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| extreme disorder of thinking invloces persistent false beliefs. Hallmark of paranoid disorders |
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| false sensory experience suggest mental disorder can be caused by drugs or sensory isolation |
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| disorders of emotions or mood |
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| legal term referring to person unable because of mental disorder or defect conform his or her behavior to the law |
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| pattern of emotions, behaviors, thoughts, |
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| fear of public places and open spaces commonly accompanying panic disorder |
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| mental problem characterized by depression, includes panic disorder, specific phobias, and obsessive compulsive disorder |
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| Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) |
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| developmental disability involving short attention span, distractability, and extreme difficulty in remaining inavtive for any period |
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| developmental disorder marked by disabilities in language, social interaction, and ability to understand another person's state of mind |
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| mental abnormality invloving swing of modds from mania to depression |
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| Diathesis-Stress Hypothesis |
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| reference in schizophrenia, proposal that genetic factors place individual at risk while environmental stress factors tranform potential into actual schizophrenic disorder |
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| psychologically unduced loss of memory of personal information such as one's identity or residence |
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| same as dissociative amnesia but with addition of "flight" from one's home, family, and job |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| condition in which individual displays multiple displays, multiple identities or personalities "multiple personality disorder" |
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| fourth edition of Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by American Psychiatric Association; most widely accepted pdychistric classification system in United States |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| psychological problem charcterized by persistent and pervasive feelings of anxiety, without external cause |
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| form of depression that does not alternate with mania |
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| abnormal disturbance in emotion or mood includes bipolar and unipolar disorder |
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| before DSM-IV term for label of subjective distress or self defeating behavior that did not show signs of brain abnormalities or irrational thinking |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder |
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| condition characterized by patterns of persistent unwanted thoughts and behaviors |
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| disturbance marked by panic attacks with events in persons present experience. victim free of anxiety between panic attacks |
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| condition involving chronic pervasisve, inflexible, and maladaptive pattern of thinking, emotion, social relationships, or impulse control |
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| one of a group of anxiety disorders involving pathological fear of specific object or situation |
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| disorder involving profound disturbances in perception, rational thinking |
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| psychotic disorder involving distortions in thoughts, perceptions, or emotions |
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| Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) |
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| form of depression believed to be caused by deprivation of sunlight |
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