A standard manual used t o diagnose all mental disorders
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What are the symptoms of Panic Disorder?
Sweatiness, jitteriness, short breath, shaking, feeling of near death.
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True or False, Bipolar disorder is a very common disorder and can be easily treated.
False (less than 1% of the world have this disorder.)
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What kinds of patients are mostly diagnosed with Psychopathy?
Criminals.
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What is Schizophrenia?
It is a psychotic disorder marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized and incoherent speech, inappropriate behavior, and cognitive.
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What is the main problem with the DSM?
It is that some people can incorrectly use it and diagnose problems in the wrong way.
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To make a diagnosis, how long should the reoccurring symptoms of a disorder go on for?
Six months.
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True or False, Going on mass spending sprees, making impulsive decisions and having risky sexual adventures are an example of someone who is highly manic and have bipolar disorder.
True.
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How does Narcissistic Personality Disorder make you feel?
Self-importance, self-absorption, brilliant, and strong.
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Where does Schizophrenia originate?
Originating from genetic problems that produce abnormalities in the brain.
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What is mental disorder?
Is an emotion state that causes harm to the person with the disorder and can impair a person’s ability to function in everyday life or cause harm to others.
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What is the most disabling fear disorder, and what is the fundamental fear in this disorder?
Agoraphobia, can't be in closed places, person feels no way out they feel trapped.
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People diagnosed with depression are said to have high levels of what?
Serotonin.
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Personality disorders can be described as “an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from expectations and culture.” True or False.
True.
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What is Psychosis?
An extreme mental disturbance involving distorted perceptions and irrational behavior; it may have psychological or organic causes.
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What are two types of test that are used to help diagnose disorders?
Projective test and Objective tests.
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Many cases of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) seem to be the result of impaired ______ and _______ functioning that existed before the trauma took place, triggered by the eventual traumatic experience.
Neurological, cognitive.
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True or False, Depression and/or Bipolar Disorder is genetic.
False.
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What is a Personality disorder?
Involves unchanging mal-adaptive traits that cause great distress or an inability to get along with others.
What are the three dilemmas of defining a psychological disorder?
Violation of cultural standards, emotional stress, behavior that is self destructive or harmful to others.
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What disorder is characterized by recurrent, persistent, unwished-for thoughts or images or by repetitive, ritualized behaviors that the person feels must be carried out to avoid disaster and guilt.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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An abnormally high state of exhilaration is?
Mania.
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What can Paranoid Personality Disorder cause?
It causes unreasonable, excessive suspiciousness and mistrust, also the irrational feelings of being persecuted by others.
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Explain Hallucinations.
False sensory experiences that feels intensely real.