Learn the 13 Categories of Mental Disorders: A 68-Card Study Guide

The Flip It deck HP7698 — Mental Disorders: Categories & Treatment (68 cards) is a taxonomy deck wearing a clinical title. About sixty cards map diagnostic families and their definitions; exactly five mention treatment. Once you accept that, it becomes one of the fastest ways to get the whole DSM-5-TR / ICD-11 landscape into long-term memory.

What the cards actually look like

The thirteen families you will cover

Anxiety disorders (specific phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia) · mood disorders (major/unipolar depression, dysthymia, bipolar disorder) · psychotic disorders (schizophrenia, delusional disorder, schizoaffective disorder, schizotypy) · personality disorders (paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, anxious-avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive) · neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, motor and communication disorders) · eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, exercise bulimia, binge eating disorder) · sleep disorders (insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, REM sleep behavior disorder, restless legs) · impulse control disorders (kleptomania, pyromania, gambling) · substance use disorders · dissociative disorders (depersonalization-derealization, dissociative identity disorder) · cognitive disorders (delirium, mild and major neurocognitive disorder) · somatoform disorders (somatization, conversion, body dysmorphic disorder, neurasthenia) · factitious disorders. Plus onset windows, ICD-11's single dimensional personality diagnosis, and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology.

Two cards to rewrite before your first session

1. The anxiety card is a DSM-IV list. Card 21 groups obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder under anxiety disorders. DSM-5 split them out in 2013: OCD sits in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (with hoarding, trichotillomania, excoriation, body dysmorphic disorder) and PTSD in Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders (with acute stress disorder and the adjustment disorders). Since another card tells you DSM-5-TR is the current manual, leaving this one intact means memorizing a contradiction — and it is a guaranteed exam item.

2. Add the cluster letters. Three cards give the personality-disorder clusters by nickname only: eccentric, dramatic or emotional, fear-related. Every exam and every clinician calls them Cluster A, Cluster B and Cluster C. Put the letter on the front of each card ("Cluster B = ?") and you kill three vague cards and gain the vocabulary that actually gets tested.

Two smaller fixes: card 4 announces "six main categories" and the deck then teaches thirteen, so treat it as a warm-up rather than an outline; and one front is truncated to "Sleep disorders associated with", so read it as a fill-in-the-blank.

A three-pass plan

Start with the structural cards alone (definitions, ICD-11 vs DSM-5-TR, dimensional models, P factor). Then take one family per session, naming the family out loud before you flip. Finally, shuffle everything and drill the rare syndromes — they are pure recognition and decay fastest.

Deck HP7698 — Mental Disorders: Categories & Treatment is in your Flip It library at flip-it.app. For the historical backdrop — trepanning, moral treatment, the birth of the DSM — pair it with Abnormal Psychology: History and Models.