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Psychological disorders
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persistently harmful thoughts, feelings and actions
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DSM-IV
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diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 400
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Generalized anxiety disorder
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persistent and uncontrollable tenseness. inability to identify or avoid causes of feelings
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Panic attack disorder
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Minutes long episodes of intense dread which cause feelings of terror chest pains and other frightening sensations
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Phobias
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anxiety disorder marked by a persistent irrational fear of object of situation that disrupts behavior
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OCD
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persistence of unwanted thoughts and urges to engage in senseless rituals that cause distress
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Post-traumatic disorder
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four or more weeks of haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawl, anxiety, sleeping problems
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Depression
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Signs last 2 or more weeks not caused by drugs or medical conditions. Fatigue, worthlessness, loss interest family and friends and activities
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Bipolar
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manic depressive, alteration between depression and mania
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Suicidal thoughts
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the most severe form of behavioral response to depression. 1 mil a year worldwide
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Social cognitive approach to depression
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depression arises partly from self-defeating beliefs and negative explanatory styles
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Schizophrenia
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'split mind' and split forms of reality. disorganized thinking, disturbed preceptions, inappropriate emotions
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Hallucinations in schizophrenia
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perceive things that aren't there such as auditory and lesser visual sensory
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Catatonia in schizophrenia
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may continually rub an arm rock a chair or remian motionless for hours
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Causes of schizophrenia
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brain abonormalities dopamine overactivity, morphological changes. flu contraction during fetal development
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Historic personality disorder
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displays shallow attention getting emotions goes to great lengths to get praise and reassurance
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Narcissistic personality disorder
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exaggerate their own importance aided by success fantasies and take criticism hard
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Borderline personality disorder
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unstable identity, relationships and emotins
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Antisocial personality disorder
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usually male. exhibits lack of conscience for wrong doing even against family and friends
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Dissociative Disorder
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exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. only found in US
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