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| Deviant, distressful, dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors |
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| Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) |
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| Beginning at age 7, children display at least one of the following symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity |
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| Concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and potentially cured |
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| American Psychiatric Association's manual for classifying psychological disorders; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
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| Characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorders |
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| When a person is continuously tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal |
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| Anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread and terror; typically a person experiences chest pain, choking, and other frightening sensations |
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| Anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation |
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| Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) |
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| Anxiety disorder marked by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) |
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| Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
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| Anxiety disorder marked by haunting memories, social withdrawal, jumpiness, insomnia that lingers after a particularly traumatic experience |
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| Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises |
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| When conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, feelings |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) |
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| Rare disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities; formerly called multiple personality disorder |
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| Characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning |
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| Antisocial Personality Disorder |
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| Typically a man, exhibits lack of conscious for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members; may be aggressive, ruthless, cunning |
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| Symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause |
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| Rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical pain for which no physiological basis can be found |
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| Somatoform disorder where a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease |
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| Characterized by emotional extremes |
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| Major Depressive Disorder |
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| Mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods |
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| Mood disorder marked by hyperactive, wildly optimistic state |
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| Mood disorder where a person alternates between hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania; formerly called manic-depressive disorder |
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| Group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized/delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions/actions |
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| False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that accompany psychological disorders |
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