67 diagnoses found

Acute Stress Disorder

F43.0

Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

This is a short-term response to a traumatic event characterized by intrusive symptoms, negative mood, dissociation, and avoidance. It occurs within one month after the trauma.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Exposure to traumatic event
  • Presence of 9 or more symptoms from 5 categories of intrusion and dissociation
  • Duration is 3 days to 1 month after trauma exposure
  • Causes clinically significant distress or impairment

Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Anxiety and Depressed Mood

F43.23

Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

This occurs when emotional or behavioral symptoms develop in response to an identifiable stressor within three months of its onset. The symptoms represent an exaggerated reaction that exceeds what is expected.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Symptoms arise within 3 months of a stressor
  • Distress is out of proportion to the severity of the stressor
  • Significant impairment in social or work functioning
  • Symptoms do not represent bereavement
  • Once the stressor terminates, symptoms do not persist beyond 6 months

Agoraphobia

F40.00

Anxiety Disorders

Agoraphobia is a marked fear or anxiety regarding situations where escape might be difficult or help unavailable if panic symptoms occur. Individuals often avoid these places or require a companion to endure them.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Fear of at least two specific situations like public transport or open spaces
  • Avoidance due to concern that escape might be difficult
  • Fear is disproportionate to actual danger
  • Symptoms persist for at least 6 months

Alcohol Use Disorder

F10.20

Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders

A problematic pattern of alcohol use leading to significant distress or impairment. It involves a strong desire to consume alcohol and difficulty limiting intake despite adverse consequences.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Tolerance or withdrawal symptoms
  • Persistent desire to cut down
  • Time spent obtaining or using alcohol
  • Use despite social or interpersonal problems

Alzheimer's Disease, Major Neurocognitive Disorder

G30.9

Neurocognitive Disorders

A progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by the gradual decline of memory and cognitive function. It is caused by the accumulation of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Significant decline in memory and learning
  • Steadily progressive, gradual decline
  • No evidence of mixed etiology
  • Deficits in executive function or language

Anorexia Nervosa

F50.01

Feeding and Eating Disorders

A severe condition characterized by extreme restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to significantly low body weight. Individuals experience an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted perception of their own body size or shape.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Restriction of caloric intake leading to low body weight
  • Intense fear of gaining weight
  • Disturbance in body image perception

Antisocial Personality Disorder

F60.2

Personality Disorders

Individuals with this disorder show a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others. This is often accompanied by a lack of remorse and manipulative behavior.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Failure to conform to social norms regarding lawful behavior
  • Deceitfulness and manipulative behavior
  • Irritability and aggressiveness
  • Consistent irresponsibility and lack of remorse

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

F90.2

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

A persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with daily functioning or development. Symptoms must be inconsistent with the individual's developmental level and occur across different environments.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Persistent pattern of inattention
  • Persistent pattern of hyperactivity-impulsivity
  • Symptoms present before age 12
  • Manifests in at least two settings

Autism Spectrum Disorder

F84.0

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

A developmental condition characterized by significant challenges in social communication and interaction, alongside restricted or repetitive patterns of behavior. Symptoms typically emerge early in development and result in impairment across multiple life settings.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Persistent social-communication deficits
  • Restricted, repetitive behavior patterns
  • Symptoms present in early developmental period
  • Clinically significant functional impairment

Binge-Eating Disorder

F50.81

Feeding and Eating Disorders

Characterized by recurring episodes of eating large amounts of food in a discrete period with a sense of being unable to stop. Unlike bulimia, these episodes are not followed by regular compensatory behaviors, often resulting in significant distress.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Eating objectively large amounts of food
  • Loss of control during eating
  • Absence of regular compensatory behaviors

Bipolar I Disorder

F31.11

Bipolar and Related Disorders

A condition requiring the occurrence of at least one manic episode in the individual's lifetime. Manic episodes involve a distinct period of abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and increased energy.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Occurrence of at least one manic episode
  • Manic episode lasts at least one week
  • Marked impairment in social or occupational functioning
  • Not due to substance use or medical condition

Bipolar II Disorder

F31.9

Bipolar and Related Disorders

Characterized by a pattern of depressive episodes and hypomanic episodes. Unlike Bipolar I, the individual has never experienced a full manic episode.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • At least one hypomanic episode
  • At least one major depressive episode
  • No history of full manic episodes
  • Clinically significant distress

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

F42

Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Patients with this disorder are preoccupied with perceived flaws in their physical appearance that are not apparent to others. This leads to repetitive behaviors like checking mirrors or excessive grooming.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Preoccupation with one or more perceived appearance defects
  • Performance of repetitive behaviors or mental comparisons
  • Preoccupation causes clinically significant distress
  • Symptoms are not better explained by an eating disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

F60.3

Personality Disorders

Marked by a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects. It often includes marked impulsivity and chronic feelings of emptiness.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment
  • Pattern of unstable and intense relationships
  • Identity disturbance or unstable self-image
  • Chronic feelings of emptiness and suicidal behavior

Brief Psychotic Disorder

F23

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

An acute and transient disturbance involving sudden onset of psychotic symptoms. The episode lasts more than one day but less than one month, with an eventual return to full premorbid functioning.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Presence of one or more psychotic symptoms
  • Duration from one day to one month
  • Full return to premorbid functioning
  • Not better explained by other mental health conditions

Bulimia Nervosa

F50.2

Feeding and Eating Disorders

This disorder involves recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors to prevent weight gain. Patients feel a lack of control during binges and base their self-evaluation excessively on their weight and shape.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Recurrent binge eating episodes
  • Compensatory behaviors like purging or excessive exercise
  • Over-evaluation of body shape and weight in self-image

Conduct Disorder

F91.1

Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders

This condition involves a persistent pattern of violating the basic rights of others or major societal norms. Individuals often display aggression toward people or animals and lack empathy or remorse.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Aggression toward people or animals
  • Destruction of property
  • Deceitfulness or theft
  • Serious violation of rules

Conversion Disorder

F44.4

Somatic Symptom Related Disorders

Also known as functional neurological symptom disorder, this involves symptoms that suggest a neurological condition but cannot be explained by medical pathology. There is evidence of incompatibility between symptoms and known neurological disease.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • One or more symptoms of altered voluntary motor or sensory function
  • Clinical evidence of incompatibility between symptom and recognized medical condition
  • Not better explained by another medical or mental disorder
  • Causes significant clinical impairment

Cyclothymic Disorder

F34.0

Bipolar and Related Disorders

A chronic, fluctuating mood disturbance involving numerous periods of hypomanic symptoms and depressive symptoms. These periods do not meet the full diagnostic criteria for manic or major depressive episodes.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Hypomanic and depressive symptoms for 2+ years
  • Symptoms present at least half the time
  • No periods of symptom remission longer than 2 months
  • Never met criteria for major depressive or manic episode

Delayed Ejaculation

F52.0

Sexual Dysfunctions

A sexual dysfunction in males marked by a significant delay in, or total absence of, ejaculation during sexual activity. This causes marked personal distress and persists despite the individual's desire for sexual activity.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Marked delay in ejaculation
  • Marked infrequency or absence of ejaculation
  • Persistent symptoms for about six months

Delusional Disorder

F22

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

This disorder is defined by the presence of one or more delusions that last for one month or longer. Aside from the impact of the delusion, the individual's functioning is not markedly impaired and behavior is not obviously bizarre.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • One or more delusions lasting 1+ months
  • Criterion A for schizophrenia never met
  • Functioning not markedly impaired
  • Behavior not obviously bizarre

Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder

F48.1

Dissociative Disorders

This condition involves persistent experiences of feeling detached from oneself or one's surroundings. Individuals may feel like an observer of their own mental processes or experience the world as dreamlike.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Persistent experience of depersonalization or derealization
  • Reality testing remains intact during these experiences
  • Symptoms cause significant distress or impairment
  • Not attributable to substance use or other medical condition

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

F34.81

Depressive Disorders

A childhood condition involving severe, recurrent temper outbursts that are grossly out of proportion to the situation. Between outbursts, the child exhibits a persistently irritable or angry mood.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Severe, recurrent temper outbursts
  • Inconsistent with developmental level
  • Persistent irritable mood between outbursts
  • Symptoms present in at least two settings

Dissociative Amnesia

F44.0

Dissociative Disorders

Patients experience an inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too extensive to be considered ordinary forgetfulness.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Inability to recall important autobiographical information
  • Symptoms cause clinically significant distress
  • Disturbance is not attributable to a substance or medical condition
  • Not better explained by other dissociative disorders

Dissociative Identity Disorder

F44.81

Dissociative Disorders

This disorder involves the presence of two or more distinct personality states or identities that recurrently take control of the individual's behavior. There are significant gaps in memory regarding daily events.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Disruption of identity with at least two distinct personality states
  • Recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events or personal information
  • Symptoms cause significant clinical distress
  • Not a normal part of a broadly accepted cultural or religious practice

Encopresis

F98.0

Elimination Disorders

The repeated passage of feces into inappropriate places, such as clothing or the floor, in children who have reached an age where bowel control should be expected. It may occur with or without constipation and overflow incontinence.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Repeated passing of feces in wrong places
  • Chronological age of at least four years
  • Occurs at least once per month for three months

Enuresis

F98.1

Elimination Disorders

The repeated voiding of urine into bed or clothes, whether intentional or accidental, in children past the age when bladder control is typically achieved. It is clinically significant if it causes distress or impairs functioning in daily settings.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Repeated voiding of urine
  • Chronological age of at least five years
  • Occurs at least twice weekly for three months

Erectile Disorder

F52.21

Sexual Dysfunctions

A condition in which a male experiences difficulty obtaining or maintaining an erection until the completion of sexual activity. The symptoms cause significant clinical distress and occur in the majority of sexual encounters.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Difficulty obtaining erection
  • Difficulty maintaining erection
  • Marked distress and impairment in sexual activity

Exhibitionistic Disorder

F65.2

Paraphilic Disorders

Characterized by recurrent and intense sexual arousal from exposing one's genitals to an unsuspecting person. The behavior typically causes distress or involves non-consenting individuals.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Sexual arousal from exposing genitals to unsuspecting others
  • Acting on urges or significant distress
  • Duration of at least 6 months
  • Not better explained by other disorders

Female Orgasmic Disorder

F52.31

Sexual Dysfunctions

A condition in women characterized by a delay, infrequency, or absence of orgasm following normal sexual stimulation. The condition is persistent and causes the individual significant personal or relational distress.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Marked delay or absence of orgasm
  • Reduced intensity of orgasmic sensations
  • Persistent symptoms lasting six months

Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder

F52.22

Sexual Dysfunctions

A lack of or significant reduction in sexual interest or arousal in females, often manifesting as low sexual desire or a lack of physical response. This must cause significant personal distress and persist over time.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Absent or reduced interest in sexual activity
  • Absent or reduced sexual arousal
  • Significant personal distress regarding symptoms

Frontotemporal Major Neurocognitive Disorder

G31.83

Neurocognitive Disorders

This condition is marked by the degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Patients typically present with profound changes in personality, social behavior, or language capabilities.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Prominent decline in social cognition or executive abilities
  • Apathy or disinhibition
  • Hyperorality or dietary changes
  • Marked decline in language production or comprehension

Frotteuristic Disorder

F65.81

Paraphilic Disorders

Involves recurrent sexual arousal from touching or rubbing against a non-consenting person. This behavior is typically carried out in crowded public places.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Sexual arousal from touching non-consenting persons
  • Acting on urges or significant distress
  • Duration of at least 6 months
  • Not better explained by other disorders

Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents/Adults

F64.0

Gender Dysphoria

A marked incongruence between an individual's experienced gender and their assigned gender at birth. This discrepancy is associated with significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Incongruence between gender experience and assigned sex
  • Strong desire to be treated as another gender
  • Duration of at least six months

Gender Dysphoria in Children

F64.2

Gender Dysphoria

The distress experienced by a child due to the mismatch between their gender identity and their sex assigned at birth. The child often expresses a strong desire to be the other gender or identifies as a gender different from their birth sex.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Strong desire to be of another gender
  • Preference for cross-gender roles in play
  • Duration of at least six months

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

F41.1

Anxiety Disorders

This disorder involves persistent and excessive worry about various life domains such as work or health. The anxiety is difficult to control and leads to significant distress or functional impairment.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Excessive anxiety occurring most days for at least 6 months
  • Difficulty controlling the worry
  • Restlessness or feeling keyed up
  • Muscle tension
  • Sleep disturbance

Histrionic Personality Disorder

F60.4

Personality Disorders

Defined by a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior. These individuals are often uncomfortable when they are not the center of attention.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Uncomfortable when not the center of attention
  • Interaction characterized by sexually seductive behavior
  • Rapidly shifting and shallow expressions of emotion
  • Uses physical appearance to draw attention

Hoarding Disorder

F42

Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

This involves a persistent difficulty discarding possessions regardless of their actual value, resulting in the accumulation of items that clutter living spaces. The behavior compromises the intended use of the home.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Persistent difficulty discarding possessions
  • Need to save items and distress associated with discarding them
  • Accumulation leads to congestion of living areas
  • Causes significant impairment in social or occupational life

Illness Anxiety Disorder

F45.22

Somatic Symptom Related Disorders

This involves a preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious, undiagnosed illness despite the absence of significant physical symptoms. The focus is on the threat of disease rather than the symptoms themselves.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness
  • Somatic symptoms are not present or are very mild
  • High level of health anxiety
  • Excessive health-related behaviors like checking for signs of disease

Insomnia Disorder

G47.00

Sleep-Wake Disorders

A persistent difficulty with sleep initiation, duration, or quality despite having adequate opportunity to sleep. This condition causes significant functional impairment during the day and is not better explained by another sleep or mental health condition.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Difficulty falling or staying asleep
  • Occurs despite adequate sleep opportunity
  • Causes daytime impairment or distress

Intermittent Explosive Disorder

F63.81

Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders

Characterized by recurring outbursts representing a failure to control aggressive impulses. These outbursts are grossly disproportionate to the provocation or any triggering psychosocial stressor.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Verbal or physical aggression twice weekly for 3 months
  • Three behavioral outbursts causing damage in 12 months
  • Grossly disproportionate response
  • Not better explained by another mental disorder

Language Disorder

F80.1

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

This condition involves persistent difficulties in the acquisition and use of language across modalities due to deficits in comprehension or production. The individual's language abilities are substantially below those expected for their age.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Reduced vocabulary
  • Limited sentence structure
  • Impairments in discourse
  • Language abilities below age expectations

Major Depressive Disorder

F32.9

Depressive Disorders

A mood disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood or loss of interest in activities. It causes significant distress and interferes with the individual's daily functioning.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Depressed mood or loss of interest
  • Symptoms present nearly every day for 2 weeks
  • Significant distress or impairment
  • Not attributed to substance use or medical condition

Major Neurocognitive Disorder Due to Traumatic Brain Injury

F02.80

Neurocognitive Disorders

This diagnosis applies when neurocognitive deficits persist following a traumatic brain injury. The severity and nature of the cognitive impairment often correlate with the impact and site of the initial trauma.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Evidence of traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness
  • Persistence of symptoms beyond the acute post-injury period
  • Disturbances in attention and executive function
  • Memory deficits and disorientation

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

F60.81

Personality Disorders

Characterized by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity and a constant need for admiration. Individuals with this condition typically display a lack of empathy and a sense of entitlement.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Grandiose sense of self-importance
  • Preoccupation with fantasies of success or power
  • Requires excessive admiration
  • Interpersonal exploitation and lack of empathy

Narcolepsy

G47.419

Sleep-Wake Disorders

A neurological condition involving the brain's inability to regulate sleep-wake cycles, resulting in uncontrollable daytime sleep attacks. Patients may also experience sudden loss of muscle tone triggered by strong emotions.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Recurrent periods of irresistible need to sleep
  • Episodes of cataplexy
  • Hypocretin deficiency or short REM latency

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

F42.2

Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

OCD involves recurrent, intrusive thoughts that cause anxiety, followed by repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed to neutralize the distress. These behaviors are time-consuming and interfere with daily functioning.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both
  • Obsessions are intrusive and unwanted thoughts
  • Compulsions are repetitive behaviors or mental acts
  • Behaviors aim to reduce distress or prevent dreaded events
  • Symptoms consume significant time or cause impairment

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hypopnea

G47.33

Sleep-Wake Disorders

A respiratory-driven sleep disorder where breathing is repeatedly interrupted during sleep due to airway blockage. This leads to fragmented sleep and excessive daytime sleepiness or fatigue.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Evidence of airway obstruction via polysomnography
  • Nocturnal breathing disturbances
  • Daytime sleepiness or unrefreshing sleep

Opioid Use Disorder

F11.20

Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders

This disorder involves the compulsive use of opioids despite significant health or social consequences. It typically includes physical dependence and severe cravings that interfere with daily functioning.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Recurrent use despite physical hazards
  • Failure to fulfill major role obligations
  • Craving or strong desire to use
  • Social or interpersonal problems related to use

Oppositional Defiant Disorder

F91.3

Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders

A frequent and persistent pattern of angry, irritable mood, argumentative behavior, or vindictiveness. It creates significant problems in interactions with authority figures or peers.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Angry and irritable mood
  • Argumentative and defiant behavior
  • Spiteful or vindictive attitude
  • Disturbance associated with distress in social context

Pain Disorder (Somatic Symptom Disorder specifier)

F45.41

Somatic Symptom Related Disorders

This is a condition where somatic symptom disorder is predominantly characterized by persistent, severe pain. The pain causes extreme distress and interferes with routine functioning.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Focus on pain as the primary somatic symptom
  • Disproportionate thoughts or feelings about the intensity of the pain
  • Persistent high level of anxiety about the pain
  • Symptoms lasting longer than 6 months

Panic Disorder

F41.0

Anxiety Disorders

Characterized by recurrent, unexpected panic attacks that reach a peak within minutes. Patients experience persistent concern about future attacks or significant behavioral changes to avoid them.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Recurrent unexpected panic attacks
  • Persistent worry about additional attacks or their consequences
  • Palpitations or accelerated heart rate
  • Sweating or trembling
  • Chest pain or dizziness

Paranoid Personality Disorder

F60.0

Personality Disorders

This disorder involves a pattern of pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others. Individuals interpret others' motives as malevolent, leading them to avoid intimacy and hold grudges.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Suspects others are exploiting or deceiving them
  • Reluctance to confide in others due to fear of betrayal
  • Reads hidden demeaning meanings into benign remarks
  • Persistent grudges and quickness to react with anger

Pathological Gambling

F63.0

Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders

Now classified as a gambling disorder, it involves persistent and recurrent problematic gambling behavior. This leads to clinically significant impairment, often involving financial ruin and lying to conceal the extent of involvement.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Need to gamble with increasing amounts of money
  • Restlessness when attempting to stop
  • Lying to conceal involvement
  • Jeopardizing relationships or career

Pedophilic Disorder

F65.0

Paraphilic Disorders

A condition involving intense and recurrent sexual urges or fantasies involving prepubescent children. The individual has acted on these urges or feels significant distress because of them.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Sexual urges involving prepubescent children
  • Acting on urges or distress causing impairment
  • Individual is at least 16 years old
  • At least 5 years older than the victim

Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)

F34.1

Depressive Disorders

A continuous, long-term state of depression that lasts for at least two years. The symptoms are generally less severe than those of major depression but are more persistent.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Depressed mood for at least 2 years
  • Presence of additional depressive symptoms
  • Symptoms not absent for more than 2 months
  • Criteria for major depressive episode may be met continuously

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

F43.10

Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

PTSD develops following exposure to a traumatic event, involving involuntary memories, avoidance of reminders, and negative alterations in cognition and mood. It includes marked physiological hyperarousal.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Exposure to actual or threatened death or injury
  • Intrusive symptoms like flashbacks or nightmares
  • Avoidance of trauma-related stimuli
  • Negative changes in mood or cognition
  • Marked arousal and reactivity symptoms

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

F32.81

Depressive Disorders

A severe form of premenstrual syndrome characterized by emotional and physical symptoms that emerge in the week before menses. Symptoms improve rapidly after the onset of menstruation and are minimal post-menses.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Symptoms present in final week before menses
  • Significant mood lability or irritability
  • Improvement after onset of menses
  • Significant distress or functional interference

Schizoaffective Disorder

F25.0

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

A condition in which an individual experiences both the symptoms of schizophrenia and a major mood episode, such as mania or depression. Psychotic symptoms must persist for at least two weeks in the absence of a major mood episode.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Concurrent mood episode and schizophrenia symptoms
  • Delusions or hallucinations for 2+ weeks without mood symptoms
  • Mood symptoms present for majority of duration
  • Not due to substance use or other conditions

Schizophrenia

F20.9

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

A chronic mental health condition marked by distortions in reality, including hallucinations and delusions. It involves a decline in occupational, social, or personal functioning persisting for at least six months.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Presence of delusions
  • Presence of hallucinations
  • Disorganized speech or behavior
  • Negative symptoms
  • Duration of at least six months

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

F21

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

A pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with close relationships, along with cognitive or perceptual distortions. It represents a sub-threshold expression of the schizophrenia spectrum.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Ideas of reference
  • Odd beliefs or magical thinking
  • Unusual perceptual experiences
  • Social anxiety and eccentricity

Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Use Disorder

F13.20

Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders

This disorder involves the problematic use of medications such as benzodiazepines or barbiturates. It leads to significant impairment through misuse, tolerance, and physical withdrawal symptoms.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Taking substance in larger amounts than intended
  • Persistent desire to cut down
  • Significant time spent using or recovering
  • Continued use despite social or physical problems

Social Anxiety Disorder

F40.10

Anxiety Disorders

This condition features an intense fear of social situations involving potential scrutiny by others. Individuals fear that their actions will lead to negative evaluation or humiliation.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Fear of social interactions or performance situations
  • Concern about being judged or rejected
  • Social situations almost always provoke anxiety
  • Avoidance of social situations
  • Distress is out of proportion to actual social threat

Somatic Symptom Disorder

F45.1

Somatic Symptom Related Disorders

Individuals experience distressing physical symptoms accompanied by excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors related to the health concerns. The preoccupation takes a toll on the person's daily life.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • One or more somatic symptoms causing distress
  • Excessive thoughts or behaviors related to symptoms
  • High level of anxiety about health
  • Persistent state of being symptomatic typically more than 6 months

Speech Sound Disorder

F80.0

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Persistent difficulty with speech sound production that prevents verbal communication of messages. This is not due to physical or neurological causes and interferes with academic or social performance.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Persistent difficulty with speech sound production
  • Limits effective communication
  • Interference with social or academic participation
  • Onset in early developmental period

Unspecified Mental Disorder

F99

Other Mental Disorders

Used when symptoms characteristic of a mental disorder cause clinical distress but do not meet the full criteria for any specific disorder. This is a temporary classification until more information is gathered.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Symptoms cause clinical distress or impairment
  • Does not meet criteria for specific category
  • Insufficient information for a specific diagnosis
  • Use reserved for clinical settings with limited data

Unspecified Neurocognitive Disorder

F03.90

Neurocognitive Disorders

Applied when there is clear evidence of a cognitive decline, but the etiology cannot be definitively determined. It is often used in cases where diagnostic testing is incomplete.

Key Diagnostic Criteria

  • Significant cognitive decline from previous level
  • Deficits in one or more cognitive domains
  • Insufficient information to attribute to a specific cause
  • Causes significant impairment in daily functioning