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Disorder categories

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Anxiety disorders
Personality disorders
Mood disorders
ADHD (attention)
Eating disorders
Psychotic disorder

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Psychological disorder

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Clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior

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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

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The appearance of one of more than three key symptoms:
Extreme inattention
Hyperactivity
Impulsivity

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Medical model

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Diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and sometimes cured through treatment in a hospital

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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5)

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A book used to classify psychological disorders

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Insomnia disorder

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Difficulty initiating, maintaining, or returning to sleep
- At least 3 nights per week

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Generalized anixety disorder

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A person is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy

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Panic disorder/panic attack

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A person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread

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Phobias

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A peson is intensely and irrationally afraid of specific object or situation

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

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A person is troubled by repetitive thoughts or actions

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Posttraumatic stress disorder

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memories, nightmares, and other symptoms for weeks after severely threatening, uncontrollable event

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Social anxiety disorder (social phobia)

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Intense fear of social situations, leaving to avoidance of being in such situations

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Agoraphobia

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Fear or avoidance of situations that have crowds or wide open places, where one feels the loss of control and panic

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Posttraumatic growth

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Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises

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Mood disorder

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Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes

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Major depressive disorder

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Prolonged hopelessness and lethargy
two or more weeks with 5 or more symptoms

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Bipolar disorder

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Manic-depressive disorder
Alternates between depression and mania, an overexcited hyperactive state

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Rumination

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Compulsive fretting
Overthinking about our problems and causes

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Schizophrenia

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A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression

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Acute Schizophrenia

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-Symptoms happen quicker
-Harder to recover from

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Chronic Schizophrenia

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Symptoms happen over several years

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Psychosis

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A disorder where a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions

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Delusions

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False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorder

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Positive symptoms

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Adding something, adding a belief that isn’t there

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Hallucinations

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False sensory experience

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Flat affect

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Emotionless state in schizophrenia

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Types of schizophrenia

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-Paranoid
-Catatonic
-Disorganized
-Undifferentiated
-Residual

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Paranoid schizophrenia

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-Positive symptoms
-Hallucinations
-delusions

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Persecution

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type of delusion
-The government is out to get you

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Grandeur

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type of delusion
-You’re amazing, you’re gonna do something great like save the world

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Catatonic schizophrenia

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-Remaining motionless for hours and then becoming agitated
-More negative

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Residual

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-After treatment
-Still kind of there but better

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Somatic symptom disorder

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Disorder in which the symptoms take somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause

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Conversion disorder

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A disorder where a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found (functional neurological symptom disorder)

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Illness anxiety disorder

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A disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of disease (hypochondriasis)

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Dissociative disorder

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A disorder in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

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Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

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A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct alternating personalities

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Personality disorders

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Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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antisocial personality disorder

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-Exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members
-It may be an aggressive and ruthless or clever con artist
-Sociopathic tendencies

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Neurosis

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Distortion of reality

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Borderline personality disorder

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-Low self-esteem
-Switch into a personality they think would please other people

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narcissistic personality disorder

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Thinks they are better than everyone else

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Global

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i’m stupid and am always gonna do badly

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stable

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failed because I didn’t study

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Somatization disorder

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Feeling pain when it doesn’t exist

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