Psychiatric Disorders Definitions Flashcards

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A feeling or emotion manifested by facial expression or body language

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Affect

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Absence of interest in or pleasure from performance of acts that would ordinarily be enjoyable

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Anhedonia

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3
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Medication designed to treat anxiety

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Anxiolytic

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Excessive eating beyond amount necessary to satisfy normal appetite

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Binge

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Syndrome of psychomotor retardation characterized by periods of physical rigidity and lack of response to outside stimuli

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Catatonia

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Uncontrollable impulses to perform an act, often repeatedly, as an unconscious mechanism to avoid unacceptable ideas or desires, which by themselves arouse anxiety

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Compulsion

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A false belief or wrong judgment held with conviction despite inconvertible evidence to the contrary

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Delusion

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Behavior that is neither goal directed or guided by rational or preconceived plan

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Disorganized Behavior

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Speech in which the statements are not logically connected to each other

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Disorganized Speech

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An unconscious separation of a group of mental processes from the rest of the conscious awareness

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Dissociation

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Disturbance in amount, quality, or timing of sleep

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Dysomnia

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Higher levels of cognitive/mental functioning including planning, abstraction, inductive reasoning, and organizing

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Executive functioning

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Subjective perception of an object or an event when no such stimulus or situation exists

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Hallucination

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A misinterpretation or false perception of a real sensory stimulus

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Illusion

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Sudden, often unreasonable, determination to perform some act, the performance of which often provides a sense of relief or a release of tension

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Impulse

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Inability to fall or stay asleep in absence of external impediments during the period when sleep should occur

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Insomnia

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Pervasive feeling, tone, or internal emotional state which, when impaired, can markedly influence virtually all aspects of a person’s behavior or perception of external events

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Mood

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State in which the individual interprets and regards everything in relation to himself and not to others

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Narcissism

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Recurrent and persistent idea, thought or impulse to carry out an act

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Obsession

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A belief system that includes extreme suspiciousness and mistrust of others

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Paranoia

21
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Abnormal increase in physical and emotional behavior

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Psychomotor Agitation

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Abnormal slowing in physical and emotional activity

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Psychomotor Retardation

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Mental and behavioral disorder causing gross distortion or disorganization of a person’s mental capacity; A defective response and capacity to recognize reality, communicate and relate to others to the degree of interfering with the person’s capacity to cope with ordinary demands of everyday life

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Psychosis

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To cause copious evacuation of the bowels and stomach by induction of vomiting, use of enemas, or laxatives

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Purge

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An event or situation that induces psychological, emotional or behavioral distress

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Stressor