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Psychiatry Flashcards

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How is major depression diagnosed?

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Need 5 “SIGE CAPS” for >2 weeks

Sleep disturbances (wake in early AM)
Interest/libido loss
Guilt
Energy loss
Concentration loss 
Appetite changes (loss)
Psychomotor agitation 
Suicide or hopelessness
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Autism

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Repetitive movements
Lack of verbal skills and bonding
Symptoms since birth

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Asperger’s

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Good communication
Impaired relationships
No mental retardation

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Rett’s

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Only in girls
Decreases head growth
Lose motor skills
Hand wringing 
Normal until 5 years
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Childhood Disintegrative Disorder

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Develop normally for first 2 years then behave autistic

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Selective mutism

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Kid talks sometimes

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Separation anxiety disorder

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Kid screams when mom leaves

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Conduct disorder

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Aggressive 
Disregard for rules 
No sense of guilt
Harm animals 
Illegal activity

“Bite”

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Oppositional defiant disorder

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Defiant
Non compliant
Directed at authority

“Bark”

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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Over activity

Difficulty in school

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Dysthymia

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Low level sadness for > 2 years

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Cyclothymia

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Dysthymia with hypomania

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Double depression

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Depression followed by dysthymia

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Bipolar I

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Depression and mania (psychosis)

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Bipolar II

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Depression and hypomania (no psychosis)

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Loose associations

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Ideas switch subjects, incoherent

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Tangentiality

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Wanders off the point

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Circumstanciality

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Digresses but finally gets back to the point

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Clanging

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Words that sound alike

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Word salad

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Unrelated combinations of words

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Perseveration

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Keeps repeating the same words

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Neologisms

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New words

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Delusion

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False belief

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Illusion

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Misinterprets stimulus

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Hallucination

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False sensory perception

Alcohol withdrawal/cocaine intoxication —> formication

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Nihilism

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Thinks the world has stopped

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Loss of ego boundaries

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Not knowing where I end and you begin

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Ideas of reference

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Believes media is monitoring you

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Thought blocking

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Stops mid sentence

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Thought broadcasting

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Believes everyone can read his thoughts

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Thought insertion

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Believes others are putting thoughts into his head

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Thought withdrawal

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Believes others are taking thoughts out of his head

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Concrete thinking

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Can’t interpret abstract proverbs, just sees the facts

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Synesthesia

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Smell colors

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Cataplexy

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Loss of mm tone due to strong emotions

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Paranoid personality disorder

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Suspicious about everything

Use projection

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Schizotypal personality disorder

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“Magical thinking”
Bizarre behavior

Just that type to see dressed as a wizard

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Schizoid personality disorder

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“Recluse” don’t want to fit in

Avoids

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Lie, steal, cheat, destroy property
Impulsive without remorse
Illegal activity

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Conduct disorder personality disorder

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<15yo with antisocial disorder

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Histrionic personality disorder

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Theatrical
Sexually provocative
Use repression

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Borderline personality disorder

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Perpetual teenager
Splitting (love/hate)
Projection 
Acting out 
Self mutilation
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Narcissistic personality disorder

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Pompous

No empathy

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Dependent personality disorder

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Clingy
Submissive
Low self confidence
Regression

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Obsessive compulsive personality disorder

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Perfectionist
Doesn’t show feelings
Detail orientated
Uses isolation

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Avoidant personality disorder

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Socially withdrawn

Afraid of rejection but wants to fit in

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Kleptomania

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Steals for the fun of it

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Pyromania

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Starts fires

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Intermittent explosive disorder

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Loses self control without adequate reason

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Pathological gambling

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Can’t stop

Affects others

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Trichotillomania

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Pull out their hair

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Lewy body dementia

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Stiff

Visual hallucinations

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Normal pressure hydrocephalus

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TrIAD:
Incontinence
Ataxia (magnetic gait)
Dementia

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Korsakoff psychosis

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Alcoholic thiamine deficiency

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Vascular “multi infarct” dementia

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Sudden onset
Uneven progression of deficits
Stair step decline

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Huntington’s

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Caudate putamen
Triplet repeat disorder
Choreiform movements

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Creutzfeldt-Jacob

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Prion disease
Die within one year
Post cornea transplant

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Pick’s disease

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Frontal lobe atrophy

Disinhibition

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Alzheimer’s

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Decreased Ach in nucleus basalis of Meynert
Bad ApoE
Amyloid plaques
Tangles of tau

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Parkinson’s

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Substantia nigra 
Bradykinesia
Pill rolling tremor 
Shuffling gait
Lewy bodies
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Somatization

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Think they have a different illness all the time

At least 4 organ systems

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Hypochondriasis

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Think they have the same illness all the time

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Body dysmorphic disorder

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Imagined physical defect

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Pain disorder

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Prolonged pain not explained by physical causes

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Conversion

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Neuro manifestations of internal conflict

Indifferent to disability

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Malingering

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Fake illness for monetary gains

Avoids medical treatment

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Factitious

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Fake illness to get attention

Seeks medical treatment

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Munchausen

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Need to be the caregiver

Mom fakes child’s illness to get attention

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Munchausen by proxy

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Mom makes child ill for gain

Move a lot

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Amnesia

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Can’t recall important facts

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Dissociative fugue

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No past
Travel to new place
Usually due to trauma

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Multiple personality disorder

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5-10 alters

Usually associated with incest

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Depersonalization disorder

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Out of body experience

Deja vu

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Sublimation

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Substitute acceptable for unacceptable

75
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Imitation

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Dress like someone else

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Identification

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Act like someone else

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Displacement

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Take anger out on someone else

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Idealization

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Wait for “ideal spouse” while they are beating up their own spouse

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Transference

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Patient views doctor as parent

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Counter transference

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Doctor views patient as child

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Acting out

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Expression of impulse

Tantrums

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Regression

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Immature behavior

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Rationalization

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Make excuses for all situations

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Intellectualization

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Act like know it all to avoid feeling emotions

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Isolation of affect

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Isolate feelings to keep on functioning

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Suppression

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Consciously block memory

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Repression

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Subconsciously block memory

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Reaction formation

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Unconsciously act opposite how you feel

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Undoing

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

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Compensation

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Doing something different of what you used to do

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Sadism

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Gives pain

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Masochism

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Receives pain

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Exhibitionism

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Exposure to others

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Voyeurism

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Watching other people without their permission

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Telephone scatalogia

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Frotteurism

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Rub penis against fully clothed women

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Transvestite

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Dress up as opposite sex

No identity crisis

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Transsexual

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Gender identity crisis

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Fetish

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Pedophilia

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Necrophilia

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Beastophilia

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Can you die during alcohol withdrawal?

104
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Can you die during opioid withdrawal?

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No, just very painful

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