Psychiatry

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Mutism

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Non reactive state with inability to speak

Question 1

Dissociation

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Uncomfortable feelings are separated from their real object

Dissociation disorder unconscious conflict. Loss of memory

Question 2

Apathy

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Absence of emotions; lack of interest or emotional involvement

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Conversion

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Anxiety becomes a bodily symptom, such as blindness, deafness of paralysis, that doesn’t have a physical basis. No organic basis

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Hallucination

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False sensory perception (hearing voices or seeing things)

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Obsession

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An involuntary, persistent idea or emotion

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Dementia

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Loss of intellectual abilities with impairment of memory, judgement, and reasoning as well as changes in personality

Question 7

Bipolar disorder

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Mood disorder with alternating periods of mania and depression

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Paranoia

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Overly suspicious system of thinking with fixed delusions of being harassed, persecuted, or unfairly treated

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of being on open, crowded, public places or alone. Fear or leaving home or safe place

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Dysphoria

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Sadness, hopelessness, depressive mood, or feeling low

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Compulsion

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Uncontrollable desire to perform an act repeatedly

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Amnesia

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Loss of memory

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Mania

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Extreme excitement, hyperactive elation, and agitation

State of excessive hyperactivity

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Delusion

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Fixed, false belief that can’t be changed by logical reasoning or evidence

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Autism

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Lack of responsiveness to others

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Anxiety

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Feeling of apprehension, uneasiness, and dread.

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Delirium

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Confused thinking, disorientation, changes in alertness, difficulty paying attention and fearfulness

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Eating disorder

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Severe disturbances in eating behavior

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Mood disorder

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Illness Prolonged emotion dominates a persons life (such as bipolar and depressive disorders) like Mania and depression

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Personality disorder

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Lifelong personality patters marked by inflexibility and impairment of social functioning

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Sexual disorder

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Paraphilia’s and sexual dysfunctions

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Somatoform disorders

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Presence of physical symptoms that can’t be explained by an actual physical disorder

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Substance related disorder

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Regular overuse of psychoactive substances that affect the central nervous system (like cocaine or other drugs)

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Phobias

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Irrational fear of an object or situation

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Repression

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Defense mechanism by which unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and impulses are automatically pushed into the conscious, out of awareness

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Hypomania

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Less intense mood of mania (less severe)

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Bulimia

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Eating disorder with binge eating followed by purging

Fear of obesity in which they have to vomit after eating

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Anorexia

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Eating disorder with excessive dieting and refusal to maintain a normal body weight

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Hypochondriasis

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Preoccupation with body aches, pains, discomfort in the absence of real illness