Sleep-Wake Disorders: Insomnia Disorder.

Sleep Disorders. Sleep disorders (or sleep-wake disorders) involve problems with the quality, timing, and amount of sleep, which result in daytime distress and impairment in functioning. Sleep-wake disorders often occur along Read More …

Eating Disorders.

Eating disorder is defined as a psychological disorder centering on the avoidance, excessive consumption or purging of food. It is also said regarding eating disorder that it is a type Read More …

Personality Disorder Characterized by Anxious or Fearful Behavior: Avoidant, Schizotypal

Avoidant Personality Disorder. Anxious (Avoidant) Personality Disorder is a condition characterized by extreme shyness, feelings of inadequacy, and sensitivity to rejection. These individuals feel inferior to others. This disorder is Read More …

Personality Disorder Characterized by Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic Behavior: Histrionic & Narcissistic

Histrionic Personality Disorder. Histrionic personality disorder, often abbreviated as (HPD), is a type of personality disorder in which the affected individual displays an enduring pattern of attention- seeking and excessively Read More …

Personality Disorders and Gender Differences.

A personality disorders is a type of mental disorder in which you have a rigid and unhealthy pattern of thinking, functioning and behaving. A person with a personality disorder has Read More …

Delusional Disorder.

Delusions are beliefs that are not generally held by other members of a society. The major feature of delusional disorder is a persistent belief that is contrary to reality, in Read More …

Schizophreniform Disorder.

American Psychological Association refers Schizophreniform disorder as a disorder whose essential features are identical to those of schizophrenia except that the total duration is between 1 and 6 months (i.e., Read More …

Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness characterized by incoherent or illogical thoughts, bizarre behavior and speech, and delusions or hallucinations, such as hearing voices. The age of onset is typically Read More …

Suicide and Cyclothymic Disorder.

American Psychological Association refers cyclothymic disorder as a mood disorder characterized by periods of hypomanic symptoms and periods of depressive symptoms that occur over the course of at least 2 years. Read More …

Bipolar-II Disorder.

APA refers bipolar II disorder, as a disorder in which the individual fluctuates between major depressive and hypomanic episodes; and cyclothymic disorder. The former official name for bipolar disorders, manic-depressive Read More …

Major Depressive Disorder

Major Depressive Disorder- A mood disorder characterized by persistent sadness and other symptoms of a major depressive episode. But without accompanying episodes of mania or hypomania or mixed episodes of Read More …