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What percentage of the population is estimated as having a personality disorder?
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between 10 to 20 percent
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What are the trends in sex-bias in diagnosing personality disorders?
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Men are more frequently diagnosed antisocial and schizoid
Women are more prone to borderline, histrionic, and dependent |
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What are personality disorders a significand predisposing factor for?
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Other psychiatric disorders (e.g.) substance used, suicide, eating disorders)
Somatic medicine (e.g. coranary artery disease, angina) |
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A person can have a tendency towards an obsessive personality without being considered to have a 'personality disorder'. |
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What is the definition of a personality disorder?
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An enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture.
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List some specific personality disorders
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Paranoid Personality Disorder
Schizoid Personality Disorder Antisocial Personality Disorder Narcissistic Personality Disorder Histrionic Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Dis. Dependent Personality Dis. OCD Personality disorder Impulse Control Disorder Fractitious Disorders |
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Define Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Exessive suspicious and distrust of othrs expressed as a pervasive tendency to interpret actions of others as deliberately demeaning, malevolvent, and threatening.
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Hypersensitive to and unforgiving of insults, slights, and rebuffs
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Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Reluctance to confide in others because of unwarrented dear that the information will be used against them
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Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Define Schizoid Personality Disorder
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Pervasive pattern of social detachment and a restricted range of expressed emotions in interpersonal settings
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Indifference to praise and criticism
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Schizoid personality disorder
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Preference for solitary activities and fantasy
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Schizoid personality disorder
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Lack of interest in sexual interactions
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Schizoid personality disorder
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Lack of desire or pleasure in close relationships
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Schizoid personality disorder
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Emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity
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Schizoid personality disorder
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No close friends or confidents, other than family members
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Schizoid personality disorder
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Define Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Pervasive disregard for and violation of the rights of others. A person has to be 18 years or older, and there has to be evidence of conduct disorder before 15 years of age
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Failure to conform to social norms
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Deceitfulness
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Impulsivity and aggressiveness
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Recklessness
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Irresponsibility, indicated by the failure to honor financial obligations or sustain consistent work behaviour
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Lack of remorse, indicated by indifference or rationalization of having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from others
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Define Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Pervasive sense of grandiosity, a need for admiration, lack of empathy, and chronic, intense envy.
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Grandiose sense of self importance and specialness
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Recklessness
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Irresponsibility, indicated by the failure to honor financial obligations or sustain consistent work behaviour
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Lack of remorse, indicated by indifference or rationalization of having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from others
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Define Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Pervasive sense of grandiosity, a need for admiration, lack of empathy, and chronic, intense envy.
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Grandiose sense of self importance and specialness
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Sense of entitlement
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Interpersonal exploitation, such as taking advantage of owthers to achieve own needs
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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lack of empathy
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Excessive need for admiration and acclaim
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Sense of entitlement
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Interpersonal exploitation, such as taking advantage of owthers to achieve own needs
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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lack of empathy
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Excessive need for admiration and acclaim
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Sense of entitlement
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Interpersonal exploitation, such as taking advantage of owthers to achieve own needs
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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lack of empathy
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Excessive need for admiration and acclaim
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Intensive and chronic envy
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Arrogant and haughty attitude
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Define Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Pervasive and excessive self-dramatization, excessive emotionality, and attention seeking.
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Inappropriate sexual seductiveness or provocativeness
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Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Excessive need to be the centre of attention
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Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Rapidly shifting and shallow expressions of emotions
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Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Suggestibility
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Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Physical appearance used for attention seeking purposes
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Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Impressionistic speech lacking detail
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Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotions
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Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Relationships considered to be more intimate than they really are
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Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Define Borderline Personality Disorder
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Pervasive and excessive inability of affects, self-image, and interpersonal relationships, as well as marked impulsivity.
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Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Unstable and intense interpersonal relationships with alternating between idealisation and devaluation
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Impulsivity in at least two potential self-damaging, and reckless areas (spending, sex, substance abuse, binge eating, and reckless driving)
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures, threats, or self-mutilating behaviours
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Instability of affect due to marked reactivity of mood
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Chronic feelings of emptiness
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Inappropriately intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Stress-related, transient paranoid ideation or dissociative symptoms
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Define Dependent Personality Disorder
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Pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to clinging behaviour, submissiveness, fear of separation, and interpersonal dependence
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Difficulty in making everyday decisions without excessive reassurance and advise from others
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Dependent Personality Disorder
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Need for others to assume responsibility for major areas of his or her live
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Dependent Personality Disorder
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Difficulties expressing disagreement with others because of fear of loss of support or approval
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Dependent Personality Disorder
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Lack of initiative
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Dependent Personality Disorder
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Unrealistic preoccupation with fears of being left to take care of self
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Dependent Personality Disorder
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Urgent search for another relationship as a source of care and support when a close relationship ends
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Dependent Personality Disorder
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Extensive efforts to obtain nurturance and support from others (to the point of volunteering to do unpleasant things)
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Dependent Personality Disorder
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Uncomfortable and helpless feelings when alone because of exaggerated fears of being unable to take care of self
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Dependent Personality Disorder
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Low self-esteem with self-doubt and self-defeating demeanour
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Dependent Personality Disorder
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Define Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
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Pervasive and peroccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency.
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Preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order, procedure, organisation, or schedules to the extent that the major point of activity is lost
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OCD
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Perfectionist that interferes with task completion
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OCD
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Excessive devotion to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships
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OCD
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Over-consciousness, scrupulousness, and inflexibility about matters of morality, ethics, or values
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OCD
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Inability to discard worn-out or worthless objects with no sentimental value
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OCD
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Reluctance to delegate tasks or work with others unless the submit exactly to his or her way of doing things
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OCD
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Stinginess
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OCD
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Rigidity and stubbornness
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OCD
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Define Impulse control disorder
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A set of psychiatric disorders, with Impulsivity as the key feature
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List the disorders that might be included in Impulse control disorder
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Intermittent explosive disorder
Kleptomania Pyromania Pathological gambling Trichotillomania |
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Define Factitious Disorders
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People who deliberately create or exaggerate symptoms of an illness in several ways. People with Factitious disorders behave this way because of an inner need to be seen as ill or injured
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Munchausen's Syndrome
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Factitious disorder
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Dramatic but inconsistent medical history
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Munchausen's Syndrome
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Unclear symptoms that are not controllable and that become more severe or change once treatment has begun
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Munchausen's Syndrome
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Extensive knowledge of hospitals and/or medical terminology, as well as textbook descriptions of illnesses
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Munchausen's Syndrome
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Presence of multiple surgical scars
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Munchausen's Syndrome
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Appearance of new or additional symptoms following negative test results
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Munchausen's Syndrome
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Problems with identity and self-esteem
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Munchausen's Syndrome
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Define Malingering
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Deliberate behaviour for a known external purpose. Pretending to be ill, usually in order to avoid work or gain attention.
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