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
- 11. disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings
- 12. persistent sadness and a lack of interest or pleasure in previously rewarding or enjoyable activities
- 15. disorder persistent, false beliefs
- 16. an anxiety disorder that consists of sudden, overwhelming attacks of terror
- 18. a personality disorder characterized by preoccupation with orderliness, perfection, and control
- 19. a disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience
- 22. a dissociative disorder characterized by persistent or recurrent feelings of detachment from one's mental processes or body
- 23. fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open spaces, where one has felt loss of control and panic because it is a situation that is difficult to escape from
- 24. type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Down
- 1. disorder in which person experiences a break from reality; hallucinations, delusions, and lack of emotion are primary features
- 2. irrational fear about social situations or people
- 4. a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either depressed mood, or lost of interest/pleasure
- 5. repetitive, purposeful acts performed in an attempt to eliminate obsessions
- 8. persistent and pervasive feelings of anxiety without any external cause
- 9. brief, intense episode of extreme fear characterized by sweating, dizziness, light-headedness, racing heartbeat, and feelings of impending death or going crazy
- 10. the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
- 13. the believe that we cannot do anything without help.
- 14. disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings
- 17. swings of mood from depression to mania
- 20. the expression of psychological distress through physical symptoms; it comes from the Greek word for "body"
- 21. a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state