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Diseases » Psychotic disorders » Glossary

Glossary for Psychotic disorders

Alcohol-Induced Disorders: Disorders caused by excessive alcohol consumption. The symptoms are variable depending on the disorder involved. Some of the disorders are: alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, alcohol intoxication, alcohol withdrawal, alcohol intoxication delirium, alcohol withdrawal delirium, alcohol-induced persisting dementia, alcohol-induced persisting amnestic disorder, alcohol-induced psychotic disorder, alcohol-induced mood disorder, alcohol-induced anxiety disorder, alcohol-induced sexual dysfunction, alcohol-induced sleep disorder, liver damage, liver cancer and esophageal cancer.
Bipolar disorder: Cycles of mania and depression; commonly called "manic-depression".
Brief Psychotic Disorder: Episodes of brief psychosis
Conduct Disorder: Behavioral disorder with antisocial behaviors
Delirium: Severe state of mental confusion
Delusional disorder: Persisting delusional beliefs
Delusions: Inappropriate or irrational beliefs.
Depression: Various syndromes with excessive anxiety, phobias, or fear.
Dissociative Identity Disorder: A neurotic mental disorder where a person's field of consciousness is limited in order to fulfill an unconscious goal. Often selective amnesia is involved and the person develops what is called multiple personalities.
Drug abuse: Addiction to any of various illicit drugs.
Dysthymia: Mild form of depression
Hypochondriasis: A disorder characterised by a preoccupation with normal bodily functions as abnormalities
Mental illness: Any psychological syndrome
Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Behavioral disorder with obsessive thoughts and compulsive acts.
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.
Pain Disorder: Somatoform disorder causing pain
Paranoia: Delusion that people or events conspire against you.
Personality disorders: A group of psychiatric disorders that are characterised but abnormal dysfunctional personalities
Psychiatric disorders: Any condition that affects ones mind
Psychological disorders: Any condition that affects ones mind
Psychosis: Mental loss of connection with reality
Psychotic Behaviour: Inability or opposition to recognize and accept reality and to relate this to others.
Schizophrenia: Psychiatric disorder with delusional beliefs and hallucinations.
Separation anxiety disorder: Excessive anxiety over separation
Somatization Disorder: A disorder that is characterised by multiple somatic complaints
Specific phobias: Irrational fears of specific situations, actions or items.
Trichotillomania: A mental disorder where a person feels compelled to pull out their own hair.
Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A deficiency of Vitamin B12 primarily causes anemias the body is unable to make sufficient quantities of normal red blood cells. Severe cases can lead to permanent nervous system problems. The vitamin B12 deficiency can result from absorption problems, insufficient dietary intake, certain medications (e.g. metformin), inherited conditions (e.g. transcobalamin deficiency) and certain chronic parasitic intestinal infestations.
Vitamin D deficiency: Deficiency of vitamin D