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| Antisocial personality disorder |
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| Psychological disorder characterized by guiltlessness, law-breaking, exploitation of others, irresponsibility, and deceit. |
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| attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder |
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One of the most common psychological disorders of childhood, in which individuals show one or more of the following: inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
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| Disabling (uncontrollable and disruptive) psychological disorders that feature motor tension, hyperactivity, and apprehensive expectations and thoughts. |
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Mood disorder characterized by extreme mood swings that include one or more episodes of mania, an overexcited, unrealistically optimistic state.
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False, unusual, and sometimes magical beliefs that are not part of an individual's culture.
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| The display of little or no emotion—a common negative symptom of schizophrenia. |
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| Sensory experiences that occur in the absence of real stimuli. |
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| An individual's acquisition of feelings of powerlessness when he or she is exposed to aversive circumstances, such as prolonged stress, over which that individual has no control. |
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| Psychological disorders—the main types of which are depressive disorders and bipolar disorder—in which there is a primary disturbance of mood: prolonged emotion that colors the individual's entire emotional state. |
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| Obsessive-compulsive disorder: |
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Anxiety disorder in which the individual has anxiety-provoking thoughts that will not go away and/or urges to perform repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to prevent or produce some future situation.
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| Anxiety disorder in which the individual experiences recurrent, sudden onsets of intense terror, often without warning and with no specific cause. |
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| Chronic, maladaptive cognitive-behavioral patterns that are thoroughly integrated into an individual's personality. |
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| Anxiety disorder characterized by an irrational, overwhelming, persistent fear of a particular object or situation. |
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Ascribing personal meaning to completely random events.
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| Severe psychological disorder characterized by highly disordered thought processes, referred to as psychotic because they are so far removed from reality. |
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Psychological disorder marked by persistent anxiety for at least 6 months, and in which the individual is unable to specify the reasons for the anxiety.
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