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| What is the prevalence (%) of mental disorders in the US? |
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| What type of symptoms relate to a body sensation such as pain, fatigue, or palpitations? |
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| What type of symptoms relate to mood or anxiety? |
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| What type of symptom lacks an adequate medical or physical explanation? |
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| Unexplained conditions lasting longer than 6 weeks are increasingly recognized as common chronic disorders that should prompt screening for what disorders? |
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| depression, anxiety, or both |
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| Name the patient identifiers for mental health screening. |
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-medically unexplained physical symptoms
-multiple physical or somatic symptoms or "high symptom count"
-high severity of the presenting somatic symptom
-chronic pain
-symptoms for more than 6 weeks
-physician rating as a "difficult encounter"
-recent stress
-low self-rating of health
-high use of healthcare services
-substance abuse |
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| What term encompasses character disorders in which patients have dysfunctional interpersonal coping styles that disrupt and destabilize their relationships, including those with health care providers? |
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| Distrust and suspiciousness are the key characteristics of this personality disorder. |
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| paranoid personality disorder |
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| Detachment from social relationships with a restricted range of emotional expression are key characteristics of what personality disorder? |
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| schizoid personality disorder |
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| This personality disorder is mainly characterized by eccentricities in behavior and cognitive distortions and acute discomfort in close relationships. |
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| schizotypal personality disorder |
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| What personality disorder is characterized by disregard for others and a defect in the experience of compunction or remorse for harming others? |
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| antisocial personality disorder |
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| This personality disorder is characterized by an instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affective regulation. |
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| borderline personality disorder |
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| What personality disorder is described by emotional overreactivity, theatrical behavior, and seductiveness? |
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| histrionic personality disorder |
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| Which personality disorder is described by social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation? |
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| avoidant personality disorder |
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| What personality disorder is characterized by persisting grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy for others? |
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| narcissistic personality disorder |
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| What personality disorder is characterized by submission and clinging behavior? |
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| dependent personality disorder |
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| What personality disorder is described by rigid, detail-oriented behavior, often associated with compulsions to perform tasks repetitively and unnecessarily? |
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| Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder |
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| What term describes alertness or state of awareness of the environment? |
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| What term encompasses the ability to focus or concentrate over time on one task or activity-an inattentive or distractable person with impaired consciousness has difficulty giving a history or responding to questions? |
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| What term is described by the process of registering or recording information, tested by asking for immediate repetition of material, followed by storage or retention of information? |
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| This type of memory covers minutes, hours, or days. |
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| recent or short-term memory |
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| This type of memory refers to intervals of years. |
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| remote or long-term memory |
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| What term includes awareness of personal identity, place, and time and requires both memory and attention? |
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| What term encompasses sensory awareness of objects in the environment and their interrelationships (external stimuli) and also refers to internal stimuli such as dreams and hallucinations? |
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| What term includes the logic, coherence, and relevance of the patient's thought as it leads to selected goals, or how people think? |
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| What term is described by what the patient thinks about, including level of insight and judgment? |
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| What term includes awareness that symptoms or disturbed behaviors are normal or abnormal (for example distinguishing between daydreams and hallucinations that seem real)? |
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| What term includes process of comparing and evaluating alternatives when deciding on a course of action and reflects values that may or may not be based on reality and social conventions or norms? |
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| Which term is characterized by an observable, usually episodic, feeling or tone expressed through voice, facial expression, and demeanor? |
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| What term is described by a more sustained emotion that may color a person's view of the world? |
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| Which term is described by a complex symbolic system for expressing, receiving, and comprehending words? |
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| Which term can be assessed by vocabulary, fund of information, abstract thinking, calculations, construction of objects that have two or three dimensions? |
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| higher cognitive functions |
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| If worries persist for over a 6-month period, what disorder should be considered? |
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| Generalized anxiety disorder |
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| If a patient has recurrent panic attacks followed by a period of anxiety about further attacks, which disorder should be considered? |
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| Which disorder is characterized by avoidance, numbing, and hyperarousal and is often provoked by a traumatic event? |
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| Post-traumatic stress disorder |
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| Which disorder is characterized by marked anticipatory anxiety in social situations? |
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| Which disorder is a common medical illness and frequently coexists with other mental disorders, noteably anxiety disorders and substance abuse? |
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| Which sex is more likely to have major depression? |
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| List some signs of major depression. |
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-low self-esteem
-loss of pleasure in daily activities (anhedonia)
-sleep disorders
-difficulty concentrating or making decisions |
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| List some risk factors for suicide. |
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-prior suicide attempts
-delusional or psychotic thinking
-FHx of suicide
-mental disorders
-substance abuse
-family violence, including physical or sexual abuse
-firearms in the home
-incarceration |
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| Which word describes phrases or sentences which are substituted for a word the person cannot think of, such as "what you write with" for "pen"? |
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| Which word describes word malformation such ("I write with a den"), wrong ("I write with a bar"), or invented ("I write with a dar")? |
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| Hesitancies and gaps in the flow and rhythm of words, disturbed inflections, circumlocutions, and paraphasias are suggestive of what disorder? |
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| What level of consciousness is displayed when a patient is drowsy but open their eyes and look at you, respond to questions, and then fall asleep? |
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| What level of consciousness is displayed when a patient opens their eyes and looks at you, but respond slowly and are somewhat confused? |
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| What specifically is being tested when you ask a pt to follow a one-stage command such as "Point to your nose" or a two stage command such as "Point to your mouth, then your knee"? |
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| What specifically is being tested when you ask a pt to name the parts of a watch? |
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| What specifically is being tested when you ask a patient to repeat a phrase of one syllable words like "No ifs, ands, or buts"? |
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| What specifically is being tested when you ask a pt to read a paragraph aloud? |
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| When you ask a pt to write a sentence, what are you testing? |
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| Sadness, deep melancholy, contentment, joy, euphoria, elation, and anger are all types of what? |
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| What is the term for speech characterized by indirection and delay in reaching the point because of unnecessary detail, although components of the description have a meaningful connection? |
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| What is the term for speech in which a person shifts from one object to others that are unrelated or related only obliquely without realizing that the subjects are not meaningfully connected? |
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| derailment (loosening of associations) |
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| What term is characterized by an almost flow of accelerated speech in which a person changes abruptly from topic to topic and changes are usually based on understandable associations, plays on words, or distracting stimuli, but the ideas do not progress to sensible conversation? |
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| What term is characterized by invented or distorted words, or words with new and highly idiosyncratic meanings? |
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| What term is characterized by speech that is largely incomprehensible because of illogic, lack of meaningful connections, abrupt changes in topic, or disordered grammar or worse use? |
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| What term is characterized by sudden interruption of speech in midsentence or before completion of an idea and the person attributes this to losing the thought? |
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| What term is characterized by fabrication of facts or events in response to questions, to fill in the gaps in an impaired memory? |
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| What term is characterized by persistent repetition of words or ideas? |
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| What term is characterized by repetition of the words and phrases of others? |
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| What term is characterized by speech in which a person chooses a word on the basis of sound rather than meaning, as in rhyming and punning speech? |
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| What term is described by repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person feels driven to perform in order to produce or prevent some future state of affairs, although expectation of such an effect is unrealistic? |
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| What term is described by recurrent, uncontrollable thoughts, images, or impulses that a person considers unacceptable and alien? |
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| What term describes persistent, irrational fears, accompanied by a compelling desire to avoid the stimulus? |
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| What term is encompassed by apprehensions, fears, tensions, or uneasiness that may be focused (phobia) or free-floating (a general sense of ill-defined dread or impending doom)? |
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| What term is characterized by a sense that things in the environment are strange, unreal, or remote? |
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| What term describes a sense that one's self is different, changed, or unreal, or has lost identity or become detached from one's mind or body? |
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| feelings of depersonalization |
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| What term describes false, fixed, personal beliefs that are not shared by other members of the person's culture or subculture? |
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| What type of delusion occurs when a person believes that external events, objects, or people have a particular and unusual personal significance? |
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| What delusion is characterized by believing one has a disease, disorder, or physical defect? |
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| What is the term for misinterpretations of real external stimuli? |
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| What term is described by subjective sensory perceptions in the absence of relevant external stimuli and the person may or may not recognize the experiences as false? |
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| What do the digit span, serial 7's, and spelling the word "world" backward assess? |
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| Asking a pt to interprete proverbs or asking about the similarities between two objects is assessing what? |
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| Name the chronic, multisystem disorder characterized by complaints of pain, GI, and sexual dysfunction, and pseudoneurologic symptoms where onset is early in life and psychosocial and vocational achievements are limited. |
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| Name the disorder in the syndrome of symptoms of deficits mimicking neurologic or medical illness in which psychological factors are judged to be of etiologic importance? |
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| Name the disorder which is a clinical syndrome characterized predominately by pain in which psychological factors are judged to be of etiologic importance. |
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| Name the disorder in which there is a chronic preoccupation with the idea of having a serious disease and the preoccupation is poorly amenable to reassurance. |
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| Name the disorder in which there is a preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated defect in physical appearance. |
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| Name the disorder in which there is intentional production or feigning of physical or psychological signs when external reinforcers are clearly not present. |
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| Name the disorder in which there is intentional production or feigning of physical or psychological signs when external reinforcers are present. |
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| What disorders are characterized by disruptions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perceptions judged to be due to psychological factors? |
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What type of disorder is characterized by at least five of the following symptoms (including one of the first two) must be present during the same two week period:
-depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day
-markedly diminished interest or pleasure in almost all activities most of the day, nearly every day
-significant weight gain or loss (not dieting) or increased or decreased appetite nearly every day
-insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day
-psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day
-fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day
-inability to think or concentrate or indecisiveness nearly every day
-feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt nearly every day
-recurrent thoughts of death or suicide or a specific plan for or attempt at suicide |
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What disorder is characterized by a distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood must be present for at least a week and includes the following symptoms:
-inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
-decreased need for sleep
-more talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking
-flight of ideas or racing thoughts
-distractability
-increased goal-directed activity or psychomotor agitation
-excessive involvement in pleasurable high-risk activities |
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| What disorder has moods and symptoms resembling those in a manic episode but are less impairing, do not require hospitalization, do not include hallucinations or delusions, and have a shorter minimum duration of about 4 days? |
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| What disorder is characterized by a depressed mood and symptoms for most days than not, over at least 2 years and freedom from symptoms that last no more than 2 months at a time? |
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| What disorder is characterized by numerous periods of hypomanic and depressive symptoms that last at least two years and freedom from symptoms that last no more than 2 months at a time? |
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| What disorder is characterized by recurrent, unexpected panic attacks, at least one of which has been followed by a month or more of persistent concern about further attacks, worry over their implications or consequences, or a significant change in behavior in relation to the attacks? |
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| What type of disorder is characterized by an anxiety about being in places or situations where escape may be difficult or embarrassing or help unavailable? |
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| What type of disorder is characterized by a marked, persistent, and excessive unreasonable fear that is cued by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation, such as dogs, injections, or flying? |
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| What type of disorder is a marked, persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations that involve exposure to unfamiliar places or to scrutiny by others? |
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| What disorder involves obsessions or compulsions that cause marked anxiety or distress? |
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| obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| What disorder is characterized by an event, a fearful response, and the persistent reexperiencing of the traumatic event resemble those in acute stress disorder? |
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| post-traumatic stress disorder |
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| What disorder lacks a specific traumatic event or focus for concern but is characterized by excessive anxiety and worry, which the person finds hard to control and are about a number of events or activities? |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| This disorder impairs major functioning, at work or school or in interpersonal relations or self-care and has at least two of the following symptoms for at least 1 month: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, and negative symptoms such as flat affect, alogia, avolition; and signs of disturbance must persist for at least 6 months. |
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| This disorder has symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia but they last less than 6 months and the functional impairment seen in schizophrenia need not be present. |
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| Schizophreniform disorder |
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| This disorder has features of both a major mood disturbance and schizophrenia, and the mood disturbance is present during most of the illness and must, for a time, be concurrent with symptoms of schizophrenia. |
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| This disorder is characterized by nonbizarre delusions that involve situations in real life, such as having a disease or being deceived by a lover that persist for at least one month, but the person's functioning is not markedly impaired, and behavior is not obviously odd or bizarre. |
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| This disorder is characterized by at least one of the following psychotic symptoms: delusions, hallucinations, disordered speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior that lasts as least one day but less than 1 month, and the person returns to his or her prior functional level? |
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| This disorder has prominent hallucinations or delusions may be experienced during a medical illness. |
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| Psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition |
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| This disorder has prominent hallucinations or delusions may be induced by intoxication or withdrawal from a substance such as alcohol, cocaine, or opioids. |
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| substance-induced psychotic disorder |
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