Articles about Psychopathology

Factitious Disorder is a serious mental health condition where individuals deliberately create or exaggerate symptoms to assume the patient role, without external reward....

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder characterised by severe food restriction unrelated to body image, often driven by sensory sensitiv...

Dependent Personality Disorder is a pervasive pattern of excessive reliance on others for care, marked by submissive behaviour, impaired decision-making, and an enduring ...

Other Specified Anxiety Disorder is a diagnostic category for clinically significant anxiety that does not meet full criteria for a specific disorder, allowing clinicians...

Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED) is a clinically significant diagnosis encompassing eating disorder symptoms that do not meet full criteria for a specif...

Unspecified Anxiety Disorder is a provisional diagnosis applied when clinically significant anxiety symptoms are evident but cannot yet be precisely classified, allowing ...

Paraphilic Disorders are defined by persistent, intense sexual interests that become clinically significant when they cause distress, impair functioning, or involve harm ...

Unspecified Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorder is a provisional diagnosis used when clinically significant OCD-related symptoms are present but cannot yet be fully...

When symptoms cause real distress but don’t fit standard diagnoses, clinicians use Other Specified Mental Disorder, a category that recognises clinical significance while...

When eating disorder symptoms are clear but don’t fit neatly into a diagnosis, Unspecified Feeding or Eating Disorder provides a clinical placeholder, prioritising immedi...

Antisocial Personality Disorder is a long-term pattern of disregard for others’ rights, marked by impulsivity, deceit, and lack of remorse. Emerging early in life, it aff...

Delusional Disorder involves fixed, false beliefs held with strong conviction despite contrary evidence. Functioning is often otherwise intact, making the condition subtl...