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| suggests that a person may be predisposed for mental disorder that remains unexpressed until triggered by stress |
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| Generalized anxiety disorder |
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| disorder characterized by chronic excessive worry accompanied by three or more of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, concentration problems, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance |
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| idea that people are instinctively predisposed toward certain fears |
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| Obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| diorder in which repetitive, intrusive thoughts (obsesssions) and ritualistic behaviors (complusions) designed to fend off those thoughts interfere significantly with an individual's functioning |
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| Dissociative identity disorder |
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| presence within an individual of tow or more distinct identities that at different times take control of the individual's behavior |
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| disorder that involves same symptoms as in depression only less severe, but the symptoms lasts longer, persisting for at least 2 years |
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| unstable emotional condition characterized by cycles of abnormal, persistent high mood (mania) and low mood (depression) |
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| disorder charcaterized by the profound disruption of basic psychological processes, a distorder perception of reality altered or blunted emotion, and disturbances in thought, motibation and behavior |
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| emotional and social withdrawal, apathy, poverty of speech and other indications of the absence or insufficency of normal behavior, motivation, and emotion |
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| Antisocial personality disorder |
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| pervasive pattern of disregard for an violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood |
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