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| decresse in amount or speed of speech where person may not answer questions or stop talking in the middle of a thought |
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| lack of motivation to make decisions or initiate self-care such as hygiene and grooming |
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| vague, unfocused, illogical change of thoughts seen in psychosis |
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| beginning of schizophrenia with insidiousonset of smyptoms of increasing anxiety, inability to concentrate or complete goal oriented tasks |
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| false belief that one's thoughts can be hard by others |
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| posturing in which a person's body part can be moved and it will remain in that position until moved by another person |
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| fixed, false belief without appropriate external stimuli that is inconsistent with reality and that cannot be changed by reasoning |
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| involve a decreased reaction to environmental surroundings |
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| decrease in amount or speed of speech that may include stopping in the middle of thought or not answering question asked |
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| form of schizophrenia in which the person demonstrates symptoms of major depression or mania in addition to the primary symptoms of delusions, hallucinations, and diorganized behaviors of schizophrenia |
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| false belief that orthers can remove thoughts from one's mind |
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| condition in which an excessive amount of water is consumed resulting in a psychosis induced metabolic state of fluid overload, leading to cerebral edema with abdominal cramps, dizziness, lethargy, nausea, vomiting, convulsions, and possible coma and death |
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| mental misperception of actual sensory stimuli |
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| related to both psychological and social factors |
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| for of psychosis characterized by disorganized thoughts, perceptual alterations, inappropriate affect, and decreased emotional response to reality |
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| false belief that thoughts of others can be inserted from one's mind |
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| meaningless and incoherent mixture of words or phrases |
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| false sensory perceptions unrelated to actual external stimuli |
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| narcissistic claim of being superior and owed by others |
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| belief that some events have a special personal meaning |
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| belief that thoughts, words, and actions can cause or prevent an occurrence by exraordinary means |
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| derived from the Greek meaning "excessive love and attention give to one's own self image"; person has continued need for lavist attention and admiration with little regard for the feeling of others |
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| intentional act of inclicting bodily injury to oneself without an intent to die as a result |
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| tendency in which a peson indirectly and subtly acts on hostile or bitter feelings |
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| persistent ways in which we view and relate to other people and to society as a whole |
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| an extreme view of one's relationship to the world in which things are seen as all or none, black or white, love or hate, with no neutral feelings |
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| deeply ingrained, persistent, inflexible, and maladaptive patterns of behavior that are in conflict with a cultural norm |
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| Cluster "A" personailty disorder |
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| includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders |
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| Cluster "B" personailty disorder |
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| includes antisocial, borderline, narcissistic and histrionic personality disorders |
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| Cluster "C" personailty disorder |
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| includes avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders |
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| persistent abnormal anxiety that one has a disease although medical evidence has proven otherwise |
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| nervous disorder marked by ineffective emotional control |
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| deliberate faking of an illness for attention |
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| psychologic relief that is felt when anxiety is converted into physical symptoms of a disorder |
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| greek word that refers to the body |
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| symptoms that cannot be explained by diagnostic findings and cannot be attributed to a medical condition |
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| attitude demonstrating little anziety or concern over the implications of one's symptoms |
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| predictable syndrome of physical complaints and symptoms that are expressed as a result of psychologic stress |
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| symptoms that involve false voluntary motor or sensory functioning seen in conversion disorder |
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| attention received from a physician or family member when focus of anxiety is converted to a physical problem |
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| encompasses a period up to and including the present that is lost from conscious recollection |
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| depersonalization disorder |
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| marked by a persistent and repetitious feeling of being detached from one's mental thoughts or body without the presence of disorientation |
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| perception the external environment is unreal or changing |
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| characterized by an inability to remember important personal information that is usually of a traumatic or stressful nature |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| two or more distinct identities or personalities present in the same person that alternate in assuming control of the person's behavior(formerly known as multiple personality disorder) |
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| inability to recall any aspect of one's life |
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| dissociation in person trying to avoid a legal, financial, or wanted personal situation |
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| mental mechanism that allows one's mind to separate certain memories from conscious awareness and repress them into the unconscious level |
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| inability to recall some or all of a person's past or identity, accompanied by the sudden and unexpected travel of the person away from home or place of employment |
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| usually occurs within a few hours following a traumatic event |
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| person retains memory of some portions of an event, but not all details surrounding the situation |
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| changing of one personality to another that occurs very abruptly in dissociative identity disorder |
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| physiologic and psychologic dependenve on a drug of abuse that causes withdrawal symptoms when substance is discontinued |
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| tendency to feel a responsibility for drug user's problem while internalizing a form of guilt for the behavior of that person |
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| the development of a reversible pattern of behavior caused by recent ingestion of a substance |
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| Wernicke-Korsakoff Snydrome |
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| mental disorder characterized by amnesia, clouding of consciousness, confabulation, memory loss, and peripheral neuropathy. The disorder si associated with thiamine and niacin vitamin deficiency seen in chronic alcoholism |
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| maladaptive change in behavior accompanied by phsiological and psychological alterations that occur as the blood or tissue concentrations of a substance decline in a person who has engaged in heavy prolonged use of a substance |
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| refers to any drug, medication, or toxins that share the potential for abuse |
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| maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clincally significant impairment or distress with continuance in using the substance regardless of the adverse substance reltated problems |
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| maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to physiologic, cognitive, and behavioral indications the person continues to use the drug despite the adverse effects experienced |
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| first phase of dependency treatment lasting from 3-5 days that consists of immediate withdrawal from the physical and psychological effects of the drug |
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| form of amnesia for events that occurred during a drinking period |
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| condition that develops through continued use of a substance as the brain adapts to repeated doses of the drug with a declining effect as it is taken repeatedly over time |
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| patterns of either consciously or unconsciously helping the maladaptive behavior of a drug abuser to continue |
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| reocurrence of a disorder or symptoms after apparent recovery |
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| maladaptive recurring use of a substance accompanied by repeated detrimental effects as a result of continued use |
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| strong inner drive to use a substance |
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| volatile substances such as gasoline and paint if used for the purpose of intoxication |
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| state of profound confusion and delusions along with all of the usual withdrawal symptoms that are seen within a short period following cessation of alcohol use |
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