any behavior or emotional state causes individuals great suffering or worrying.
Mental disorder
episodes of mixed emotions thru out the day effecting a person happy behavior.
Depression
continuous state of worrying and dreading of a difficult situation in concentration.
generalized disorder anxiety
ridgid, maladaptive patterns that cause personal distress or an inability to get along with others.
personality disorder
False beliefs that often accompany schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
delusions
involving disturbing in moods with sadness and loss of one feel to the world of numbness
major depression
a person feels trapped in repetitive and persistent thoughts with ritualized behaviors designed to reduce anxiety.
ocd
exaggerated, unrealistic fear of a specific situation.
phobia
mood disorders in episodes of depression and mania occur.
bipolar disorder
Sensory experiences that occur in the absence of actual stimulation.
Hallucinations
A relatively stable opinion containing beliefs and emotional feelings about a topic.
Attitude
Conditions in which consciousness or identity is split or altered.
Dissociative Disorders
An anxiety disorder in which a person who has experienced a traumatic or life-threatening event has symptoms such as psychic numbing, reliving the the trauma, and increased physiological arousal.
PTSD
A disorder characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance and self-absorption.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A characteristic of an individual, describing a habitual way of behaving, thinking, and feeling.
Trait
Directing emotions toward objects or people that aren’t the real target
Displacement
A controversial disorder marked by the appearance within on person of two or more distinct personalities, each with its own name and traits; commonly known as “Multiple Personality Disorder
Dissociative Identity Disorder
An anxiety disorder in which a person experiences recurring panic attacks, feelings of impending doom or death, accompanied by physiological symptoms such as rapid breathing and dizziness.
panic anxiety disorder.
A disorder characterized by habitually unreasonable and excessive suspiciousness and jealousy.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
The functional units of heredity; they are composed of DNA and specify the structure of proteins.
Genes
An extreme mental disturbance involving distorted perceptions and irrational behavior
Psychosis
A psychotic disorder marked by positive symptoms and negative symptoms
Schizophrenia
pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant distress and addiction to substance
Substance Abuse
A disorder characterized by antisocial behavior such as lying, stealing, manipulating others, and sometimes violence; and a lack of guilt, shame and empathy.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
psychopathy or sociopathy
A statistical estimate of the proportion of the total variance in some trait that is attributable to genetic differences among individuals within a group.
Heritability