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Psychological disorder |
A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior |
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Medical model |
The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital |
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Generalized anxiety disorder |
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal |
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Panic disorder |
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minues-long episodes of intense dread in which a person may experience terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations; often followed by worry over a possible next attack |
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Phobia |
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation |
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder |
A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts(obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both |
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Posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD) |
A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hyperviligance, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience |
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Major depressive disorder |
A disorder in which a person experiences, in the absense of drugs or another medical condition, 2 or more weeks with 5 or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure |
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Bipolar disorder |
A disorder in which a person alternates between hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania(formerly known as manic depressive disorder) |
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Schizophrenia |
A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression |
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Hallucinations |
False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absense of an external visual stimulus |
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Delusion |
A false belief, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders |
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Conversion disorser |
A disorder related to somatic symptom disorder in which a person experiences very specific, physical symptoms that aren't compatible with recognized medical or neurological conditions (also called functional neurological symptom disorder) |
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Dissociation disoders |
Controversial, rare disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings |
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antisocial personality disorder |
A personality disorder in which a person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of consciounce of wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members; may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist |
