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cata-

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down

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hypn/o

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sleep

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-iatrist

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one who treats

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-mania

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madness

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ment/o

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mind

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-philia

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attraction to

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-phobia

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abnormal fear

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-phoria

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emotional state

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psych/o

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mind

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schiz/o

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split

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cognitive disorders

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amnesia
delirium
dementia

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substance-related disorders

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substance abuse
dependence
intoxication

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schizophrenia

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paranoid

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mood disorders

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bi-polar
cyclothymic
major depressive

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anxiety disorders

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generalized anxiety
panic
phobic
obsessive-compulsive
post traumatic stress disorder
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somatoform, sleep, and factitious disorders

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conversion
hypochondrisis
Munchhausen syndrome
narcolepsy
pain disorders
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eating disorders

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anorexia nervosa

bulimia nervosa

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personality disorders

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antisocial personality disorder
borderline personality
narcissistic personality
paranoid personality
schizoid personality
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compensation

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effort to overcome, or make up for, real or imagined inadequacies

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denial

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refusal to admit or acknowledge the reality of something

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displacement

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process of transferring a feeling or emotion from original idea to a substitute idea

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introjection

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person unconsciously identifies with another person

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projection

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transferring unacceptable thoughts or feelings to someone else

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rationalization

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attempting to make excuses or invent logical reasons to justify feelings or behaviors

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regression

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a response to stress in which individual reverts to an earlier level of development

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repression

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involuntary blocking of feelings and experiences

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sublimation

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redirecting impulses and drives into constructive activities

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suppression

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voluntary blocking of unpleasant feeling and experiences from the mind

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apathy

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absence of observable emotion, feeling, concern or passion

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cataplexy

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sudden loss of muscle tone in which the individual’s head may drop

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delirium

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state of frenzied excitement or wild enthusiasm

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delirium tremens (DT)

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acute and sometimes fatal psychotic reaction caused by quitting drinking

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delusion

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abnormal belief held firmly by a person despite evidence

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dysphoria

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a disorder characterized by depression and anguish

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euphoria

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sense of well-being or elation

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hallucination

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perception of something that does not exist in the external environment

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hypomania

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a mild degree of mania characterized by optimism

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lithium

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a drug used in treating the manic phase of bipolar disorder

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paraphilia

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sexual perversion or deviation

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phobia

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an anxiety disorder by an obsessive, irrational, intense fear

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psychodrama

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people act out their emotional problems

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psychosis

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any major disorder of organic or emotional origin, loss of reality

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psychosomatic

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the expression of an emotional conflict through physical symptoms

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purging

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means of ridding the body of what has been consumed

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sexual sadism

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the act of inflicting psychological or physical suffering on a victim

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sexual masochism

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the act of being made to suffer

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aut/o

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neur/o

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phren/o

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somat/o

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-thymia

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condition of the mind or will

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frotteurism

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a sexual disorder in which the person gains sexual stimulation or excitement by rubbing against a non consenting person

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fetishism, transvestic

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cross- dressing

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ADD

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attention- deficit disorder

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ADHD

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attention- deficit hyperactivity disorder

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CA

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chronological age

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DSM

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diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

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DT

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delirium tremens

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ECT

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electroconvulsive therapy

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IQ

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intelligence quotient

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MA

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mental age

62
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OCD

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obsessive- compulsive disease

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