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It involves cognition of the threatening object, subjective cognition of being in danger, physiological components like increased heart rate, and behavioral components like running or hitting.
FEAR
It involves subjective perception of threat, physiological changes and some kind of behavioral reaction. But unlike fear, it has no immediate threat.
ANXIETY DISORDER
It is a process of exposing the person to the phobic object in a graded way.
SYSTEMATIC DESENSITIZATION
It is a Psychological Dysfunction associated with distress or impairment in functioning that is not typical or culturally expected
ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
It is an episode of intense fear or apprehension with a sudden onset. Such symptoms develop abruptly and usually reach its peak within 10-15 mins.
PANIC ATTACK
It is an intense irrational fear of some object, living being or situation
PHOBIA
It is used in treating specific phobic disorders has not been the best option of choice, since the person already knows the unreasonableness of her fear. Simply making her see irrationality is of little help.
COGNITIVE THERAPY
It is widely used to classify psychological problems and disorders. It also guides the mental health professional to distinguish the clinical diagnosis and other psychological patterns pertaining to the type of condition
DIAGNOSTIC STATISTICAL MANUAL
It refers to an extreme form of this kind of discomfort. Often extreme feelings of shyness and self-consciousness build into a powerful fear, so that it becomes difficult to participate in everyday social situations.
SOCIAL PHOBIA
People with social phobia, can usually interact easily with close and familiar persons. But meeting with new people, talking in a group, or speaking in public can trigger the phobic reaction.
TRUE
Process to repressed conflicts and deal with them at a mature level than by displacing them onto objects and situations.
PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH
The ancient human civilization believed that abnormal behaviors are caused by some supernatural magic, evil spirits, demons, moons and the stars
SUPERNATURAL TRADITION
The attention of the person facing the phobic is directed completely toward it, the affect is intense fear and the behavioral reaction is escape.
TRUE
The Hippocratic perspective dominated medical thought in Western countries until the middle of the 19th century. People trained in the Hippocratic tradition viewed “disease” as a unitary concept.
BIOLOGICAL TRADITION
These techniques include gradually relaxing the muscles of your body, progressively from one extremity to another, and also controlling breathing so that the internal cues of fear are regulated and under control.
PSYCHOTHERAPY
It refers to intrusive thoughts, images and impulses often of a negative or unacceptable kind, despite one’s desire to get rid of it.
OBSESSION
It is known as a free-floating anxiety in psychodynamic terms, because the anxiety does not seem to be bound to one or few specific issues.
GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER
It is a psychiatric condition developed as an aftermath of severe trauma often involving violence and demolition.
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
It means being compelled from within to perform certain ritualistic acts, because otherwise you are afraid of some danger befalling you
COMPULSION
It refers to a group of disorders where the person reports physical complaints characteristic of bodily dysfunction
SOMATOFORM DISORDER
It is characterized by fear of physical disease and is based on misinterpretation of some transitory bodily symptom
HYPOCHONDRIASIS
This pertains to the multiple physical symptoms at different locations of the body.
SOMATISATION DISORDER
It is defined as unnecessary preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated defect in appearance.
BODY DYSMORHIC DISORDER
It refers to the person suffers from a real disability – often loss of a sensory or voluntary motor function such as partial paralysis, blindness, deafness and pseudoseizures.
CONVERSION DISORDER
It is a disturbance in one or more episodes of life or inability to recall significant events
DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA
It means feeling as if one is not oneself. The person seems detached from one’s body and mind.
DEPERSONALISATION
It is a sudden unexpected travelling away from home or work. This is often accompanied with amnesia.
DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE
It is a dissociated state of mind where one feels what is happening around is not real.
DREALISATION
Refers to deliberately imitating the symptoms of a physical or psychological disease with the purpose of some practical advantage.
MALINGERING
A person who is __________ may feel very low, but still may continue with his daily activities like work related as well as household duties.
MILDLY DEPRESSED
Mild or low-level depressive symptoms that persist for two or more than two years are classified as ___________
DYSTHYMIA
Dysthymia is a chronic long- lasting form of depression sharing many characteristic symptoms of______
MAJOR DESPRESSIVE DISORDER
Depression without periods of mania is sometimes referred to as ______ because the mood remains at one emotional state or “pole”.
UNIPOLAR DISORDER
characterized by mood reactivity paradoxical anhedonia and positivity, significant weight gain or increased appetite “comfort eating”, excessive sleep or hypersomnia, a sensation of heaviness in limbs known as leaden paralysis, and significant social impairment.
ATYPICAL DISORDER
a rare and severe form of major depression involving disturbances of motor behavior and other symptoms. Here the person is mute and almost stuporous, and either remains immobile or exhibits purposeless or even bizarre movements.
CATATONIC DISORDER
is defined as one or more than one week of a persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood.
MANIC EPISODE
is defined by a pattern of depressive episodes shifting back and forth with hypomanic episodes, but no full-blown manic or mixed episodes.
MIXED EPISODE
less extreme variant of mania involving a distinct episode that lasts four or more than four days and is distinctly different from the patient’s usual non-depressed mood.
HYPOMANIA
