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| Fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or embarrassing or in which help is unavailable in the event of a panic attack |
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| Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) |
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| Condition marked by a lengthy history of irresponsible and/or illegal actions |
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| Anxiety disorders are a category of mental disorders characterized by feelings of anxiety and fear, where anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events |
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| Condition marked by a history of at least one manic episode |
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| Repetitive behavior or mental act performed to reduce or prevent stress |
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| Strongly held fixed belief that has no basis in reality |
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| Perspective proposing that mental disorders are a joint product of a genetic vulnerability, called a diathesis, and stressors that trigger this vulnerability |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) |
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| Condition characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states that recurrently take control of the persons behavior |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| Continual feeling of worry, anxiety, physical tension, and irritability across many areas of life functioning |
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| Sensory perception that occurs in the absence of an external stimulus |
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| Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) |
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| State in which a person experiences a lingering depressed mood or diminished interest in pleasurable activities, along with symptoms that include weight loss and sleep difficulties |
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| A group of diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classification system where a disturbance in the person's mood is hypothesized to be the main underlying feature |
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| Persistent idea, thought, or urge that is unwanted, causing marked distress |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) |
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| Condition marked by repeated and lengthy immersion in obsessions, compulsions, or both |
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| Repeated and unexpected panic attacks, along with either persistent concerns about future attacks or change in personal behavior in an attempt to avoid them |
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| Condition in which personality traits, appearing first in adolescence, are inflexible, stable, expressed in a wide variety of situations, and lead to distress or impairment |
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| Intense fear of an object or a situation thats greatly out of proportion to its actual threat |
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| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
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| Marked emotional disturbance after experiencing or witnessing a severely stressful event |
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| Mental or behavioral pattern that causes either suffering or a poor ability to function in ordinary life |
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| Refers to an abnormal condition of the mind described as involving a "loss of contact with reality" |
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| Severe disorder of thought and emotion associated with a loss of contact with reality |
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