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| emotional feeling or mood |
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| significantly dulled emotional tone or outward reaction |
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| a lack of interest or display of emotion |
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| a state of unresponsiveness to one’s outside environment, usually including muscle rigidity, staring, and inability to communicate |
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| persistent belief that has no basis in reality |
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| a person’s false belief that he or she possesses great wealth, intelligence, or power |
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| a person’s false belief that someone is plotting against him or her with intent to harm |
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| a restless, dissatisfied mood |
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| an exaggerated, unfounded feeling of well-being |
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| a false perception of the senses for which there is no reality, most commonly hearing or seeing things (alucinor = to wander in mind) |
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| the formation of thoughts or ideas; for example, suicidal ideation (thoughts of suicide) |
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| state of abnormal elation and increased activity |
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| a psychologic condition in which anxiety is prominent |
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| a mental condition characterized by distortion of reality resulting in the inability to communicate or function within one’s environment |
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| thought that lacks clear processing or logical direction |
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| major depression = major depressive illness = clinical depression = major affective disorder = unipolar disorder |
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| a disorder causing periodic disturbances in mood that affect concentration, sleep, activity, appetite, and social behavior; characterized by feelings of worthlessness, fatigue, and loss of interest |
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| a milder affective disorder characterized by a chronic depression |
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| manic depression = bipolar disorder |
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| seasonal affective disorder |
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| affective disorder characterized by mood swings of mania and depression (extreme up and down states) |
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| seasonal affective disorder (SAD) |
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| an 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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| affective disorder characterized by mood swings of mania and depression (extreme up and down states) |
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| generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) |
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| the most common anxiety disorder, characterized by chronic, excessive, uncontrollable worry about everyday problems; affects the ability to relax or concentrate but does not usually interfere with social interactions or employment; physical symptoms include muscle tension, trembling, twitching, fatigue, headaches, nausea, and insomnia |
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| a disorder of sudden, recurrent attacks of intense feelings, including physical symptoms that mimic a heart attack (rapid heart rate, chest pain, shortness of breath, chills, sweating, and dizziness), with a general sense of loss of control or feeling that death is imminent; often progresses to agoraphobia |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| posttraumatic stress disorder |
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| exaggerated fear of a specific object or circumstance that causes anxiety and panic; named for the object or circumstance, such as agoraphobia (marketplace), claustrophobia (confinement), and acrophobia (high places) |
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| posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
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| a condition resulting from an extremely traumatic experience, injury, or illness that leaves the sufferer with persistent thoughts and memories of the ordeal; may occur after a war, violent personal assault, physical or sexual abuse, serious accident, or natural disaster; symptoms include feelings of fear, detachment, exaggerated startle response, restlessness, nightmares, and avoidance of anything or any one who triggers the painful recollections |
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| obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) |
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| an anxiety disorder featuring unwanted, senseless obsessions accompanied by repeated compulsions; can interfere with all aspects of a person’s daily life, for example, the thought that a door is not locked with repetitive checking to make sure it is locked , or thoughts that one’s body has been contaminated causing repetitive washing |
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| a 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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| obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| a developmental disability commonly appearing during the first three years of life, resulting from a neurologic disorder affecting brain function, evidenced by difficulties with verbal and nonverbal communication, and an inability to relate to anything beyond oneself (auto = self) in social interactions; persons with autism often exhibit body movements such as rocking and repetitive hand movements; they commonly become preoccupied with observing parts of small objects or moving parts or performing meaningless rituals |
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| a developmental disability characterized by a difficulty understanding written or spoken words, sentences, or paragraphs, affecting reading, spelling, and self-expression |
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| attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |
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| a dysfunction characterized by consistent hyperactivity, distractibility, and lack of control over impulses, which interferes with ability to function normally at school, home, or work |
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| a condition of subaverage intelligence characterized by an IQ of 70 or below, resulting in the inability to adapt to normal social activities |
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| attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |
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| a severe disturbance in eating behavior caused by abnormal perceptions about one’s body weight, evidenced by an overwhelming fear of becoming fat that results in a refusal to eat and body weight well below normal |
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| an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by efforts to limit digestion through induced vomiting, use of laxatives, or excessive exercise |
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| substance abuse disorders |
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| mental disorders resulting from abuse of substances such as drugs, alcohol, or other toxins, causing personal and social dysfunction; identified by the abused substance, such as alcohol abuse, amphetamine abuse, opioid (narcotic) abuse, and polysubstance abuse |
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| a disease of brain chemistry causing a distorted cognitive and emotional perception of one’s environment; symptoms include distortions of normal function such as disorganized thought, delusions, hallucinations, and catatonic behavior; negative symptoms (normal reactions missing in person with schizophrenia) include flat affect, apathy, and withdrawal from reality |
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| electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) |
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| electrical shock applied to the brain to induce convulsions; used to treat severely depressed patients |
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| use of specialized illuminating light boxes and visors to treat seasonal affective disorder |
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| treatment of psychiatric disorders using verbal and nonverbal interaction with patients, individually or in a group, employing specific actions and techniques |
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| treatment to decrease or stop unwanted behavior |
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| treatment to change unwanted patterns of thinking |
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| electroconvulsive therapy |
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| medications used to treat mental illnesses (trop/o = a turning) |
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| drugs used to treat psychosis, especially schizophrenia |
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| drugs used to reduce anxiety |
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| drugs used to reduce anxiety |
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