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4 criteria used to determine a psychological disorder |
1. Maladaptive-Interfering with your daily life 2. Atypical- Not normal behavioral 3. Disturbing- Inappropriate behavioral, make other uncomfortable/disturbed. 4. Irrational/unjustifiable- A fear |
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Systems used to diagnose psychological disorders |
DSM |
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Anxiety Disorder |
Stress disorders, can be genetic |
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
Some one who is always jumpy, tense, and aroused |
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Phobia |
Irrational fear of an object or situation |
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
Unwanted thoughts and or actions |
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Panic Disorder |
a minute long episode marked an intense dread*-terror |
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Post- traumatic strees disorder |
Haunting nightmares, social withdrawal, etc. as a result of a traumatic event |
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Dissociative Disorders |
Push the conscious into the unconscious to avoid pain/ problems. Stress disorder* |
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Dissociative Fugue |
When a person leaves their house and their ID and forgets about their old life, starting completely over with a new one. |
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Dissociative Amnesia |
Memory lost- selective |
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Dissociative Identity Disorder |
When a person has two or more alternating personalities. |
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Mood Disorders |
Not environmental, they are chemical |
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Major Depressive Disorder |
"Common Cold" of Mood Disorders. No reason for the depression, experiences for 2 or more weeks of depressed moods, feeling of worthless. |
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Mania |
Hyperactive, running around, always wanting to do something. |
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Bipolar Disorder |
Switch between extremely happy, excited all the time to, within seconds, feeling sad, upset, and depressed all the time. |
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Schizophrenia |
Out of touch with reality- the person is in their own reality |
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Paranoid Schizophrenic |
Always thinking that people are out to get them all the time for no reason. |
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Disorganized Schizophrenic |
Disorganized speech or behavioral, jumbled thoughts and actions |
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Catatonic Schizophrenic |
Statue like- when a person becomes immobility, they can not move, are stuck in a motion. |
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Undifferentiated Schizophrenic |
Have symptoms but do not fit into a category |
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Antisocial Personality Disorder |
Lack of conscious, no moral conscious |
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S.A.D (Seasonal Affected Disorder) |
Seasonal depression. Caused by lack of vitumun D and K |
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Histrionic Personality Disorder |
Over dramatic behavioral need praise. Feel the need to be center of attention |
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Narcissist Personality Disorder |
thinks everything revolves around them. Believes they are better than other people. |
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Borderline Personality Disorder |
A person experiencing an unstable* way of thinking and ID- Don't really know who they are or where they fit in. |
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Paranoid Personality Disorder |
"Suspect" others are going to harm them of discussing them behind their backs. |
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Schizoid Personality Disorder |
When a person shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flatten act-felt |
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Schizotypical Personality Disorder |
Odd behavioral or appearance |
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Avoidant Personality Disorder |
Person feels unappealing, and infernal to others |
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Dependent Personality Disorder |
Always needing to be with people. Unable to make decisions with out advice from others |
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Insanity |
State of being seriously mentally ill |
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Hallucination |
An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present |
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Delusion |
an impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder |
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Affect |
To have an emotional effect on something |
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Neurosis |
relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress, (depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality. |
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Psychosis |
severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contract is lost with external reality. |
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Anorexia |
Lack or loss of appetite for food |
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Bulimia |
Insatiable overeating as a medical condition, in particular. -Body imagine -obsessive desire to loss weight -followed by depression -self-induced vomiting |
