Psychology

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Persistent disorder characterized by a relatively inflexible reaction to stress

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Personality disorder

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Psycho/ sociopath that acts out conflict without remorse or guilt and has difficulty following rules

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Antisocial

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Descriptive of thoughts or behavior that are automatic response to anxiety or stress. A common example is compulsive hand washing caused by obsession with cleanliness

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Compulsive

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Attention seeking, aggressive, seductive person who is unable to be deeply involved emotionally

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Hysterical/ Histrionic

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Attention seeking, regards no one else as important, strong admiration for self exhibition

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Narcisim

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Preoccupation with delusions. Sensitive, defensive, suspicion leading to aggression, unfounded beliefs that others want to harm him

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Paranoid

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Taking aggressive actions in an indirect manner, argumentative

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Passive aggressive

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Ungluing of “reason” and emotion. Introverted, withdrawn, emotionally cold and distant, avoid social interaction. Delusion and hallucinations

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Schizoid

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Unconscious strategies utilized to cope with reality

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Defense mechanism

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Refusal to perceive unpleasant realities. Painful subjects stems from external sources such as impulses or fantasies. Most commonly seen in alcoholics

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Denial

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Act of resigning a feeling or belief to another person, group, or to the outside world

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Projection

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Attributing one’s own unacceptable desires and impulse to someone else

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Rationalization

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Depressed, unacceptable behavior expressed in exaggerated form of an opposite behavior

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Reaction formation

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A response to stress in which an individual reverts to a less developmentally mature stage

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Regression

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Redirecting one’s feelings (aggression and affection) from one person to another

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Transference

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Channeling unacceptable impulses or energy into socially acceptable activity

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Sublimation

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Patients with anxiety disorders usually present with physical symptoms to physicians. Physical symptoms include: heart palpitations, increased heart rate, shortness of breath, sweating, tingling, diziness

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Anxiety disorder

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A state of intensive apprehension of worry often accompanied by physical symptoms such as shaking, intense feeling in gut, etc. Common in mental illness or after distressing experience

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Anxiety

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Repeated attacks of severe anxiety. Attacks last from 5-30 mins

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Panic disorder

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Reoccurring, intrusive thought or image that seems senseless or unpleasant

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Obsession

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Activity designed to reduce anxiety that a person feels compelled to repeat with no conscious desire to do so

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Compulstion

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Inflexible, uncontrollably entangled with details and highly repetitive activities

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Perfectionist

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Persistent thoughts are obsessive, while persistent actions are….

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compulsive

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OCD most often begins in….

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adolescence but can begin in childhood

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Irrational unrealistic fear of a situation, animal, person or activity

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Phobic

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Fear of public space

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of heights

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Acrophobia

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Fear of thunder and lighting

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ASTROphobia

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Fear of stars and celestial space

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ASTRAphobia

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Psychological conflicts take on physical form and no organic evidence exist to explain symptoms

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Somatoform disorder

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Pervasive belief that a body part is misshapen or malformed. Patient able to admit that he/she is exaggerating. May avoid mirrors or social contact

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Body dysmorphic disorder

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Loss or change of physical function caused by a psychosocial conflict. Conversion symptoms are not supported by medical evidence but NOT FAKED. Often appears rapidly after trauma. Involuntary response.

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Conversion hysteria AKA Conversion reaction

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MC disability with conversion hysteria

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Paralysis
Blindness
Mutism
Deafness
Seizures

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An exaggerated pre-occupation with bodily functions and fear that one is suffering from a serious disease. Patient believes that they have disease or one is soon going to occur. Disease is thought to be imminent, Patient presents with having diagnosed himself in a very detailed way hoping for a dreaded diagnosis

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Hypochondiasis

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Chronic,, cyclic, multiple somatic complaints not due to a physical illness. Symptoms cannot be explained by physical syndrome. Patient seeks treatment and changes life as a result of symptoms. Patient presents with symptoms in a VAGUE and exaggerated way. More concerned with discomfort than disease

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Somatization disorder

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Severe fluctuation of mood or personality

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Affective disorder

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Associated with DELIRIUM TREMENS and FOLATE DEFICIENCY

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Alcoholism

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Severe restriction of calories, fear of fat and body image distortion, amenorrhea; excessive exercise; unreasonable fear of gaining weight

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Anorexia Nervosa

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Behavior alternates between mania and melancholia; high and low. First occurs between childhood and age 50. Avg manic episodes last for 3 months depressive episodes last 6-9 months

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Bipolar Affective Disorder AKA MANIC depressive

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Preoccupation with food. Binge eating with subsequent purging, body image distortion

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Bulimia nervosa