Mood and Personality Disorders

Transcript The most important thing to emphasis is that this is a separate diagnosis from OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. OCD is an axis one disorder and is an excited disorder versus OCPD which is one of 10 personality disorder, so axis 2 disorder. I would say the main short hand way to differentiate between …

Transcript I want to start off by clarifying that it is difficult to talk about any category of medication as a whole because within every category there is gonna be individual medication that have certain variations but in general what we are talking about medications for depression, we are talking about anti-depressant medications that are …

Transcript So this is a question that causes a lot of confusion for people, and there is a way to boil it down to a simple understanding for what the difference is between a psychologist and a psychiatrist. A psychologist goes to graduate school and has a graduate degree in psychology. In general psychologists will …

Transcript So, finding a Psychiatrist can be a very complicated process. It’s gonna vary depending on where you are and how many Psychiatrists are available. One basic area that has to think about are whom you can feel comfortable with. So think about the person’s age, think about their gender, think about where their office …

Transcript The idea of when does it make sense to see a psychiatrist is a complicated one, but I would say that for anybody who’s reached an extreme of their symptoms, the answer to that question is obvious. So really the question is for anybody’s who’s on the borderline. They’re having symptoms but they’re not …

Transcript Friends often ask me, what things can they do to help preserve their mental health. And I have them go back to the basics, which are diet, sleep, and exercise. And I wanna focus on exercise, because there isn’t a full understanding of how beneficial exercise can be for various mental health conditions. But …

Transcript My name is Dr. Ankur Saraiya and we are certified in general psychiatry and practicing in NewYork city for ten years.Have a degree in biology from Harvard and medical and psychiatry training at Columbia and now I am a faculty at NYU in Well view hospital. I specialize in treating patients with mood and …

Transcript When you’re talking about a mood disorder, you may be just trying to classify 1 of the 3 major areas of psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric disorders can basically be broken up into psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, and mood disorders. Mood disorders refers to the group of disorders where, as the name implies, the main problem …

Transcript Technically speaking, Season Affective Disorder is not a separate diagnosis but is actually one of the sub-types of Major Depressive Disorder. But, for practical purposes, it can be useful to think about Seasonal Affective Disorder as an actual diagnosis. As the name implies, Season Affective Disorder is a mood disorder that goes along with …

Transcript Bipolar illnesses comprise of depressive episodes, as well as, distinct manic episodes. And briefly in a manic episode it can be thought short hand as the opposite of depression. When somebodies depressed they think nothings going to work out with them and everything is doomed to failure. Where as, in the height of a …

Transcript There’s a lot of confusions surrounding what a Mixed Episode is and let me start out by saying that according to the Diagnostic manual somebody who has a Mixed Episode meets criteria for both depressive symptoms of a Depressive Episode at the same time that they’re having the symptoms of a Manic Episode. And …

Transcript So bipolar 1 disorder includes depressive episodes and also manic episodes which are the full extreme of the elevated moods. Individuals have limitless energy, limitless confidence and end up getting themselves into trouble either by taking on too much or ignoring risks and getting arrested or getting admitted in hospitals. Individuals of bipolar 2 …

Transcript Major Depressive Disorder, also known as Clinical Depression, is one of the main illnesses that psychiatrists deal with. And it’s not simply a matter of being, just having depressed mood, or being bummed out when something bad happens. It’s a specific constellation of symptoms. Now one of those symptoms that you have to have …

Transcript So depression and anxiety are two of the most common experiences that people have and two of the most common reasons that people come into treatment. And yet, despite this, I think that too many people suffer from symptoms of depression and anxiety without considering coming to treatment. Because they are afraid that a …

Transcript Because suicide is so final and so tragic, it’s very important for psychiatrists to err on the side of safety. But I want to talk about the fact that suicide is not necessarily an abnormal thought. It’s not necessarily a sign of major illness. In some ways it’s perfectly natural for people to have …

Transcript So, the basic symptoms of schizophrenia can be grouped into 2 areas. What are called positive symptoms and negative symptoms. The positive symptoms are things like hearing voices and having delusions, and the negative symptoms are more a social detachment. So the various kinds of treatment address these 2 areas of schizophrenic symptoms. Psychiatrists …

Transcript What is a Personality Disorder: The first thing to understand is that personality disorders are grouped as a group of diagnoses to separate them from what we call Primary or Access 1 disorders. In the DSM, which is the manual that psychiatrists use to make diagnoses, they came up with a system of 5 …

Transcript There are two basic modalities that are used to treat OCD: there are medications and there are behavioral therapies. Medications are used to target the anxiety, which is thought to underly the symptoms of OCD. So, by using medications to reduce an individual’s level of anxiety, it’s thought that the pressure that they feel …

Transcript The first thing i want to specify is that OCD is not a personality disorder, there actually is a personality disorder called Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, or OCPD, but that’s different and separate from OCD. In OCD individuals have obsessions which are repeated thoughts that create anxiety, or they can have both obsessions and …

Transcript So Schizoid Personality Disorder is one of ten personality disorders that are identified in the DSM, which is the manual that psychiatrists use to diagnose all mental illnesses, including personality disorders. The main feature of Schizoid Personality Disorder is that these individuals don’t have any desire to engage in any kind of relationships. They’ll …

Instructions Step 1: Personality disorder tests exist Know that there are tests that do exist to reveal if someone has traits of a personality disorder. Step 2: Understand the process of a test Understand that these tests should always be accompanied by a clinical assessment and professional evaluation to see if your behavior is manifesting …

Transcript This is a good example of how confusing terminology causes a lot of problems in understanding different aspects of psychiatric treatment. Why would you use an antipsychotic on somebody who’s not psychotic? The answer to that question is that the effects of medications that are used to treat psychotic symptoms are not limited to …

Transcript The question about who takes depression medication is complicated because the terminology can be so confusing. Medications that are called anti-depressants, while they are used to treat depression, they’re also used appropriately to treat a lot of other illnesses, and in some cases, they’re used inappropriately to treat other illnesses because relatively speaking the …

Transcript Is Self-Injury Caused by a Mood, Personality, or Anxiety Disorder? The idea of self injury is talking about a behavior and trying to boil down any behavior into a simple cause and effect is very problematic, but it’s understandable that one would want to know what causes self injury because hopefully you could try …

Transcript Social Anxiety Disorder is one of the group of anxiety disorders, and as the name implies, it’s used to identify individuals who have difficulty interacting with other people because of excessive anxiety. They’re overly concerned about being judged and they develop physical and psychological manifestations of their anxiety that are so extreme that they …

Transcript Anxiety disorders is a grouping of disorders of psychiatric disorders that are generally broken into three basic divisions. You have mood disorders, psychotic disorders, and then you have anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders have the common denominator of symptoms of anxiety and the various disorders are differentiated usually in what the triggers are, and what …

Transcript Schizotypal personality disorder is a disorder in which individuals exhibit odd behavior and odd thinking. They’re considered eccentric or bizarre and they’ll hold very odd ideas. It’s an illness that’s compared to schizophrenia and the characteristic or hallmark of Schizotypal personality disorder is that it does not consist of discrete episodes or a gradual …

Transcript Individuals with dependent personality disorder, as the name implies, tend to be dependent on other people in order to function. They see themselves as unable to function and to perform the basic tasks of getting by day to day and they need to have other people that they’re associated with and very commonly they’ll …

Transcript Histrionic Personality Disorder were first two specific disorders for individuals who have a tendency of wanting to have a attention on themselves. They need to be the focus of the attention and they will use various behavior to try to gain that attention. They tend to be overly romanic randios. They tend to be …

Instructions Step 1: What to know for treatment Understand there are two main considerations when treating people with borderline personality disorder: Know they can act impulsively and that you need explain why the person feels the way they do. Step 2: About dialectal behavioral therapy Learn about dialectal behavioral therapy: a therapy system especially for …

Transcript Borderline personality disorder is one of ten personality disorders, and it’s probably the most well known amongst the psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. And that’s because individuals with borderline personality disorder due tend to engage in very intense relationships. Including their treatment relationships. Part of the reasons for this are they don’t have …

Transcript “Like many other psychiatric illnesses, schizophrenia is often misunderstood because it can look different, depending on how extreme the symptoms are and how they manifest in a particular individual. So it can go from the extreme of people who are very disorganized and barely able to take care of themselves. Often we see people …

Transcript Diet and Psychiatric Disorders: There’s often an artificial separate between mental health and physical health and one of the areas where this manifests most clearly is the question of diet and whether or not diet can impact psychological health, and definitely it can because anything that we put in our bodies is going to …

Transcript Its important to recognize that the way that psychiatric disorders are characterized is a Chinese manual approach so often you need to have two or five or four or nine or some number of a full list of symptoms so its important to understand that what a particular episode looks like in one person …

Transcript That very first thing I want to emphasize is that in individuals who have poor disorder generally are going to require treatment. The extremes of manic episodes usually lead people to have different qualities. It can be difficulties where they get rested or their frequently handling of hospitalized. It can even lead to simply …

Transcript There are a few different things to understand about this question. First of all, there’s a problem with terminology in understanding exactly what one means by addictive. I think a better way, and a more useful way, to understand what the consequences are, is to ask your doctor and understand what happens, or what …

Transcript Narcissistic personality disorder it is one of the most interesting personality disorders because most of us feel like we know somebody who’s a narcissist. And probably we do. Most of us are familiar with the idea of narcissism or narcissist. They basically are very self centered and this is the hallmark of the personality …

Transcript So right off the bat I want to point out that having antisocial personality disorder does not mean that you’re not interested in interacting with people, that you don’t want to go out. Antisocial personality disorder actually refers to a set of actions and behaviors that violate the norms of society. It’s widely thought …

Transcript As the name implies, the main component of Paranoid Personality Disorder, is feelings of being discriminated against or oppressed on the part of the individual with the disorder. It’s often thought about in the same arena as other disorders that involve paranoid thinking but the main difference is, is that in other illnesses, such …

Transcript The key feature of avoidant personality disorder is that these individuals are very concerned that they’re going to be poorly judged by other people, and as a result they tend to avoid situations in which they’re going to interact with others and potentially be poorly judged. And an additional feature is that these individuals …

Transcript As the name implies generalizing anxiety disorder refers to anxiety that is prevasive for an individual and involves individual worrying about several different arenas of their life at the same time. its also not limited to discrete episodes but is as again name implies generalised in that the anxiety is experienced for most of …

Transcript Panic disorder is grouped in a group of disorders known as anxiety disorders. The first point I want to make is to differentiate a panic attack from a panic disorder. A panic attack is a discrete period of anxiety that comes on out the blue that lasts for about 30 or 40 minutes and …

Transcript As the name implies, PTSD develops after somebody has experienced a trauma. But, the idea of what that trauma is has evolved over time. It used to be thought that the trauma had to be so extreme that it involved a threat to somebody’s life. Eventually, it came to be understood that it could …

Transcript Acute Stress Disorder, is an anxiety disorder that’s closely related to PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and it’s basically an issue of timing. So, if there’s a traumatic event, and an individual develops symptoms within the first month of that event having taken place, and it hasn’t lasted for over a month, then …

Transcript Anxiety Disorders: Coping with Panic Attacks: Generally speaking if you’re wondering how to cope with panic attacks most likely you’re experiencing panic attacks in the context of panic disorder. Panic disorder is having panic attacks but then also being worried about having panic attacks and doing things to try to avoid situations that can …

Transcript For anybody who’s had a panic attack, it’s certainly understandable they’d be interested in knowing how you might prevent a panic attack. And I would say that the best way is to get an evaluation with a psychiatrist and find out if there is a medication that you can use that can actually suppress …

Transcript Sleep is a very important part of our lives and is in our very nature. If asked for advice to stay mentally healthy, one must always consider if you are getting enough sleep. And not just enough sleep; good, restful sleep. Sleep can be the very root of disorders such as depression, bi-polar disease. …