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Disorder

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syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognitive, emotional behavior

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Components for a disorder

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  • disruptive to everyday life
  • uncontrollable behavior
  • irrational
  • persistent
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DSM-5

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Diagnostic and Statistical manual of Mental Disorders

  • describes symptoms + diagnostic guidelines for disorders
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Insanity

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unable to determine between right and wrong or understand consequences

-use in legal definition only

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Anxiety

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unpleasant emotional state characterized by general, vague feelings of tension, fear and apprehension

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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constant worry about many issues without cause
- interferes with functioning

•Symptoms:

- headaches 
- stomach aches 
- muscle tension 
- irritability
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Panic Disorder

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panic attacks: sudden episodes of helpless terror w/ high physiological arousal (BP, heartbeat temp rises)

  • very frightening; live in terror of having them
  • Agoraphobia develops
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Agoraphobia

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fear of being in situation of difficult escape

  • don’t feel safe in public places/crowd
  • confined to home (feel safe)
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Specific Phobias

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intense irrational fear and inappropriate response

• Categories:

- environment (thunder)
- situational type (darkness)
- injury/blood (needles)
- animals (spiders)
  • top 3 phobias= snakes, heights, mice
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PTSD

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follows event that produce intense horror of helplessness
- actual/threatened death or injury (war, abuse, rape)

*may be delayed after event- onset w/ trigger

•Symptoms:

- frequent recollection of traumatic event 
- avoidance of situations that trigger event 
- increased physical arousal associated w/ stress
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OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder)

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  • obsessions: irrational disturbing thoughts that turns into compulsions
  • compulsions: repetitive actions performed to alleviate obsessions
  • compulsions help keep away obsessions
  • if actions aren’t performs=anxiety
  • observable or mental compulsions
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Hoarding disorders

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compulsive collecting, poor organizational skills and difficultly getting rid of stuff

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Excoriation

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skin picking sometimes to the point of injury

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Trichotillomania

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hair pulling from scalp, eyebrows and other body ares; leads to bald spots

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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preoccupation w/ imagined or slight flaws in ones physical appearance

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Personality Disorder

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characterized by pattern of long term behavior that deviates from social expectations

-cause problems w/ relationships + society

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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  • inability of self image, relationships
  • self destructive behavior
  • fear of abandonment
  • all or nothing; good or bad; black or white
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Dependent Personality Disorder

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  • unable to make decisions or do things on own

- excessive need to be taken of

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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  • self-importance
  • success fantasies
  • need for more attention
  • envy
  • arrogance> others inferior
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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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  • might start as conduct disorder (children)
  • manipulative, charming, “con-man”
  • cruel and destructive
  • lacking conscience, no guilt/responsibility
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Sociopaths — Antisocial Personality Disorder

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  • Cause: environment made them
  • Attachment: emotionally attach + feel remorse when hurting those cares about
  • Presentation: less organized, nervous, easily angered, quick to display anger, impulsive
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Psychopaths — Antisocial Personality Disorder

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  • Cause: nothing
  • Attachment: no remorse for anyone
  • Presentation: cons/manipulates others pretending to be normal, aware of doing wrong and don’t care
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Dissociative Amnesia

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memory loss is only symptom
- no physical cause

often selective memory loss surrounding traumatic event
- knows identity + past

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Fugue State

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amnesia w/ journey involved often w/ identity replacement

  • leaves home
  • new identity
  • can’t remember former life

If wears off:

  • old identity recovers
  • new identity forgotten
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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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  • 2+ distinct personalities manifested by same person at different times
  • rare/controversial
  • torture, sexual abuse as children, shows symptoms of PTSD
    •prior 10

most psychologists don’t believe this

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Psychotic

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loss of contact w/ reality- irrational, distorted

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Schizophrenia

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  • hallucinations: seeing/hearings things,someone/something giving orders
  • Delusions: paranoia, grandeur(god complex), feel like being controlled
  • Disorganized: jumping from idea-idea with no logic, paralogical, behavior/emotion inappropriate,
  • Catalonia: unresponsive to surroundings, patriot-like speech, immortalized for times
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Where does Schizophrenia come from?

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  • Nature: genetic predisposition, prenatal factors

- Nurture: cognitive impairments, social anxiety, social stress, isolation, drug/abuse

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Major Depression

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extreme/persistent of despondency, worthlessness and hopelessness that disturb everyday life

  • behavioral symptoms: helplessness, worthlessness, hopelessness
  • emotional symptoms: crying, isolation
  • cognitive symptoms: trouble thinking,
    concentrating, remembering, suicidal thoughts
  • physical symptoms: don’t eat//eat too much, sleep//not sleep at all
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Seasonal Affective Disorder

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episodes of depression occur in fall + winter then subside in spring and summer
(seasonal regularity)

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Dysthymic Disorder

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chronic, low grade, depressed feelings that aren’t severe enough to be major depression

  • may develop due to trauma but not decrease w/ time
  • usually doesn’t severely impair functioning
  • has to occur for 2 years
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Bipolar

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moods levels swing from severe depression to extreme euphoria, can have normal in between

  • no regular relationship to time of year
  • very in length of time for depression + mania
  • must have 1 manic episode
    • supreme confidence
    • flight of ideas

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