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Psychiatry Flashcards

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What is Autism?

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Poor eye contact, repetitive movements, lack of verbal skills and bonding
symptoms since birth
Tx: Behavioral modification, use antipsychotic for aggressive behavior

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What is Asperger’s?

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Good communication skills, impaired relationships, no mental retardation

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What is Rett’s

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Only in girls
decreased head growth, lost motor skills, hand-wringing
normal until 5 months of age
Tx: Behavioral therapy and physiotherapy

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What is Childhood Disintegrative Disorder?

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Kid stops talking and walking. (They lose all their milestones)

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What is Selective Mutism?

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Kid talks sometimes

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What is Separation Anxiety Disorder?

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Kid screams when mom leaves

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What is Conduct Disorder?

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Younger than 18 y/o with traits of antisocial disorder: aggressive, disregard for authority/rules, no sense of guilt/remorse, harms animals, illegal activity “bite is worse than bark”. Behavioral therapy and antipsychotic

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What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?

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Breaking the rules, defiant, noncompliant, resists authority, “bark is worse than bite”. Teach appropriate child management skills

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What is ADHD?

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Over activity, short attention span, difficulty in school, must be identified in two different locations (home and school).
Tx: First line- methylphenidate and dectroamphetamine; Second line- Atomoxetine (SNRI)

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How is Major Depression diagnosed?

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Need 5 of 8 "SIGECAPS" for over 2 weeks
Sleep disturbance: wake in early or wake up late
Interest/ libido loss
Guilt
Energy Loss
Concentration Loss
Appetite Loss
Psychomotor Agitation
Suicidal Ideation (hopelessness)
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What is Dysthymia?

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Low level sadness >2 years, looks like depression

Tx: Psychotherapy and SSRI (example: fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, paroxetine, sertraline, citalopram)

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What is cyclothymia?

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Dysthymia with hypomania for more than 2 years

Tx: Lithium, Valproic Acid or Carbamazepine and psychotherapy

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What is Double Depression?

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Depression followed by dysthymia

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What is Bipolar I?

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Mania with or without depression for at least 1 week, as well as period of normal mood

Tx: First line - Lithium, Lamotrigine or Risperidone
Second line - Aripripezole, Divalproex, Quetiapine, Olanzapine, Psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral

Acute Mania: Hospitalize, mood stabilizer (Lithium), acute antipsychotic (Risperidone) and IM phenothiazine - if non-compliant

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What is Bipolar II?

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Depression and Hypomania (no psychosis)

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What are Loose Associations?

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Ideas switch subjects, incoherent

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What is Tangentiality?

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Wanders off the point

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What is Circumstantiality?

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Digresses but finally gets back to the point

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What is Clanging?

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Words that sound alike

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What is Word Salad?

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Unrelated combinations of words

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What is Perseveration?

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when someone gets stuck on the same idea

keeps repeating the same words

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What is Neologisms?

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New words

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What is Delusion?

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Fixed false belief for more than one month and no effect to normal living
Tx: Atypical antipsychotic and psychotherapy

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What is Illusion?

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Misinterprets stimulus

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What are Hallucinations?

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False sensory perception with absence of external stimuli, seen commonly in ETOH(alcohol) withdrawal and cocaine intoxication

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What is Nihilism?

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Feeling of “life is meaningless”

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What is Loss of Ego Boundaries?

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Where we lose sight and sense of our mind and body and its influences

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What are Ideas of Reference?

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Believes the media is monitoring you

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What is Thought Blocking?

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Stops mid-sentence

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What is Thought Broadcasting?

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Believes that everyone can read his thoughts

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What is Thought Insertion?

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Believes that others are putting thoughts into his head

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What is Thought Withdrawal?

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Believes that others are taking thoughts out of his head

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What is Concrete Thinking?

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Can’t interpret abstract proverbs, only sees the facts

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What is Synesthesia?

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Smells colors

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What is Cataplexy?

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Loss of muscle tone due to strong emotions

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What is a Paranoid Personality Disorder?

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Suspicious about everything, they use projection as defense mechanism

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What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?

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“Magical Thinking”, odd/bizarre behavior, people leave them alone because they are weird but they will interact if approached. Brief psychotic episode

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What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?

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Lie, cheat, steal, destroy property, impulsive without remorse, illegal activity, aggressive towards others. Must be over 18 y/o

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What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?

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Recluse, they don’t want to interact with others, emotional coldness

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What is Conduct Disorder Personality Disorder?

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Younger than 15 years old who have Antisocial personality disorder

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What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?

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Theatrical, sexually provocative, use repression

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What is Borderline Personality Disorder?

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“Perpetual Teenager”, splitting (love/hate), projection, acting out, self-mutiliation, unstable relationships, impulsive

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What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

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Pompous, no empathy, thinks they deserve everything

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What is Dependent Personality Disorder?

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Clingy, submissive, low self-confidence, uses regression

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What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?

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Perfectionist, doesn’t show feelings, detail oriented, uses isolation

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What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?

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Socially withdrawn, afraid of rejection but wants to fit in

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What is Kleptomania?

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Steals for the fun of it

Tx: Psychotherapy

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What is Pyromania?

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Sets fires for the fun of it

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What is Intermittent Explosive Disorder?

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Loses self-control, disproportional to circumstances?

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What is Pathological Gambling?

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Can’t stop gambling, affects others

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What is Trichotillomania?

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They pull out their own hair and eat it

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What is Lewy Body Dementia?

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Stiff with visual hallucinations

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What is Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus?

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Incontinence, ataxia “magnetic gait” dementia

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What is Korsakoff Psychosis?

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Alcoholic Thiamine deficiency. Presents with confusion, Opthalmoplegia, ataxia, memory loss, confabulation and personality change
Tx: Vit B1

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What is Vascular “multi-infarct” dementia?

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Sudden onset, uneven progression of deficits, “stair step” decline

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What is Huntington’s?

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Occurs in the caudate/putamen, Trinucleotide repeat disorder (Chromosome 4, CAG), choreiform movements, changes in personality, anticipation

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What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob?

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Prion induced disease, death within 1 year, post cornea transplant

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What is Pick’s Disease?

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Frontal lobe atrophy, disinhibition

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What is Alzheimer’s disease?

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Decreased Ach in nucleus basalis of Meynert,
bad Apo-E4,
Amyloid Plaques,
Neurofibrillary Tangles of Tau proteins

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What is Parkinson’s disease?

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Located in the Substantia Nigra (lack of dopamine)
bradykinesia (slowness of movement)
pill rolling tremor,
shuffling gait,
Lewy Bodies (abnormal protein deposits in the brain)

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What is Somatization?

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Psychological trigger gets them sick, but no medical finding (Pain in 4 parts, 2 GI problems)
(Recurrent and multiple medical symptoms with no discernible organic cause)
Tx: Psychotherapy

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What is Hypochondriasis?

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They worry about having a serious illness (specific disease) they seek medical attention. For constant reassurance
Tx: Psychotherapy

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What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?

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Imagined physical defect, causing impaired function in a social or occupational activity
Tx: SSRI

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What is Pain Disorder?

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Prolonged pain not explained by physical causes

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What is Conversion?

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Neurological manifestations of internal conflict, indifferent to disability, blindness/mutism triggered by a stressor. Patient is unconcerned about his impairment
Tx: Psychotherapy

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What is Malingering?

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Fake illness for monetary gain or getting out of jail, avoids medical treatment
Tx: Supportive Psychotherapy

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What is Factitious?

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Fake illness to get attention, seeks medical treatment, have a lot of medical knowledge.
Tx: Supportive psychotherapy

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What is Ficticious Disorder by Proxy?

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Mom makes the child or another person ill for emotional support, noted to move frequently

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What is Amnesia?

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Can’t recall important facts

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What is Dissociative Fugue?

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No past memory at all, even if they see someone from the past - they have no idea
Travel to a new place, usually due to trauma

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What is Multiple Personality Disorder?

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They have 5-10 alters, usually associated with incest

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What is Depersonalization Disorder?

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“Out of Body” experiences, Deja Vu

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What is Sublimation?

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Where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are unconsciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior

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What is Imitation?

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Replicating another’s behavior

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What is Identification?

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To be like or to become like another (aspect, property or attribute of another)

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What is Displacement?

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Take anger out on an object or someone else. Not related with situation

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What is Idealization?

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They see only the good in someone despite evidence to the contrary

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What is Transference?

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Patient views doctor as parent

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What is Countertransference?

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Doctor views patient as child

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What is Acting out?

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expression of impulse, “Temper Tantrums”

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What is Regression?

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Immature behavior, go back in development

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What is Reaction Formation?

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Unconsciously act opposite to how you feel, “Tears on a clown”

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What is Rationalization?

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Make excuses for behavior in advance, (because of…)

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What is Intellectualization?

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Act like a “know it all” to avoid feeling situational emotions, gets all information available to be over-informed

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What is Isolation of Affect?

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Isolate feelings to keep on functioning

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What is Suppression?

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Consciously block memory

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What is Repression?

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Subconsciously block memory

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What is Undoing?

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Doing exact opposite of what you used to do to fix a wrong

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What is Compensation?

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Doing something different of what you used to do

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What is Sadism?

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Gives physical and psychological pain

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What is Masochism?

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Receives pain (Humiliation)

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What is Exhibitionism?

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Exposure to others

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What is Voyeurism?

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Watching other people without their permission

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What is Telephone Scatologia?

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What is Frotteurism?

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Rubs penis against fully clothed women

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What is a Transvestite?

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Dress up as opposite sex, no identity crisis

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What is a Transsexual?

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Gender Identity crisis

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What is a fetish?

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High attraction for inanimate objects

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What is a Pedophile?

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Attracted to children sexually, watching child pornography

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What is a Necrophile?

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Someone who has sex with corpses

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What is a Beastophile?

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Someone who has sex with animals, women prefer dogs, they can smell their estrogen

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What is Justification?

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Making excuses for behavior afterwards

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Can you die during ETOH withdrawal?

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Can you die during Opiod Withdrawal?

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No, just very painful

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What is Isocarboxazid?

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Atypical depression: Hypersomnia, anxiety, sensitivity to rejection, hypochondriasis

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