Phobias

Phobias are anxiety disorders. A fear of something is not a phobia, a fear only becomes a Phobia when it negatively impacts on aperson everyday life e.g. not being able to leave the house because the fear that there may be a spider outside.

• Specific Phobias - The fear of a specific object or situation e.g. Arachnophobia

• Social Phobias - The fear of humlition in public places e.g. Eating in a Restaurants

•  Agoraphobia - The fear of public places e.g. Shopping Malls 

The following are typical Behavioural, Emotional and Cognative charateristics of Phobias:

• Behavioural - Painic, Avoidance, Endurance

• Emotional- Anxiety, Emotional responses are deemed unreasonable.

• Cognative - Selective Attention to the Phobic Stimulus, Irrational Beliefs, Cognative Distortions

Depression is a mood disorder. It involes a prolonged and fundmental disturbance of mood and emotion. Depressive disorder are the most common out of all psychopathological disorders (20%). there are no clincal tests for depression so on order diagnose psychologist have to go what the piatent tells them. In order to have clincial depression, 5 of the following symptoms have to of occured over 2 weeks:

• Poor Appetite and Weight loss OR Increased appitite and Weight gain.
• Sleep difficulty OR Too Much Sleep.
• Loss of energy.
• Body slowed down OR Speeded up.
• Feelings of innappropiate Guilt
• Inability to concentrate
• Suicidal Behaviour

• Major Depressive Disorder (Serve But Short Term)
• Persistant Depressive Disorder (Long Term and Reccuring)
• Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (Childhood Temper Tanturms)
• Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (Disruption to Mood Prior/During Menstrution) 

The following are typical Behavioural, Emotional and Cognative charateristics of Depression:

• Behavioural - Shift in activity level, Sleep loss or gain, Agreesion/Self Harm

• Emotional - Low Mood, Anger, Low Self-Esteem

• Cognitive - Poor Concentration, Dwelling on the negative, Absolutist Thinking

Obsessive Complusive Disorder (OCD) is a serious anxiety-related condition where a person experinces frequent intrusive and unwelcome obsessional thoughts, often followed by repetitive complusions, impulses or urges.

The following are typical Behavioural, Emotional and Cognative charateristics of OCD:

• Behavioural - Compulsions, Aviodance

• Emotional - Anxiety and Distress, Accompanying Depression, Guilt and Disgust

• Cognitive - Obsessive Thoughts