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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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haveing trouble dealing with family, friends, and keeping relationships.
Symptoms: muscular tension and strained face |
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feeling of sudden helpless terror
Symptoms: smothering, chocking, and difficulty breathing |
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| Obsessive compulsive disorder |
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Obsession- an uncontrollable and repeated pattern of thought
Compulsion- repeatedly perfromed irrational actions
in the category of anexiety disorders |
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| post-traumatic stress disorder |
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a person who has a experienced a traumatic event feels severe and long lasting effects. The horrible experience comes back to haunt them in dreams or flashbacks
in the anxiety category |
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| anxiety focused on particular objects, animals, or activity or situations that seems out of proportion to the real danger |
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changing emotional difficulties into a loss of specific voluntary body function
in category somatoform disorders |
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a person of good health that has imaginary ailments. This type of person spends a lot of time looking for serious illnesses.
somatoform disorder |
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| paranoid schizophrenias type |
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Definition
involves hallucinations and delusions
hallucinations- perceptions that have no direct external cause (seeing or hearing things that are not there)
delusions- a false belief that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence. |
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| disorganized schizophrenias type |
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includes incoherent languages, inapporpriate emotions
eaxmple: giggling for no apparent reason |
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| catatonic schizophrenias type |
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many remain motionless for a long period of time
limbs may remain in unusual positions |
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| undifferentiated schizophrenias type |
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Definition
| encomasses the basic symptoms of all types |
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| remission schizophrenias type |
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Definition
| lable given those whose symptoms have eased or gone away by medicines |
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| major depressive disorder |
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Definition
mood disorder
severe form of lowered mood in which a person experiences feelings of worthless and apathy
examples: feeling of saddness, suicidal despair |
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mood disorder
disorder in which an individual alternates between feelings of mania and depression |
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SAD
(seasonal affect disorder) |
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mood disorder
depression that develops due to lack of sunlight |
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| memory loss that has no biological explanation and most often realtes to a traumatic event anxiety |
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| a dissorder in which a person suddenly and unexpectedly travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| a person who exhibits two or more personalities each with its own pattern of thinking and behaving |
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| antisocial personality disorder |
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| displays pattern of disregarding and violating the rights of others without feeling remorse |
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| dependent personality disorder |
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| displays a pattern of submissiveness and excessive need to be taken care of |
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| histrionic personality disorder |
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| displays excessive emotions, exessively seeks attention |
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| narcissitic personality disorder |
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| condition in which people have an infated sense of self-importance and an extreme preoccupation with themselves |
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| paranoid personality disorder |
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| distrusts others and perceives others as having evil motives |
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| schizotypical personality disorder |
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| feels intense discomfort in close relationships; has distorted thinking and eccentric behavior |
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