Glossary for Psychiatric disorders

• Acute stress disorder: An acute anxiety state
• Addiction: Any of various addictions to substances or activities.
• Alcohol abuse: Excessive use of alcohol ranging from binge drinking to severe alcoholism
• Alcoholism: Alcoholism is the compulsive urge to drink alcohol despite knowing the negative impact on one's health.
• Anorexia Nervosa: A disorder where a distorted sense of body image leads to self-starvation to the point of death in some cases.
• Anti-Social Personality Disorder: A psychiatric condition characterized by chronic behavioral and social problems which often involves criminal behaviour.
• Anxiety disorders: Anxiety disorders are persistent and excessive feelings of fear, worry or uneasiness that are significant enough to have an impact on day-to-day life. Excessive anxiety can have repercussions on physical and mental health. There are a number of different subtypes of anxiety disorders such as General anxiety, Social anxiety, Phobias, Hypochondria and Obsessive compulsive disorder.
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Behavioral disorder with hyperactivity and/or inattention.
• Autism: Childhood mental condition with social and communication difficulties.
• Avoidant Personality Disorder: Personality type that avoids other people
• Behavioral disorders: Disorders affecting behavior and emotional wellbeing
• Binge eating disorder: Excessive overeating but without purging
• Bipolar disorder: Cycles of mania and depression; commonly called "manic-depression".
• Brief Psychotic Disorder: Episodes of brief psychosis
• Bulimia nervosa: Eating disorder with binging (overeating) and purging (vomiting).
• Chromosome 22q11 Deletion Spectrum: A rare chromosomal disorder where a small piece of genetic material is missing from chromosome 22 at the q11 location.
• Conduct Disorder: Behavioral disorder with antisocial behaviors
• Confusion: Mental confusion and impaired thinking.
• Deletion 22q11: A rare chromosomal disorder where a small piece of genetic material is missing from chromosome 22 at the q11 location.
• Delusional disorder: Persisting delusional beliefs
• Dependent Personality Disorder: A personality disorder that can be characterised by an excessive need to be taken care of
• Depression: Various syndromes with excessive anxiety, phobias, or fear.
• Depressive disorders: Depression or its various related conditions.
• Depressive symptoms: Inappropriate depressed mood.
• DiGeorge syndrome: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is a genetic disorder which can result in a vast array of symptoms. Various names have been used to describe different manifestations of the syndrome. Di George Syndrome primarily involves an underdeveloped thymus and parathyroid glands which results in lowered immunity low blood calcium levels respectively. Another primary feature is heart defects. Various other variable features are also present. It is not uncommon for patients to have more than one of the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome subtypes which can make diagnosis confusing - other subtypes include Sphrintzen syndrome, Caylor cardiofacial syndrome and CATCH 22.
• Diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy: A rare association of diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, and deafness.
• Disordered Eating: Unusual and troubled eating habits
• Drug abuse: Addiction to any of various illicit drugs.
• Dysthymia: Mild form of depression
• Eating Disorder not Otherwise Specified (ENDOS): Eating disorder that does not match a specific category.
• Eating disorders: Various mental disorders impairing normal eating or appetite.
• Gambling addiction: Addiction to gambling activities.
• Generalized anxiety disorder: Excessive anxiety and worrying.
• Hallucinations: Incorrect perception of any of the senses.
• Headache: In medicine a headache or cephalalgia is a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head and sometimes neck. Some of the causes are benign while others are medical emergencies. It ranks among the most common pain complaints
• Hearing voices: Hearing voices as a type of hallucination
• Histrionic Personality Disorder: Behavioral disorder seeking attention and approval
• Major depressive disorder: A condition which is characterized by the occurrence of a major episode of depression
• Major depressive episode: Episode of severe depression and related symptoms
• Methylmalonic acidemia -- homocystinuria: A rare inborn error of metabolism which results in impaired vitamin B12 metabolism. There are a number of forms of this condition with variable severity.
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder: A personality disorder that is characterised by a lack of social apathy and personal grandiosity
• Non-Contagious Diseases: Any disease that is not contagious
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Behavioral disorder with obsessive thoughts and compulsive acts.
• Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: Orderly and obsessive personality but not as severe as OCD
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder: A behavioral problem that occurs in children and involves persistent disobedience, defiance and hostility towards authority figures. The behavioral problem is greater than the normal pattern of child misbehaviors. The severity of the problem affects the child's ability to perform satisfactorily in home, school and community environments.
• Panic disorder: It is a severe medical condition characterized by extremely elevated mood.
• Paranoid Personality Disorder: Excessive paranoid beliefs
• Personality disorders: A group of psychiatric disorders that are characterised but abnormal dysfunctional personalities
• Phobias: Irrational fear of a particular situation, action, or item.
• Porphyria: A group of disorders characterized by excess production of porphyrin or its precursors which affects the skin and/or nervous system.
• Post-traumatic stress disorder: Stress following a traumatic event.
• Postpartum psychosis: The occurrence of psychosis in a woman that occurs after the birth of a child
• Psychotic disorders: Psychiatric disorders with mental detachment from reality
• Rett's syndrome: Autism-like behavioral syndrome in infant girls
• Schizoid Personality Disorder: A personality disorder which is characterized by long term emotional coldness, indifference and criticism of others.
• Schizophrenia: A psychiatric disorder characterized by hallucinations and delusional beliefs where a person is unable to distinguish between reality and imagination. The condition tends to have a chronic nature and can be severely debilitating if treatment isn't sought.
• Schizotypal Personality Disorder: A personality disorder which is characterized by long term emotional coldness, indifference and criticism of others.
• Separation anxiety disorder: Excessive anxiety over separation
• Shprintzen syndorme: An inherited syndrome of cardiac defects and craniofacial anomalies and various other abnormalities.
• Social phobia: Excessive anxiety in social situations.
• Specific phobias: Irrational fears of specific situations, actions or items.
• Spinocerebellar ataxia 17: A rare genetic disorder (chromosome 6q27 defect) characterized by . Gait ataxia and dysarthria (speech disorder) also occur and are symptoms common to all the spinocerebellar ataxia types.
• Summer affective disorder: Seasonal affective disorder is a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter or, less frequently, in the summer, repeatedly, year after year.
• Susac syndrome: A very rare characterized by poor blood supply resulting in damage to chochlear, retinal and brain tissue. It is results form inflammation of small blood vessels. Recurring attacks occur over a couple a couple of years and are months apart. The condition resolves itself eventually and the severity of persisting symptoms is variable.
• Temporal lobe epilepsy: A condition which is characterized by complex partial seizures
• Thyroid disorders: Any disorder of the thyroid gland.
• Velocardiofacial syndrome: A genetic disorder which can present with a wide range of phenotypic manifestations which has lead to a number of different names being assigned to the various presentations e.g. DiGeorge Syndrome and Cayler Anomaly Face Syndrome. There are nearly 200 different symptoms that can occur and the severity of the condition is also highly variable depending on the nature and severity of the symptoms that are present.
• Wolfram Syndrome 2: Wolfram Syndrome is a condition characterized by the association of diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness. Type 2 is the result of a genetic defect and is similar to type 1 but there is no diabetes insipidus and patients tend to develop gastrointestinal problems.

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