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| Major depressive disorder |
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| an all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem, and by loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities |
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| a person experiences a major depressive episode on top of the already-existing condition of dysthymia |
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| Seasonal affective disorder |
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| mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer,[1] spring or autumn year after year. |
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| a psychological state characterized by general lack of drive, or motivation to pursue meaningful goals. A person may show little participation in work or have little interest in socializing. They may sit still for long periods of time.[1] It is commonly seen in patients with schizophrenia |
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| "poverty of speech" is a general lack of additional, unprompted content seen in normal speech. As a symptom, it is commonly seen in patients suffering from schizophrenia, and is considered as a negative symptom |
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| a physical symptom observed in speech that tends to occur in situations where a person is experiencing high anxiety |
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| a thought disorder characterized by discourse consisting of a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas. The frame of reference often changes from one sentence to the next |
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| a state of neurogenic motor immobility |
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| Schizophreniform disorder |
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| a mental disorder diagnosed when symptoms of schizophrenia are present for a significant portion of the time within a one-month period, but signs of disruption are not present for the full six months required for the diagnosis of schizophrenia |
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| Delusional disorder is an uncommon psychiatric condition in which patients present with circumscribed symptoms of non-bizarre delusions, but with the absence of prominent hallucinations and no thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect |
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| a period of psychosis whose duration is generally shorter, non re-occurring, and not better accounted for by another condition. |
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| a person's private sense of, and subjective experience of, their own gender |
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| sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considered to be of a private nature. |
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| act of exposing in a public or semi-public context those parts of one's body that are not normally exposed – specifically the genitals or buttocks of a man or woman, or the breasts of a woman. |
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| a psychiatric diagnosis applied to those who are thought to have an excessive sexual or erotic interest in cross-dressing |
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| personality type who may be male or female characterized by the individual deriving pleasure and gratification from INFLICTING physical pain and/or humiliation |
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| individual deriving pleasure and gratification from RECIEVING physical pain and/or humiliation |
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| is an approach to mental health treatment that uses the principles of behavior modification, which emerged from the applied behavior analysis literature to assist people in making improvements in their behavior or inner experience. |
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