Definitions
Schizophrenia
Mood disorders
Personality disorders
Anxiety-based disorders
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Define anxiety
a vague feeling that one is in danger
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Define schizophrenia
an anxiety based disorder that involves confused and disoriented thoughts and perceptions
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What is a mood disorder?
intense moods that last for long periods of time
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Define personality disorders
different from mood disorders, the person doesn't experience anxiety
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Describe a panic attack
an event where a victim experiences sudden and unexplainable fear leading to the person feeling a sense of inevitable doom or that they are going to die.
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Define social phobia
anxiety focoused on social settings
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What are the symptoms of schizophrenia?
delusion, hallucinations, incoherence, talking too fast, and not making any sense
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define post-partum depression
depression following after the birth of a child
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What are people with personality disorders referred to as?
sociopath & psychopath
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What is a phobia?
When sever anxiety is focused on a certain object, activity, or situation that doesn't have real danger
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Define agoraphobia
extreme fear of crowds
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What are the three kinds of Schizophrenia?
Persecution, catatonic, and disorganised
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Bipolar disorder: what is the difference between manic type reaction and depressive?
manic-type reaction: a person experiences elation, extreme confusion, and racing thoughts. depressive-type reaction: a person is overcome by feelings of failure, sinfulness, worthlessness, and dispair.
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define anti-social personality
irresponsible, immature, emotionally shallow. They treat people as object for their own gain.
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What is an obsession and compulsion?
obsession: an uncontrollable pattern of thoughts compulsion: when someone repeats irrational actions.
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Define OCD
someone who repeats irrational actions & thinks the same thoughts over and over
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What is the percentage that a kid born from schizophrenics will have it?
17%
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Schizophrenia is a problem of ________
cognition
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What is the difference between a drug dependence and addiction?
Dependence: growing too much to the high of the drug they feel compelled to use it. When they stop they become restlessness, irritable and uneasy. Addiction: When you become so used to the drug that being high is a normal state. If they stop, the person experiences extreme physical discomfort
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What is claustrophobia?
fear of heights.
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Define Post traumatic stress disorder
a condition where a person has experienced a traumatic event and suffer severe and long lasting effects
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define delusions and hallucinations
delusions: false beliefs maintained in the face of contrary evidence hallucination: sensations in the absence of appropriate stimulation
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What's the difference between single-episode depression and recurrent depression?
single episode depression is one-time depressions recurrent depressions is an re-occuring pattern shared with single-episode depressions
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What percent of car accidents are linked with alcohol?
over 50%
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What is a symptom of Post-traumatic stress disorder?
involuntary flashbacks or recurring nightmares where the person re-experiences the event.
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