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| Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patterns |
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| Concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured. When applied to psychological disorders, assumed these mental illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a psychiatric hospital |
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| Widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. |
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| Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent 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 a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. |
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| Anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or 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 |
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| Anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) |
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| Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
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| Anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience. |
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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 persecution 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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| personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist |
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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 drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities |
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| Mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania |
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| Mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state |
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