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| deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thought, feelings, or behaviors |
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| a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity |
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| social anxiety about one's appearance combined with a readiness to blush and a fear of eye contact |
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| the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical cases that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases cured often through treatment in a hospital |
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| The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, updated as a 2000 "text revision;" a guide used system for classifying psychological disorders |
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| psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety |
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| Generalized anxiety disorder |
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| person is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy; in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal |
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| a person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread; person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations |
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| a person feels irrationally and intensely afraid of a specific object or situation |
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| obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| a person is troubled by repetitive thoughts (obsessions) or actions (compulsions) |
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| post-traumatic stress disorder |
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| a person has lingering memories, nightmares, and other symptoms for weeks after a severely threatening, uncontrollable event |
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| may focus on animals, insects, heights, blood, or close spaces |
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| shyness taken to an extreme; an intense fear of being scrutinized by others, avoid potentially embarrassing social situations, such as speaking up, eating out, or going to parties, or will sweat, tremble, or have diarrhea when doing so |
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| fear or avoidance of situations in which escape might be difficult or help unavailable when panic strikes; people may avoid being outside the home, in a crowd, on a bus, or on an elevator |
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| direct exposure to threatened death or serious injury |
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| positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises |
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| brain becomes overactive with too much of this |
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| affects brain levels of serotonin |
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| influences sleep and mood |
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| anterior cingulate cortex |
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| brain region that monitors our actions and checks for errors |
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| psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause |
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| a rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found |
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| a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease |
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| disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings |
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| dissociative identity disorder (DID) |
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| a rare dissociative disorder in which person exhibits two or more distinct and alternation personalities |
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| psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes |
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| major depressive disorder |
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| its prolonged hopelessness and lethargy; two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, mood disorder in which feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities |
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| mood disorder in which person alternates between depression and mania; person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and he overexcited state of mania |
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| a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state |
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| to ruminate, to endlessly rehash something in one's mind |
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| who or what they blame for their failures |
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| a group of severe disorders characterized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions |
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| false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders |
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| sensory experiences without sensory stimulation |
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| preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations, often with themes of persecution or grandiosity |
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| disorganized schizophrenia |
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| disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion |
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| immobility, extreme negativism, and/or parrot like repeating of another's speech or movements |
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| undifferentiated schizophrenia |
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| withdrawal, after hallucinations and delusions have disappeared |
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| may experience hallucinations, talk in disorganized and deluded ways, and exhibit inappropriate laughter, tears, or rage |
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| toneless voices, expressionless faces, or mute and rigid bodies |
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| psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning |
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| antisocial personality disorder |
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| a personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist |
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| avoidant personality disorder |
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| disorder that expresses anxiety |
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| schizoid personality disorder |
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| expresses eccentric behaviors |
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| histrionic personality disorder |
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| personality disorder that exhibits dramatic or impulsive behaviors behaviors |
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| narcissistic personality disorder |
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| self-focused and self-inflating personality disorder |
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