Page 2 - psychological disorders

 Specific Phobia– most common. Includes irrational fears of a certain animal, or
being in an enclosed space.
 Social Phobia– Intense and incapacitating fear and embarrassment when dealing
with other characters.
 Agoraphobia– is when people develop a fear of entering unfamiliar situations. Or
sometimes afraid of entering their home.

4. Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD)
 Individuals with separation anxiety disorder are fearful and anxious about
separation from attachment figures to an extent that is developmentally not
appropriate.
 Children with SAD may have difficulty being in a room by themselves going to
school alone, are fearful of entering new situations, and cling to and shadow their
parents’ every move.
 To avoid separation, children with SAD may fuss, scream, throw severe tantrums,
or make suicidal gestures.

5. Obsessive compulsive disorder-
 People suffering are unable to control their preoccupation with specific ideas or
unable to prevent themselves from repeating a particular act/series of acts that
affect their ability to carry out normal activities.
 Obsessive: is when you cannot stop thinking about an idea or a topic, generally
unpleasant or shameful.
 Compulsive: is the urge to repeat/perform certain behaviours/acts over and over
again. E.g. counting a bundle, order checking, washing hands repeatedly.

6. Post-traumatic stress disorder-
 Very rarely when some people have been caught in a natural disaster, floods,
earthquakes, tsunami, war, terrorist attack, major accident etc. experience this
disorder.
 Symptoms- dreams, flashbacks, impaired concentration and emotional numbing.

Somatoform Disorder

 These are conditions, where there are physical symptoms despite no/absence of any
physical disease.
 In this the individual has physical difficulties but complains of physical symptoms,
for which there is no biological cause.
 These disorders include:
conversion disorders, somatic symptom disorder, and illness anxiety disorder among
others.