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| The sense that the content of the obsession is alien, not within the persons control, and not the kind of thought that the person would expect to have. |
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| “persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress” |
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| A discrete period in which there is a sudden onset of intense apprehension, fearfulness, or terror, often associated with feelings of impending doom. During these attacks, symptoms such as shortness of breath, palpitations, chest pain or discomfort, choking or smothering sensations, and fear of “going crazy” or losing control are present. A descrete period of time. |
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| Anxiety about or avoidance of places or situations from which escape might be difficult for embarrassing) or in which help may not be available in the event of having a panic attack or panic like symptom. |
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| Repetitive behaviors or mental acts in which the goals is to prevent, reduce anxiety or distress (not in order to provide pleasure). |
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| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder |
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| Development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor involving direct personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or other threat to one’s physical integrity; or witnessing an event that involves another, or learning about that of another |
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| Similar to PTSD but occur immediately in the aftermath of an extremely traumatic event. (quick and short lived) |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| At least 6 months or persistent and excessive anxiety and worry |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy |
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| Deliberate cause of seizure activity through use of electric current to the brain. |
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| Presence of physical symptoms that suggest a medical condition, but are not fully explained by a medical condition or the effects of a substance or another mental disorder. |
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| usually begins before age 30, includes pain gastrointestinal, sexual , and or pseudoneurological symptoms. Extends over a period of years |
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| Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder- |
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| lasts at least 6 months below threshold for Dx of somatization disorder Not as tense |
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| involves symptoms affecting voluntary motor or sensory functions that suggests a neuro or other medical condition. Often la belle indifference (like their left side doesn’t move and they don’t care) or very dramatic. Symptoms do not correspond with known pathways or physiological mechanisms Often looks like a neuro condition |
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| Pain is the main focus . It is not intentionally produced or pretended. Unemployment, disability and family problems are common. Drug dependence can develop. |
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| Preoccupation with or fear of having , or the idea that one has a serious medical disease based on misinterpretation of bodily symptoms or functions |
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| Body Dysmorphic Disorder- |
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| Preoccupation with a real but exaggerated defect in personal appearance or an imagined defect. May use unusual means to inspect the perceived deformity or extraordinary attempts to camouflage the supposed deformity. |
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| Intentionally produced or feigned physical or psychological symptoms in order to assume the sick role |
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Disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception
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| inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. Have gaps in personal hx usually surrounding a very stressful event such as an accident, or combat |
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| Sudden unexpected travel away from home or work with inability to recall one’s past and confusion about own identity, or with assuming a new identity |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| the presence of 2 or more distinct identities or personality states that take control with inability to recall important personal information, characterized by identity fragmentation rather than proliferation of separate personalities. (was formerly called multiple personality disorder) |
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| Depersonalization Disorder- |
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| persistent or recurrent felling of being detached from one’s mental processes or body and is accompanied by intact reality testing. Looking in on your body. |
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