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| uneasy, anxious, distressed |
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| hallucination, to wander in the mind |
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| fear (irrational and often disabling) |
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| External expression of emotion; emotional response. |
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| Fear of leaving home or leaving a safe place.; fear of being alone in open or public places |
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| Central nervous system stimulants. |
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| Eating disorder of excessive dieting and refusal to maintain a normal body weight. |
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| Characterized by lack of loyalty or concern for others and lack of moral standards. |
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| Characterized by unpleasant tensions, distress, and avoidance behavior; examples are phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic distress disorder. |
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| Drug that relieves anxiety and produces a relaxing effect. |
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| Absence of emotions; lack of interest or emotional involvement. |
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| A pervasive developmental disorder characterized by delays in socialization and communication skills; often considered a less severe type of autism. |
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| Severe lack of responsiveness to others, preoccupation with inner thoughts, withdrawal and retarded language development. |
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| Preoccupation with self-centered, illogical ideas and fantasies that exclude the external world. |
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| Drugs used to treat anxiety and panic attacks. |
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| Mood disorder with alternating periods of mania and depression. |
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| Instability in interpersonal relationships and sense of self; alternating involvement with and rejection of people. |
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| Eating disorder marked by binge eating followed by vomiting, purging (defecation), and depression. |
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| Active substance in marijuana; THC. |
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| A state of diminished responsiveness to stimuli associated with schizophrenia. |
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| A type of schizophrenia marked by inability to move or react to the environment. |
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| Fear of closed-in places. |
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| Cognitive behavior therapy |
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| Changing behavior patterns and responses by training and repetition and learning how thinking patterns cause symptoms, such as anger, anxiety and depression. |
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| Uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeatedly. |
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| A physical symptom appears with no organic basis and as a result of anxiety and inner conflict. |
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| Patient experiences alternating states of depression and exhilaration; mild form of bipolar disorder. |
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| Unconscious technique (coping mechanism) that a person uses to resolve or conceal conflicts and anxiety. |
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| Confusion in thinking; faulty perceptions and irrational behavior. |
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| Confusion in thinking, anxiety, tremors, and sweating occurring with withdrawal from excessive and habitual use of alcohol. |
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| Fixed, false belief that cannot be changed by logical reasoning or evidence. |
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| Loss of higher mental functioning, including memory, judgment, and reasoning. |
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| Major mood disorder marked by chronic and excessive sadness, loss of energy, hopelessness, worry, and discouragement. |
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| Chronic or sudden disturbance of memory, identity, or consciousness; examples are multiple-personality disorder and psychogenic amnesia. |
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| Sadness, hopelessness, and depressive mood; feeling “low.” |
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| Depressive episodes, but not of the same intensity or duration as major depression. |
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| Central, coordinating branch of the personality. |
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| Electroconvulsive therapy |
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| Electric current produces a convulsive seizure to treat mood disorders (depression or the depressive phase of bipolar disorder); used in patients who are resistant to drug therapy or when rapid response is needed. |
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| Exaggerated feeling of well-being; elevated mood, “high.” |
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| Compulsive need to expose one’s body, particularly the genitals, to an unsuspecting stranger. |
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| Treatment of an entire family to resolve and understand their conflicts and problems. |
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| Use of non-living objects, such as articles of clothing, as substitutes for a human sexual love object. |
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| Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient is encouraged to reveal thoughts one after another without censorship. |
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| Flight from customary surroundings; dissociate disorder. |
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| Strong and persistent cross-gender identification with the opposite sex. |
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| Patients with similar problems gain insight into their personalities through discussion and interaction together. |
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| False or unreal sensory perception; hearing voices and seeing things. |
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| A substance that causes hallucinations (false sensory perceptions). |
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| Highly emotional, immature, and dependent personality type with irrational outbursts, tantrums and flamboyant, theatrical behavior. |
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| Induction of a trance-like state to consciousness in a patient to increase the pace of psychotherapy. |
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| Exaggerated concern about one’s health. |
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| Condition marked by exaggerated concern for one’s physical health and exaggeration of minor complaints and normal sensations. |
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| Elevated excitement that is of lesser intensity than mania. |
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| Major unconscious part of the personality; instinctual drives and desires. |
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| Face to face discussion of life problems and feelings to increase understanding of thoughts and behavior patterns; psychodynamic therapy. |
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| Strong impulse to steal, often with little actual desire for the stolen item. |
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| Unstable; undergoing rapid emotional change. |
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| Drug used to treat the manic episodes in bipolar disorder. |
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| State of excessive excitability, hyperactive elation and agitation. |
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| Prolonged emotion dominates a person’s life; bipolar and depressive disorders. |
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| Non-reactive state; stupor. |
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| Characterized by grandiose sense of self-importance or preoccupation with fantasies of success or power; self-love without empathy for others. |
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| Antipsychotic drugs used to treat psychoses such as schizophrenia and severe depression; examples are atypical antipsychotics such as aripiprazole (Abilify) and olanzapine (Zyprexa). |
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| Repressed conflicts lead to mental symptoms such as anxiety and fears that disturb ability to function; less serious mental disorder than a psychosis. |
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| An involuntary, persistent idea or emotion. |
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| Obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| Anxiety disorder involving recurrent thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive actions (compulsions) that dominate a patient’s life. |
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| Drug derived from opium. Examples are cocaine, morphine, and heroin. |
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| Overly suspicious system of thinking with fixed delusions that one is being harassed, persecuted or unfairly treated. |
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| Characterized by recurrent delusions of persecution and jealousy with suspicion and mistrust of other people; quick to take offense. |
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| Recurrent, intense sexual urge; fantasy or behavior that involves unusual objects, activities and situations. |
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| Need for sexual gratification with a child. |
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| Established, lifelong pattern marked by inflexibility and impairment of social functioning. |
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| Drugs used to treat serious mental illnesses or psychoses. They modify psychotic symptoms (delusions and hallucinations) and behavior. |
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| Irrational fear of an object or an situation; claustrophobia (closed spaces), agoraphobia (leaving home or a safe place) and acrophobia (heights) are examples. |
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| A child, through play, uses toys to express conflicts and feelings that he or she is unable to communicate in a direct manner. |
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| Post-traumatic stress disorder |
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| Anxiety disorder that follows a traumatic incident; symptoms such as intense fear, helplessness, insomnia, nightmares and less responsiveness to the external world. |
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| Diagnostic personality test using unstructured stimuli (inkblots, pictures, incomplete sentences) to evoke responses that reflect aspects of an individual’s personality. |
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| Physician who treats the mind and mental disorders. |
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| Treatment of the mind and mental disorders. |
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| Form of psychotherapy in which the patient explores his or her unconscious emotions and past to understand and change current behavior and feelings. |
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| A group therapy in which a patient expresses feelings by acting out roles with other patients. |
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| Pertaining to produced within the mind, having emotional and psychologic origin, rather than a physical cause. |
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| Individual (Ph.D or Ed.D) specializing in mental processes and how the brain functions in health and disease; treats patients with psychotherapy, but cannot prescribe drugs. |
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| Study of the effect of drugs on the mind. |
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| Loss of contact with reality; often with delusions and hallucinations. |
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| Pertaining to the inter-relationship of the mind (psych/o) and body (somat/o). |
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| Strong impulse (obsessive urge) to set objects on fire. |
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| Ability to perceive fact from fantasy. |
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| Defense mechanism by which unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and impulses are automatically pushed into the unconscious. |
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| Traits of shyness, social withdrawal, and introversion that characterize the schizoid personality. Also, can refer to schizophrenia-like traits that indicate a predisposition to schizophrenia. |
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| Emotionally cold and aloof, as if split off from other people; indifferent to praise or criticism or to the feelings of others. |
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| Psychosis marked by withdrawal from reality into an inner world of disorganized thinking and conflict. |
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| Drugs that lessen anxiety. |
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| Conditions involving sexual use of nonhuman objects and acts involving suffering, humiliation, and non-consenting partners. Disorders also include sexual dysfunctions such as inhibition of sexual desire or changes in sexual responses. |
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| Sexual gratification gained by being mutilated, beaten, or bound or otherwise made to suffer by another person. |
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| Sexual gratification gained by inflicting physical or psychologic pain or harm on others. |
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| Conditions in which the patient has physical or bodily symptoms that cannot be explained by any actual physical illness. |
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| Substance-related disorders |
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| Regular overuse of psychoactive substances (alcohol, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, opioids, sedatives), which can affect the central nervous system. |
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| Internalized conscious and judgmental and moral part of the mind. |
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| Treatment that involves offering encouragement, support, and hope to patients facing difficult life transitions and events. |
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| Development of insensitivity to a drug; increasing doses of a drug are needed to produce a desired effect. |
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| Process by which a patient relates to a therapist as though the therapist were a prominent childhood figure. |
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| Cross-dressing by a male in women’s attire. |
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| Tricyclic antidepressants |
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| Group of drugs used to treat severe depression. |
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| Abnormal desire to look at sexual organs or watch sexual acts. |
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