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| Legal ruling that a person accused of a crime is not held responsible for the act; defined in most states as the inability to tell the difference between right and wrong at the time the crime as commited |
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| General feeling of aprehension characterized by behavioral, cognitive, or physiological symptoms |
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| Irrational fear of an activity, object, or situation that is out of proportion to the actual danger |
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| The most severe anixety disorder, characterized by intense physiological arousal not related to a specific |
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| Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder |
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| An anxiety disorder characterized by repetitive, irrational, intrusive thoughts, impulses, acts (compulsions) such as checking that doors are locked, or washing hands |
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| Involved multiple physical complaints that do not have a medical explanation and do not suggest a specific known disease |
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| Preoccupation with physical symptoms that are believed to indicate a serious illness despite repeated medical evaluations that find no evidence of the disease |
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| Disorders affecting a function of the mind, such as memory for events, knowledge of ones identity, or conciousness |
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| Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality) |
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| Dissociative disorder in which a person has two or more seperate personalities, usually which alternate |
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| Mood disorder classified by saddness, feelings of guild; changes in sleep; apetite and motor behavior and sometimes thoughts of suicide |
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| Mood disorder in which a person expierences episodes of mania and depression which usually alternate |
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| Physcotic disorder characterized by positive symptoms (excesses) such as delusions, hallucinations, and fluent but diagnosed speech, or negative symptoms (defits) such as flat or plummed affect |
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| long standing, difficult to treat, dysfunctional disorders that are typically first observed in adocelnse |
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| Can start in 40's-50's, first symptoms impaired memory, followed by impaired thought and speech |
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| excessive hyperactivity and difficulty focusing |
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| Eating disorders characterized by self body image |
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