Psychiatry Services in Raleigh, North Carolina

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety involves focusing on bad or dangerous things that could happen and worrying fearfully and excessively about them. Anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder, and phobias (extreme or irrational fears of specific things, such as heights).

Bipolar Disorders

Bipolar Disorders are often seen as periods of excessive excitement, activity, and energy followed by periods of depression or anger. Bipolar II Disorder is a bipolar spectrum disorder characterized by at least one episode of hypomania and at least one episode of major depression. Diagnosis for bipolar II disorder requires that the individual must never have experienced a full manic episode.

Depression & Depressive Disorders

Depression symptoms often include feelings of sadness, emptiness, and loneliness even when around people; loss of interest in pleasurable activities; fatigue; irritability; changes in sleep patterns; changes in appetite, and more.

Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders

People with these disorders show symptoms of difficulty with emotional and behavioral self-control. Examples include kleptomania (repeated stealing) and intermittent explosive disorder.

Dissociative Disorders

These disorders disrupt the person’s sense of self, such as dissociative identity disorder and dissociative amnesia.

Feeding and Eating Disorders

These psychiatric disorders are disturbances related to eating, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.

Gender Dysphoria

These disorders stem from the distress that goes with a person’s stated desire to be a different gender. The diagnostic criteria in this group differ somewhat among children, adolescents, and adults.

Neurocognitive Disorders

These psychiatric disorders affect people’s ability to think and reason. The disorders in this group include delirium as well as disorders of thinking and reasoning caused by such conditions or diseases as traumatic brain injury or Alzheimer’s disease.

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Neurodevelopment disorders, like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), typically begin in childhood and are often thought to be genetic, though a lot is unknown as to what causes them. With Qbtech, we can better diagnose ADHD in both children and adults.

Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

People with these disorders experience repeated and unwanted urges, thoughts, or images (obsessions) and feel driven to take repeated actions in response to them (compulsions). Examples include obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), hoarding disorder, and hair-pulling disorder (trichotillomania).

Paraphilic Disorders

Many sexual-interest disorders are included in this group. Examples include sexual sadism disorder, voyeuristic disorder, and pedophilic disorder.

Personality Disorders

A personality disorder involves a lasting pattern of emotional instability and unhealthy behaviors that seriously disrupt daily living and relationships. Examples include borderline, antisocial, and narcissistic personality disorders.

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

Psychotic disorders cause detachment from reality. People with these diagnoses experience delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, and speech. Schizophrenia is probably the best known of these illnesses, although detachment from reality can sometimes affect people with other psychiatric disorders.

Sleep-Wake Disorders

These are severe sleep disorders, including insomnia disorder, nightmare disorder, sleep apnea, and restless legs syndrome.

Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

A person with one of these disorders may have distressing and incapacitating physical symptoms with no apparent medical cause. (“Somatic” means “of the body.”) Examples include illness anxiety disorder, somatic symptom disorder (previously known as hypochondriasis), and factitious disorder.

Tardive Dyskinesia

Some mental health medicines (antipsychotics) can cause abnormal dopamine signaling in the brain, which can lead to uncontrollable body movements from tardive dyskinesia that are unlikely to improve without treatment. TD is not related to movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, or essential tremor disorder, which can also present as involuntary movements.

Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

These psychiatric disorders develop during or after stressful or traumatic life events. Examples include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and acute stress disorder.