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Emotional lability
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Instability of emotional experiences and mood; emotions that are easily aroused, intense, and out of proportion to events and circumstances
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Anxiousness
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Feelings of nervousness, tenseness, for panic in reaction to diverse situations; frequent worry; fearful and apprehensive about uncertainty
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Separation insecurity |
Fears of being alone due to rejection by for separation from significant others
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Submissiveness
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Adaption of one's behavior to the actual perceived interests and desires of others, even when doing so is antithetical to one's own interests, needs or desires
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Hostility
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Persistent or frequent angry feelings; anger or irritability in response to minor threats; mean nasty, or vengeful behavior
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Perseveration
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Persistence at tasks or in a particular way of doing things long after the behavior has ceased to be functional or effective; continuance of the same behavior despite repeated failures or clear reasons for stopping
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Detachment
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Avoidance of social emotional experience, including withdrawal from interpersonal interactions and restricted affective experience and expression
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Withdrawal
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Preference for being alone; reticence in social situations; avoidance of social contact, and lack of initiation in social contact
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Intimacy avoidance
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Avoidance of close or romantic relationships, interpersonal attachments, and intimate sexual relationships |
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Anhedonia
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Lack of enjoyment from, engagement in, or energy for life's experiences; deficits in the capacity to feel pleasure and take interest in things
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Depressivity
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Feelings of being down, miserable, or hopeless; difficulty recovering from such moods; pessimism about the future; shame or guilt; feelings of inferiority; thoughts of suicide
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Restricted affectivity
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Little reaction to emotionally arousing situations; constricted emotional experience expression; indifference and aloofness in normatively engaging situations
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Suspiciousness
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Expectations of and the sensitivity to signs of interpersonal ill-intent or harm; doubts about loyalty and fidelity of others; feelings of being mistreated, used, or persecuted by others
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Antagonism
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Behaviors that put an individual at odds with other people, including and exaggerated sense of self-importance and a concomitant expectation of special treatment, and antipathy towards others, encompassing both in an awareness of others needs and feelings and a readiness to use others in the service of self enhancement
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Manipulativeness
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Use of subterfuge to influence or control others; use of seduction, charm, glibness, or ingratiation to achieve one's ends
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Deceitfulness
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This honesty and fraudulence; misrepresentation of self; embellishment or fabrication when relating events
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Attention seeking
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Engaging in behavior designed to attract notice or to make oneself the focus of others' attention and admiration
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Callousness |
Lack of concern for the feelings or problems of others; lack of guilt or remorse about the negative or harmful effects of one's actions on others
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Disinhibition
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Orientation toward immediate gratification, leading to impulsive behavior driven by current thoughts, feelings, and external stimuli, without regard for pasta learning or consideration of future consequences
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Irresponsibility
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Disregard for an failure to honor financial and other obligations or commitments; lack of respect for an lack of follow-through on agreements and promises; carelessness with others' property
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Impulsivity
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Acting on the spur of the moment in response to immediate stimuli; acting on a momentary basis without a plan or consideration of outcomes; difficulty establishing and following plans; a sense of urgency or self harming behavior under emotional distress
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Distractibility |
Difficulty concentrating and focusing on tasks; attention is easily diverted to extraneous stimuli; difficulty maintaining goal focused behavior, including both planning and completing tasks
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Risk-taking
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Engagement in dangerous, risky, and potentially self damaging activities, unnecessarily and without regards to consequences; lack of concern for once limitations and denial of the reality of personal danger; reckless pursuit of goals regardless of the level of risk involved
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Rigid perfectionism
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Rigid insistence on everything being flawless, perfect, and without errors or faults, including one's own and others' performance; sacrificing Time to ensure correctness in every detail; preoccupation with details, organization and order
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Psychoticism
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Exhibiting a wide range of culturally incongruent odd, eccentric or unusual behaviors and cognition,both in process and content areas
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Unusual beliefs and experiences
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Believe that one has unusual abilities, such is mind reading
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Eccentricity
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Odd, unusual, or bizarre behavior, appearance, or speech; having strange and unpredictable thoughts; saying unusual or inappropriate things
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Cognitive and perceptual dysregulation
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Odd or unusual thought processes and experiences, including depersonalization, derealization, and dissociative experiences; mixed sleep-wake state experiences; thought control experiences
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Amnesia
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Inability to recall important autobiographical information that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting
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Attention
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The ability to focus in a sustained manner on a particular stimulus or activity
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Attention seeking
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Engaging in behavior or designs to attract notice anti-make oneself the focus of others' attention and admiration
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Avoidance
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The act of keeping away from stress-related circumstances
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Circadian rhythms
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Cyclical variations in physiological and biochemical function, level of sleep-wake activity, and emotional state. They have a cycle of about 24 hours.
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Conversion symptom |
A loss of or alteration in voluntary motor or sensory functioning, with or without apparent impairment of consciousness
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Depersonalization
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The experience of feeling detached from oneself
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Derealization
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The experience of feeling detached from reality
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Dissociation
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This putting off of clusters of mental contents from conscious awareness. Dissociation is a mechanism central to dissociative disorders. Often a result of psychic trauma, it may allow the individual to maintain allegiance to two contradictory truths while remaining unconscious of the contradiction
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Dyssomnias
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Primary disorders of sleep or wakefulness characterized by insomnia or hypersomnia
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Parasomnias
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Disorders of sleep involving abnormal behaviors or physiological events occurring during sleep or sleep-wake transitions
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Echolalia
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The pathological, parrot like, and apparently senseless repetition of a word or phrase just spoken
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Echopraxia
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Mimicking the movements of another
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Gender identity
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A category of social identity that refers to an individuals identification as male, female, or some category other than male or female
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Gender dysphoria
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Distress that accompanies the incongruence between the ones experienced an expressed to gender and one's assigned or natal gender
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Intersex condition |
A condition in which individuals have conflicting or ambiguous biological indicators of sex
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Intimacy
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Depth and duration of connection with others; desire and capacity for closeness; mutuality of regard reflected in interpersonal behavior
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Narcolepsy
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Sleep disorder characterized by periods of extreme drowsiness and frequent daytime lapses into sleep
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Pseudocyesis
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A false belief of being pregnant
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Somnolence
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A state of near sleep, drowsiness, a strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for unusually long periods
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Stereotypies
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Repetitive, abnormally frequent, non-goal directed movements, seemingly driven, and nonfunctional motor behavior
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Tic
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An involuntary, sudden, rapid, recurrent, non-rhythmic, motor movement or vocalization
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Transgender
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The broad spectrum of individuals who transiently or permanently identify with a gender different from their natal gender
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Transsexual
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An individual who seeks or has undergone a social transition from male to female or female to male; a somatic transition by cross-sectional hormone treatment and genital surgery
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Hypochondriasis
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Preoccupation with acquiring or having an illness
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Dysphonia
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Reduced speech volume
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Aphonia
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Absent speech volume
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Dysarthria
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Altered articulation
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Globus
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A lump in the throat
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Diplopia
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Double vision
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La bell indifference
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Lack of concern for nature and implications of symptoms
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Malingering
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Feigning disorder for financial gain
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Factitious disorder |
Feigning a disorder without wanting financial
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Disassociative fugue
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Traveling somewhere and not knowing how one got there
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Déjà vu
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Have I seen this before?
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Jamais vu |
I should know this but I don't
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Localized amnesia
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Amnesia for a certain time; for example a traumatic event
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Generalized amnesia
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Complete loss of memory
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Systematized amnesia
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Loss of memory about a certain subject or a person
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Continuous amnesia
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Forget every new event as it occurs
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Intellectual functioning
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Reasoning, problem solving, planning, judgement judgment
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Adaptive functioning |
Communication, social participation, activities of daily living
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Verbal dyspraxia
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Speech production problems
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Circumlocution
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Substitute words for other words
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Dyslexia
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Poor decoding of words, inaccurate word recognition
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Dyscalculia
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Poor processing of numerical information, math facts, and/or inaccurate calculation
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Copropraxia
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Sexual or obscene gestures
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Palilalia
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Repeating one's own sounds or words
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Coprolalia
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Uttering obscene or socially unacceptable words
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Alexithymia
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Deficits in the cognitive processing of emotions
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Vaginismus
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Tightening or tensing of pelvic floor muscles
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Vaginoplasty
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Creating a vagina
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Phalloplasty
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Creating a penis |
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Androphilia
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Attraction to male |
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Gynophilia |
Attraction to females |
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Asphyxiophilia
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Gaining sexual gratification from restricted breathing |
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Autogynephilia |
Gaining sexual gratification from fantasy of being a female
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