
Anxiety, dissociative and somatoform disorders

Anxiety states

Anxiety state unspecified
- Feeling of distress or apprehension whose source is unknown.
- unpleasant, but not necessarily pathological, emotional state resulting from an unfounded or irrational perception of danger; compare with FEAR and CLINICAL ANXIETY.
- Vague uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread accompanied by an autonomic response (the source often nonspecific or unknown to the individual); a feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger. It is an alerting signal that warns of impending danger and enables the individual to take measures to deal with threat.
- Apprehension or fear of impending actual or imagined danger, vulnerability, or uncertainty.
- Apprehension of danger and dread accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulus.
- Term was discontinued in 1997. In 2000, the term was removed from all records containing it, and replaced with ANXIETY DISORDERS, its postable counterpart.

Panic disorder without agoraphobia
- An episode of intense fear and anxiety that may be accompanied by one or more of the following symptoms: heart palpitations, sweating, shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, and trembling. Generally, attacks are unexpected and last no longer than 15 minutes.

Generalized anxiety disorder
- An anxiety disorder characterized by free-floating, persistent, and excessive worry for at least six months.

Other anxiety states

Dissociative, conversion and factitious disorders

Hysteria unspecified
- behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic; mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability and sometimes by amnesia or a physical deficit, such as paralysis, or a sensory deficit, without an organic cause.

Conversion disorder

Dissociative amnesia

Dissociative fugue
- subtype of hysterical neurosis; the current classification is dissociative disorders; sudden temporary alterations in the normally integrative functions of consciousness.

Dissociative identity disorder

Dissociative disorder or reaction unspecified
- Mental disorders characterized by disruptions and/or alterations in the normally integrated functions of consciousness, memory, or identity. Compare DISSOCIATION.

Factitious disorder with predominantly psychological signs and symptoms

Other and unspecified factitious illness

Phobic disorders
- anxiety disorder characterized by intense, unrealistic, persistent fear and avoidance of an object, activity, or situation.
- Disorders characterized by persistent, unrealistic, intense fear of an object, activity, or situation.

Phobia unspecified
- anxiety disorder characterized by intense, unrealistic, persistent fear and avoidance of an object, activity, or situation.
- Disorders characterized by persistent, unrealistic, intense fear of an object, activity, or situation.

Agoraphobia with panic attacks

Agoraphobia without panic attacks

Social phobia
- Extreme apprehension or fear of social interaction or social situations in general. Compare SOCIAL ANXIETY.
- Anxiety or fear associated with actual or anticipated oral communication with others.

Other isolated or specific phobias

Obsessive-compulsive disorders
- anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent obsessions or compulsions: obsessions are the intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that are experienced as senseless or repugnant; compulsions are repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior which the individual generally recognizes as senseless and from which the individual does not derive pleasure although it may provide a release from tension.
- Disorder characterized by recurrent obsessions or compulsions that may interfere with the individual's daily functioning or serve as a source of distress.

Dysthymic disorder
- Depression precipitated by events in a person's life.
- Chronic affective disorder characterized by either relatively mild depressive symptoms or marked loss of pleasure in usual activities.
- A term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic.

Neurasthenia

Depersonalization disorder
- A feeling of altered reality characterized by a feeling of unreality, or being unreal.

Hypochondriasis
- A preoccupation with a slight or imagined defect in appearance that causes significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning. Compare BODY IMAGE DISTURBANCES.
- preoccupation with the fear of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms.

Somatoform disorders
- Disorders characterized by bodily symptoms caused by psychological factors.

Somatization disorder
- Pattern of recurring polysymptomatic somatic complaints resulting in medical treatment or impaired daily function. Usually begins before age 30 and extends over a period of years.

Undifferentiated somatoform disorder
- Disorders characterized by bodily symptoms caused by psychological factors.

Other somatoform disorders

Unspecified nonpsychotic mental disorder
- class of mental disorders milder than psychosis, including hysteria, fugue, obsession, phobia, etc.
- Psychoanalytic term referring to mental conditions characterized primarily by anxiety, fears, obsessive thoughts, compulsions, dissociation, and depression. Neuroses have no organic origins and are believed to be a product of unconscious processes resulting from internal conflicts. Compare PSYCHOSIS.
- Personality trait that contrasts adjustment or emotional stability with maladjustment. Experience of anxiety, anger, disgust, sadness, embarrassment, and a variety of other negative emotions.