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| What is Intermittent Explosive Disorder? |
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| Significant distress and impairment of functioning, discrete episodes of failing to resist aggressive impulses resulting in serious assaultive acts of property destruction, Degree of agressiveness grossly out of proportion to provocation or stressor, Not a direct physiologic effect of a substance or genearl medical condition. |
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| Recurrent failure to resist impulse to steal object that is not needed. Increased tension before theft, Pleasure, gratification, or relief at time of theft, Not better accounted for by another psychiatric disorder |
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| What is Pathologic Gambling? |
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Definition
| Persistent and maladaptive gambling behavior, Disruption of personal, family, or vocational pursuits |
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Definition
| Multiple episodes of deliberate and purposeful fire setting. Tension or affective arousal before act |
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| What is Trichotillomania? |
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Definition
| Recurrent pulling of one's hair with subsequent hair loss, increased tension immediately before act and with attempts to resist urge, Gratification, pleasure, or relief witha ct, Not better accounted for by another psychiatric disorder; not the effect of a general medical condition |
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