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mood disorder: major depression, major depressive illness, clinical depression, major affective disorder, unipolar disorder
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disorder causing periodic disturbances in mood that affect concentration, sleep, activiy, appetite, and social behavior; characterized by feelings of worthlessness, fatigue, and loss of interest
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mood disorder: dysthymia
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milder affective disorder characterized by a chronic depression persisting for at least 2 years
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mood disorder: manic depression bipolar disorder (BD)
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affective disorder characterized by mood swings of mania and depression (extreme up and down states)
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mood disorder: seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
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affective disorder marked by episodes of depression that most often occur during the fall and winter and remit in the spring
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Anxiety Disorder: generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
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most common, chronic, excessive, and uncontrollable worry about everyday problems that affects the ability to relax or concentrate. Doesn't interfere with social interactions or employment. Physical symptoms include muscle tension, trembling, twitching, fatigue, headaches, nausea, and insomnia. Symptoms must exist for at least 6 months before a diagnosis can be made.
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Anxiety disorder: panic disorder (PD)
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sudden, recurrent attacks of intense feelings including physical symptoms that mimic a heart attack, i.e. rapid heart rate, chest pain, shortness of breath, chills, sweating, dizziness, general sense of loss of control, feeling that death is imminent, often progresses to agoraphobia.
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anxiety disorder: phobia
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exaggerated fear of a specific object or circumstance that causes anxiety and panic; named for the object or circumstanec, such as agoraphobia (marketplace), claustrophobia (confinement), or acrophobia (high places)
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anxiety disorder: posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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condition resulting from an extremely traumatic experience, injury, or illness that leave sthe sufferer with persistent thoughts and memories of the ordeal. May occur after war, violent personal assault, abuse, accident, natural disaster. Symptoms include fear, detatchment, exaggerated startle response, restlessness, nightmares, and avoiding anything that triggers the painful recollections.
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anxiety disorder: obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
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unwanted, senseless obsessions accompanied by repreated compulsions, which can interfere with all aspects of a person's daily life (i.e. thought that a door is not locked, repetitive checking that it is locked, thoughts that one's body is contaminated with repetitive washing)
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anxiety disorder: hypochondriasis
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preoccupation with thoughts of disease and concern that one is suffering from a serious condition that persists despite medical reassurance to the contrary
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