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| a harmful dysfunction In which behavior is judged to be atypical disturbing maladaptive and unjustifiable |
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| How are disorders grouped/classified? |
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| Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
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| A person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread and irrational fears |
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darkness
spiders
heights
noise |
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| what are specific phobias? |
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| fear of being in social situations, public speaking or meeting new people |
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| How do we accuire phobias? |
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as young kids, not born with them,
from our experiences, learned fear |
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| an anxiety disorder marked by a minutes long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chess pain,choaking and other frightening sensations |
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Generalizes Anxiety Disorder
a person is continuously tense, apprehensive and in a state of arousal and over sensitive |
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| What are the symptoms of GAD?` |
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| consistently tense and worried and feels inadequate. They cant concentrate and suffers from insomnia |
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| What are obsessions and compulsions? |
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| Persistant unwanted thoughts or obsessions cayses someone to feel the need to engage in a particular action |
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| What are symptoms of OCD? |
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| obsession about dirt and germs may lead to compulsive hand washing |
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
flashbacks or nightmares following a persons invovlement in or observation of a extremly stessful event.
Causes anxiety |
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| What are dissociative disorders? |
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| a disruption in the conscious process |
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| What is dissociative amnesia? |
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a person cant remember what happened
Retrograde: cant remember the past
Antrograde: unable to make new memories |
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| What are somataform disorders? |
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| Occur when a person manifests a psychological problem through a pychological symptom |
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| report the existence of severe physical problems with no biological reason |
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has frequent physical complaints for which medical doctors are unable to locate the cause
minor issues= more severe illness |
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| unhappy for at least two weeks with no apparent cause |
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None apparant
saratonin levels |
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| treatment for depression? |
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Talking to people about it.
SSRI(Medical)
food, exercise, sleep |
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| Symptoms of Bipolar(manic-depressive disorder) ? |
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| formally manic depression involves depression and manic episodes involve feelings of high energy |
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| Why are women more likely to be depressed than men? |
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| guilt, anxiety, sleep, increased appetite,eating disorders |
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| What are the gender differences for depression between men and women? |
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Disorganized thinking.
disturbed perceptions, inappropriate emotions and actions |
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believing something that is not true.
Delusions of perception and grandeur |
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| Physical visuals. Sensory experiences without sensory stimulation. |
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| No emotion. Starring off into space. Flate effect. Senseless, compulsive act |
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Paranoid
Disorganized
Catatonic |
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| What are the three kinds of Schizophrenia? |
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| preoccupation with deluisons or hallucinations. |
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| thoughts speech and behavior that dont make sense |
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| Flat effect. Waxy flexability. Parrot like repeating of another speech and movement |
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| Paranoid Personality Disorder? |
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| View other people's intentions as threatening or demeaning without a realistic basis. They DO NOT have grossly disorganized thoughts like paranoid schizophrenia. |
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| Schizotypal Personality Disorder |
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| Peculiar thoughts, perceptions and behavior. Excessive fantasy. Many believe they have extra sensory abilities. Odd usage of words. |
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| Schizoid Personality Disorder |
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| Flat emotions towards others, indifferent towards relationships. |
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| refusal to remain healthful body weight, intense fear of being overweight. Eat little to none |
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| Reccurrent cycles of binge eating followed by dramatic measures to purge the food |
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| Impulsiveness, short attention span, hyperactive |
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| A neurological disorder characterized by involuntary body movements and vocal outbursts for at least 12 months |
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| What are symptoms of tourettes? |
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| Who are most likely to develop tourettes? |
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| What are addictive disorders? |
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| a dependence on a chemical substance,addiction to a type of activity or certain feelings/emotions |
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| 7.9% of people 12 and older have an addictive disorder |
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| What percentage of people get addictive disorders? |
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| gradual deterioration in mental process such as memory, language, and problem solving. |
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| 10% of people over the age of 65 and 50% of people over the age of 85 |
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| What percentage of people get alzheimers? |
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| how is alzheimers treated? |
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acetylcholine
vaccine of betamyloid |
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