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| deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors |
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| attention deficit disorder |
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| a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 or one or more of three key symptoms; extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity |
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| the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured often through treatment in a hospital |
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| the american psychiatric association's diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders |
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| psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistant anxiety, or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in state of automatic nervous system arousal |
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| an anxiety disorder marker by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pains, choking, or other frightening sensations |
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| an anxiety disorder marker by a persistant, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation |
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| obsessive compulsive disorder |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions |
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| post traumatic stress disorder |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a 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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| psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic form without apparent physical cause |
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| a rare somatoform in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found |
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| a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease |
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| disorders in which a conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. |
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| psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes. |
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| major depressive disorder |
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| a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of a drug or medical condition, two or more weeks or significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest in activities |
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| a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, widely optimistic state |
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| a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania |
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| a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions |
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| false beliefs, often of persecutions or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders |
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| psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning |
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| antisocial personality disorder |
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| a personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience from wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist |
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