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18 Cards in this Set
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Agoraphobia
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An intense fear of being in a situation from which escape is not possible or in which help would not be available if one experienced overwhelming anxiety or a panic attack.
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Anxiety Disorders
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Psychological disorders characterized by frequent fearful thoughts about what might happen in the future.
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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An anxiety disorder in which people experience chronic, excessive worry for 6 months or more.
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Panic Disorder
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An anxiety disorder in which a person experiences recurring, unpredictable episodes of overwhelming anxiety, fear, or terror.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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An anxiety disorder in which a person suffers from recurrent obsessions and/or compulsions.
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Specific Phobia
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A marked fear of a specific object or situation; a general label for any phobia other than agoraphobia and social phobia.
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Mood Disorders
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Disorders characterized by extreme and unwarranted disturbances in emotion or mood.
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Major Depressive Disorder
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A mood disorder marked by feelings of great sadness, despair, and hopelessness.
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Bipolar Disorder
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A mood disorder in which manic episodes alternate with periods of depression, usually with relatively normal periods in between.
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Schizophrenia
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A severe psychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality, hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate or flat affect, some disturbance in thinking, social withdrawal, and/or other bizarre behavior.
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Disorganized Schizophrenia
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The most serious type of schizophrenia, marked by extreme social withdrawal, hallucinations, delusions, silliness, inappropriate laughter, grotesque mannerisms, and other bizarre behavior.
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Catatonic Schizophrenia
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A type of schizophrenia characterized by complete stillness or stupor or great excitement and agitation; patients may assume an unusual posture and remain in it for long periods of time.
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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
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A catchall term used when schizophrenic symptoms either do not conform to the criteria of any one type of schizophrenia or conform to more than one type.
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Residual Schizophrenia |
include hallucinations, delusions, catatonic behavior, severely disorganized behavior, or disorganized speech.
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Somatoform Disorders
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Disorders in which physical symptoms are present due to psychological causes rather than any known medical condition.
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Hypochondriasis
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A somatoform disorder in which persons are preoccupied with their health and fear that their physical symptoms area a sign of some serious disease, despite reassurance from doctors to the contrary.
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Conversion Disorder
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A somatoform disorder in which a person suffers a loss of motor or sensory functioning in some part of the body; the loss has no physical cause but solves some psychological problem.
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Dissociative Disorder
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Disorders in which, under unbearable stress, consciousness becomes dissociated from a person's identity or her or his memories of important personal events, or both.
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