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What is abnormal psychology

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scientific study for mental illness,disorders and anything that needs treatment and prevention

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Why do people not seek therapy

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because its expensive, people might live far away, ignorance and stigma that were going to be poorly judged and negative eugenics

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What is MSS

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Medical student syndrome, it is when you self diagnose

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What are the 4 D’s

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Deviant,Distressing,dysfunctional and dangerous

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What is deviant

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When were different from the rest of people

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What is distressing

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This applies to either the person or others but can also be non disordered

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What is dysfunctional

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Interfere with abilities and carries out everyday with activity life

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What is dangerous

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When people are displaying them and those around them

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What is the demonic model

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When people didn’t know what mental illnesses were and thought to be behaving abnormally so they did evil things to punish them

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What is the medical model

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during the renaissance changes happend, and the belief of mental illness was bio based

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who is pinel

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Imporved mentally ill people.

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How can syphilis impact our mental health

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If left untreated, a bacteria can affect something in the brain that gives us mental illness

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What is the limitation when dealing with medical problems and mental health

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We need to take in consideration the bio factors and disregard the others

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What is the biopsychosocial perspective

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We need to take into consideration nature/nurture,bio effects , psych and social factors

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What is the type of classification in the world of psychology?

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The DSM

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What is the full name of the DSM

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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What is the DSM used for

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A reference book for mental health professionals

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What does the DSM give

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Organizes disorder symptoms and the criteria that must be met to diagnose someone. It does not offer any explanation

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What are the cons of the DSM

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Overbloated ( too many categories) , reliant on medical modal and lack of reliability.

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How are labels negative

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Biasing power, we see through the filter of labels,they are always perceived by the label , biases in professionals

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How are labels positive

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relief to someone,more understanding, facilitates communication with professionals

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What is the person fist language

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Someone who suffers from mental illness and it not who they are, but what is apart of them

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What is identity first language

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They are the mental illness and they own it

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What is the importance of both of these languages

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To reduce stigma and not feel ashamed

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When do we classify neurodevelopment disorders

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At birth

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What does ASD stand for

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Autism spectrum disorder

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What is the meaning for spectrum in ASD

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the level of severity and the development

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What are the symptoms of ASD

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social deficient, Emotional deficiency, cognitve, attention,flexibility in thinking, perspective, abnormal reactions, interests and sameness.

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How doe the hallmark affect us

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all aspects of humanity is affected

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What is schizophrenia also known for

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the cancer of mental illness

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Who does schizophrenia affect more

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Young adulthood

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What gender is most affected by schizophrenia

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It hits harder for men

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What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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Delusion,hallucinations ,Disorganized thinking , disorganized emotions ,disorganized behaviours , disorganized speech , attention and catatonia.

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What are delusions

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high irrational beliefs not real

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What is hallucinations

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perception of stimulus without stimulus

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What is disorganized thinking

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Not being able to think straight

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What is disorganized emotions

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emotions are inappropriate to situations

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What is disorganized behaviour

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Behaviours inappropriate to the situation

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What is disorganized speach

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Speech is incoherent ( word salad)

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How is our attention when diagnosed with schizophrenia

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We cant focus on what were supposed to have attention on

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What is catatonia

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We stay in a body position and we dont move for hours,or days

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What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia

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Flat affect,avolition ,attentional deficits and social withdrawl

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What is the flat affect

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Difficulty of expression emotions and feeling

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What is anolition

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no motivation at all

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What is alogia

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Total absence of speech

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What are the cognitive deficits

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Attention, working memory and executive function

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What is bipolar and related disorders

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Cycling between 2 extreme moods.

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What are some mania symptoms

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Increased energy , euphoric mood, extreme irritability,overtalkative.distractability,unrealistc beliefs , increase sexual drive,abuse of drugs, aggressive behaviours, denial that everything is wrong,psychotic episodes

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What is hypomania

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same symptoms as mania but less intese

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what is the one difference with mania and hypomania

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No psychotic episodes

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What is bipolar I

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Alternating between major depression and mania

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what is Bipolar II

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Alternating between major depression and hypomania

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what is cyclothymic disorder

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Alternating between mild depression and hypomania

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What is good about fear and anxiety

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They are essential for survival,keeps us safe and help pursue our goals

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What is maladaptive fear and anxiety

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Overexagerated ,uncontrollable and dysfunctional that affects our everyday activities

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What is one thing that anxiety disorders have in common

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They all have maladaptive anxiety

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What is agoraphobia

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Terrified of public places , terrified of what can happen in public places and become dependant of others

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What is the main feature of OCD

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They are connected with maladaptive anxiety

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Why did they move OCD into their own category

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because they have 2 features they don’t share with it

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When is ocd bad

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When it becomes abnormal (destructive ) or obsessed where its fair fetch and causes high levels of distress and anxiety

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What are compulsions

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Behaviours and mental acts that we feel pressured to do them over and over again.

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What happens when we resist complusions

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We explode and it becomes bigger, we seek vengance

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What is the link between hoarding and complusions

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The need to save everything in our possession , difficult to get rid of stuff

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what is difficult about hoarding

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the need to cover everything and anything

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How is hoarding dangerous

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It affects relationships and our own health

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What is the full name of PTSD

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

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How can ptsd develop

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Sever trauma or very intense stress

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what is a direct situation to ptsd

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You are living it

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what is vicarious situation of ptsd

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You are watching it happen

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What is reliving in ptsd

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reliving trauma , like were there again

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what happens to arrousal and reactivity in ptsd

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Nervous system is arroused , like being in flight or fight

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What is avoidance in ptsd

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avoiding any stimulus that can trigger us by shutting down

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what is cognitives and moods in ptsd

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When our moods shift

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How can dissociative disorders appear

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results in trauma

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what is dissociation

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when we disconnect psychologically, from our body and own identities

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What is a negative symptom of dissociation

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Memory, where were going to lose memories and not aware of them

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What are some positive symptoms

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Depersonalization where we disconnect from ourself like were watching from a distance
Derealization were we disconnect from the world
Identity , where we disconnect from our own identity

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How does dissociative identity happen

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in childhood trauma

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what does DID compose of

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Multiple personality

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How can subpersonalities interact

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they might not be aware of each other, they know each other and might or might not get along or they are aware but some are not aware

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What is somatic symptoms disorder

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Overly concerend with the symptoms were experiencing

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What is factitious disorder

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going out of our way to look ill and pretend we are and making us look ill

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Munchausen syndrome by proxy is what

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We do everything is our power so that the person under our care is always sick

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how is Munchausen syndrome by proxy difficult to diagnose

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Because the people take them away when suspision arise

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What is the motivation in anorexia

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Being terrified of fat and gaining weight, so restrictive caloric intake to the point of starvation

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What is the motivation of feeding disorders

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afraid of food by texture,colour

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what is bulimia nervosa

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binge eating episodes followed by ways of getting rid of calories like laxative, self vomiting or excerise

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What is binge eating disorder

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When we have a binge episode but nothing else

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What is personality

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Typical way we think ,fee and behave

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What is a personality disorder

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the way of thinking,feeling or behaving is inflexble ,maladaptive and violate social norms

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what is cluster A in personality disorders

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Odd and eccentric where there’s extreme social detachment , extreme suspicion and mistrust of others

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What is cluster B in personality disorders

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Dramtical,emotional and erratic, where its poor impulse contral,emotion and behaviour regulation

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What is cluster C in personality disorders

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Fearful and anxious where they are overly dependant on others for the simplest decisions. they are prefectionsist but wont accomplish anything

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Where does borderline personality disorder stem from

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Cluster B

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What are the symptoms of someone with borderline personality disorder

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strong and uncontrollable emotions,bouts,depression or anger,abandonment,emptiness,impulse control and suicide

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