Psychological Disorders

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4 criteria used in determining a psychological disorder.

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Manipulative: Interfering with daily life(keep checking something)

Atypical: No typical behavior (boy in dress)

Disturbing: creepy/uncomfortable

Irrational: Phobias

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System used by Clinicians in diagnosing psychological disorders.

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (Dsm) (5th addition)

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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contentiously aroused, intense. Cant bring yourself to do it.

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Phobia

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Present and irrational fear, avoidance of object and a situation.

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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Unwanted repetitive. Thoughts and actions

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Panic disorder

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Feeling of dread. Physical response to stress. Panic attacks. (dying)

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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(shell shock) Dramatic horrifying experience. (nightmares)

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Dissociative amnesia

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selective memory loss brought on by extreme stress.

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dissociative fugue

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person fleas from home and identity uncontinusly and starts a new life.

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dissociative identity dissorder

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2 or more altering personalities

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major depressive disorder

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(common cold) No apparent reason. experience 2 or more weeks of feeling worthless.

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mania

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hyper active and widely active state

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bipolar disorder

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alternates between depression and mania. S.A.D.- water blues

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Paranoid schizophrenic

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thinks people are after them/ hallucinations and illusions

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disorganized schizophrenic

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disorganized speech behavior or flat/ inappropriate emotion.

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Catatonic schizophrenic

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can talk parrot like. Immobility to the body. statue like

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undifferentiated schizophrenic

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have symptoms but not fully disordered. (out of touch with reality)

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antisocial personalty disorder

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clever, serial killers, con artist, lack of conscious, even toward friends and family.

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histrionic personality disorder

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really acting out, want continuous attention. Needs praise and reassurance.

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narcissist personality disorder

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everything revolves around them, they are better than everyone.

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borderline personality disorder

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(14 yr old girl) experience unstable way of thinking, feeling and acting. Unstable identity.

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Paranoid personality disorder

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person suspects without evidence that others are exploiting, harming and deceiving them.

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Schizoid personality disorder

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emotional coldness, detachment or flat effect ( no emotion) don't like to be around others or have relationships.

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schizotypical personality disorder

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odd appearance, like to be around people, but people dont want to be by them

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avoidant personality disorder

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views them self as socially annept, personally unappealing to others. inferior. bad self esteem

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dependent personality disorder

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need to be around other people. cant make everyday accessive decisions without advice or reassurance from others.

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Insanity

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the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness.

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hallucinations

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an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present.

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delusions

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a false belief of opinion

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affect

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feeling or emotion.

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neurosis

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a relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality

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psychosis

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a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.

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seasonal affective disorder

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depression associated with late autumn and winter and thought to be caused by a lack of light.

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conversion disorder

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is a mental health condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis, or other nervous system (neurologic) symptoms that cannot be explained by medical evaluation.

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anorexia

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an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat.

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Bulimia

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an emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting.