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Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat combined with a refusal to maintain even a minimally low body weight.
Treatment: behavioral & family therapy |
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Uncontrollable binge eating and efforts to prevent resulting weight gain by using inappropriate behaviors such as self-induced vomiting and excessive exercise.
Treatment: behavioral & family therapy |
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EDNOS; Recurrent episodes of binge eating, eating faster than normal, eating when not hungry, eating in private, guilt or disgust after overeating.
Treatment: behavioral & family therapy |
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Rare, child with regurgitate food, severe weight loss, can affect teeth
Cause: biological
Treatment: behavioral/keep person walking after they've eaten |
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| Eating non-nutritive substances, can be fatal |
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| Difficulty in initiating or maintaining sleep |
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| Irresistible attacks of sleep with loss of muscle tone |
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Sleep disorders that involve abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams.
Includes: sleepwalking, night terrors, teeth grinding, sleep sex |
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| Broad classification of sleeping disorders that make it difficult to get to sleep, or to remain sleeping |
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| Sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing or instances of shallow or infrequent breathing during sleep. |
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| Parasomnia disorder that causes feelings of terror or dread, typically occurring in the first few hours of sleep. |
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| Sleep State Misperception |
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| When a person mistakenly perceives their sleep as wakefulness. |
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| Paranoid Personality Disorder |
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| Individuals have a pervasive suspiciousness and distrust of others, leading to numerous interpersonal difficulties. |
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| Schizotypal Personality Disorder |
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| Individuals are excessively introverted and have pervasive social and interpersonal deficits,have cognitive and perceptual distortions, oddities and eccentricities in their communication & behavior. |
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| Histrionic Personality Disorder |
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| Excessive attention-seeking behavior and emotionality. |
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| Narcissistic Personality Disorder |
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| Exaggerated sense of self-importence, a preoccupation with being admired, and a lack of empathy for the feelings of others. |
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| Borderline Personality Disorder |
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| Show a pattern of behavior characterized by impulsivity and instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and moods. |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder |
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| Perfectionism & an excessive concern with maintaining order and control. |
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| Dependent Personality Disorder |
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| Individuals show and extreme need to be taken care of, which leads to clinging and submissive behavior. Also show acute fear at the possibility of separation or being alone because they see themselves as inept. |
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| Avoidant Personality Disorder |
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| Individuals show extreme social inhibition and introversion, leading to lifelong patterns of limited social relationships and reluctance to enter into social interactions. |
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| Antisocial Personality Disorder |
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| Individuals continually violate and show disregard for the rights of others thought deceitful, aggressive, or antisocial behavior, typically without remorse or loyalty to anyone. |
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| Schizoid Personality Disorder |
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| Individuals are usually unable to form social relationships and usually lack much interest in doing so. They typically do not have good friends. They are unable to express feelings and are seen by others as cold and distant. Lack social skills and can be classifies as loners or introverts. |
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| Includes more severe forms of substance-use disorders and usually involves marker physiological need for increasing amounts of a substance to achieve the desired effects. Dependence in these disorders means that an individual will show a tolerance for a drug and/or experience withdrawal symptoms when the drug is unavailable. |
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| Generally involves an excessive use of a substance resulting in (1) potentially hazardous behavior such as driving while intoxicated or (2) continued use despite a persistent, social, psychological, occupational, or health problem. |
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| Behavior in which individual feels the pathological need for a substance |
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| Physical symptoms such as sweating, tremors, and tension that accompany abstinence from the drug. |
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| The need for increased amounts of a substance to achieve the desired effects- results from biochemical changes in the body that affect the rate of metabolism and elimination of the substance from the body. |
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| Medication that causes violent vomiting when follow by ingestion of alcohol. It may be administered to prevent an immediate return to drinking. |
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| High blood pressure medication that is used to treat withdrawal from alcohol, nicotine, or benzodiazepine's. |
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| Treatment of Substance Abuse |
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Objectives include: detoxification, physical rehabilitation, control over alcohol-abuse, individual realizing they have a problem.
Treatments: medications to block desire, medications to reduce side effects of withdrawal, group therapy, environmental intervention, behavioral & cognitive-behavioral therapy, controlled drinking, abstinence, Alcoholics Anonymous. |
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| Involuntary spasm of the muscles at the entrance to, and outer third of, the vagina that prevents penetration and sexual intercourse. |
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| Impotence (Male Erectile Disorder) |
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| Inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for successful sexual intercourse. |
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| Frigidity (Female Sexual Arousal Disorder) |
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| The absence of feelings of sexual arousal and an unresponsiveness to most or all forms of erotic stimulation. |
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| Individual has recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors that generally involve nonhuman objects, the suffering or humiliation of oneself or one's partner, or children or other non-consenting persons. |
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| Heterosexual men who experience recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors that involve cross-dressing as female. |
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| Recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors involving the observation or unsuspecting females who are undressing or of couples engaging in sexual activity. |
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| Sexual excitement at rubbing one's genitals against, or touching, the body of a non consenting person. |
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| Recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors that involve inflicting psychological or physical pain on another individual. |
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| Recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors involving the act of being humiliated, beaten, or bound, often in a ritualistic pattern of behavior. |
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| Adult has recurrent, intense sexual urges or fantasies about sexual activities with a prepubertal child; acting on these desires is not necessary for the diagnosis. |
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| Occurs in adults with gender identity disorder who desire to change their sex, and surgical advances have made this goal partially feasible. |
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