Are you facing Social Anxiety disorder ?

Social Anxiety disorder ( Social phobia) 

A. Marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny by others. Examples include social interactions (e.g., having a conversation, meeting unfamiliar people), being observed (e.g., eating or drinking), and performing in front of others (e.g., giving a speech). 

B. The individual fears that he or she will act in a way or show anxiety symptoms that will be negatively evaluated (i.e., will be humiliating or embarrassing : will lead to rejection or offend others). 

C. The social situations almost always provoke fear or anxiety. 

D. The social situations are avoided or endured with intense fear or anxiety. 

E. The fear or anxiety is out of proportion to the actual threat posed by the social situation and to the sociocultural context. 

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Are you in separation Anxiety disorder ?

Separation Anxiety Disorder 

=> Recurrent excessive distress when anticipating or experiencing separation from home or from major attachment figures.

=> Persistent and excessive worry about losing major attachment figures or about possible harm  to them, such as illness, injury, disasters,or death. 

=>  Persistent reluctance or refusal to go out, away from home, to school, to work, or elsewhere because of fear of separation.

=> Persistent and excessive fear of or reluctance about being alone or without major attachment figures at home or in other settings.

=> Persistent reluctance or refusal to sleep away from home or to go to sleep without being near a major attachment figure.

=> Repeated nightmares involving the theme of separation.

=> Repeated complaints of physical symptoms (e.g., headaches, stomachaches, nausea, vomiting) when separation from major attachment figures occurs or is anticipated.

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General personality Disorder

GENERAL PERSONALITY DISORDER

A. An enduring pattern of inner experience and  behavior that deviates markedly from the    expectations of the individual's culture.

    

    1. Cognition(i.e., ways of perceiving and interpreting self, other people, and events).

 

   2. Affectivity (i.e., the range, intensity, lability, and appropriateness of emotional response).

     

  3. Interpersonal functioning.

  4. Impulse control. 

Diagnostic Features 

 

personality traits are enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts. only when personality traits are inflexible and maladaptive and cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress do they constitute personality disorders. 

Development and Course

The features of a personality disorder usually become recognizable during adolescence or early adult life. By definition, a personality disorder is an enduring pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is relatively stable over time. 

Culture-Related Diagnostic Issues

Judgments about personality functioning must take into account the individual,s ethnic, cultural, and social background.

Gender-Related Diagnostic Issues 

Certain personality disorders (e.g., antisocial personality disorder) are diagnosed more frequently in males. others (e.g., borderline, histrionic, and dependent personality disorders are diagnosed more frequently in females.

Differential Diagnosis

Other mental disorders and personality traits. Many of the specific criteria for the personality disorders describe features (e.g., suspiciousness, dependency, insensitivity ) that are also characteristic of episodes of other mental disorders.

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WHAT IS DEPRESSION

DEPRESSION

Five (or more ) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either (1) Depressed mood (2) Loss of interest or pleasure. 

( 1) Depressed mood most of the day nearly every day, as indicated by either subjective report (e.g., feels sad, empty, hopeless) or observation made by others (e.g., appears tearful). 

(2) Markedly diminished intereset or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day (as indicated by either subjective account or observation). 

(3) Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain (e.g., a change of more than 5 % of body weight in a month ), or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day. 

(4) Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day.

(5) Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day (observable by others, not merely subjective feelings of restlessness or being slowed down). 

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