Brief Psychotic Disorder

Brief Psychotic Disorder is a psychosis that has a rapid onset, generally following a major stressor. Its hallmark is emotional turmoil, mood lability, and confusion. The sufferer must have one of the following symptoms, delusion, hallucinations, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior or disorganized speech. A brief psychotic episode is time limited, lasting at least a day, but less than a month. As a rule the quicker the onset, the faster the recovery

Breathing-Related Sleep Disorder

Breathing-Related Sleep Disorder, also known as sleep apnea, causes the sufferer to stop breathing during the night for periods lasting from 30 seconds to 2 minutes, upto 400 times per night. The sufferers are divided into two groups 1) The 2/3 who feels exhausted by day and 2)1/3 who cannot fall asleep at night. Often this associated with people who are overweight, suffer from coronary artery disease or have had strokes

Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) occurs in approximately 2% of the population. It is a disorder in which a person has a pattern of unstable personal relationships, a self-image that is not well formed, and poor impulse control in areas such as spending, sexual conduct, driving, eating, and substance abuse. Additionally, the person suffering from BPD fears abandonment and will go to any length to prevent this. They feel chronic emptiness.
One of the hallmarks of BPD is known as "splitting". This is where the person with BPD will swing between idealizing and devaluing people in relationships. They will pit people against one another, making one group the "white hats" and the other the "black hats". A person is either good or bad, the person with BPD being unable to reconcile that there is both good and bad within a person. And this categorization of a person may shift from day to day, the person being good one day and bad the next.
There may be suicidal threats, gestures or attempts made by the person with BPD. There may also be self-mutilation that occurs. Their mood may be very prone to outside stress, with feelings of depression and anger readily provoked, with anxiety also a common occurrence. With extreme stress, the person with BPD may experience paranoid ideation, or may have dissociative symptoms such as "running on automatic" and disconnecting from reality.
The treatment for BPD may consist of medication and therapy. Antidepressants may help with depression while specific SSRI's (prozac, zoloft, etc) may help with impulse control. Mood stabilizers (antiepileptics such as tegretol, depakote) can help with mood swings and irritability. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and the related Dialectical Behavior Therapy are the two most common therapies used in the treatment of BPD.

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Body Dysmorphic Disorder occurs in people who are normal-looking.However,they are overly concerned with a small defect in their apperance.In order to qualify for this diagnosis,this preoccupation must affect their lives in at least one situation,be it work,leisure or marriage,or couse significant distress.Oftentimes those with this disorder may go so far as to have a plastic surgery

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder also known as manic depression is an affective disorder that causes periodic mood swings in which they cycle from depression to mania. Depression may be characterized by having a lack of motivation, difficulty doing tasks, short attention span, decreased appetite, crying spells, difficulty in getting to sleep or sleeping too much, and in the more severe cases thoughts of self harm. Mania is separated into two types: Full mania and hypomania. Mania may be characterized by a decreased need for sleep, decreased self-control, overspending, increased sexual activity, irritability, rage, risk-taking behaviors, and in the more severe cases psychotic states. Hypomania is described as having the same behaviors, to a less extreme level.

Binge Eating Disorder

A binge is defined as eating in a discrete period of time (a limited period, usually less than two hours) an amount of food that is definitely larger than most individuals would eat under similar circumstances. A binge is not limited to a single sitting and typically includes sweet, high caloric foods and is characterized more by abnormality in the amount of food consumed than by a craving for a specific nutrient such as carbohydrates.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Avoidant Personality Disorder is where a person has an extreme fear of being judged negatively by other people, and suffers from a high level of social discomfort as a result. They tend to only enter into relationships where uncritical acceptance is almost guranteed.They undergo social withdrawal, suffer from low self-esteem, but have a great desire of affection and acceptance.However,they do not want the affection as they fear the rejection

Asperger's Syndrome over veiw

Asperger’s disorder is a separate Autistic Spectrum disorder which does not meet criteria for other Pervasive Developmental Disorders or Schizophrenia. Features of this disease are severe and sustained impairment in social interaction and the development of repetitive patters of behaviour, interests and activities and significant impairment in social, occupational and other important areas of functioning. Because there are no significant language delays or cognitive deflects, Asperger’s is considered as a form of highly functioning autism

Anxiety Disorder study

Anxiety Disorder is diagnosed when patients have symptoms of anxiety disorder or adjustment disorder with anxiety disorder or mixed anxiety and depressed mood.The category generally includes patients disorders with prominent anxiety or phobiac avoidance that do not meet criterai for any specific anxiety disporder,adjustment disorder with anxiety,or adjustemt disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood