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Panic Disorders, Phobias, and OCD (among others) are considered this type of disorder
What is anxiety disorders?
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This disorder sees the sufferer be constantly plagued by specific thoughts and feel compelled to take certain actions, usually to prevent the thoughts from happening.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
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This is a symptom of schizophrenia that sees someone hold a completely false belief. Some common examples are -of grandeur or -of persecution.
What is delusions?
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Sometimes a person is full of energy and talks super fast then they are extremely depressed and down in the dumps.
What is bipolar disorder?
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The bible of abnormal psychology.
What is the DSM-5?
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These are psychological disorders in which the symptoms take a bodily form without apparent physical cause
What are somatic symptom disorders?
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This is a disorder that some people in this very class might have. WATCHOUT for the spider in the corner!
What is a phobia?
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This is a symptom of schizophrenia that sees someone experience incorrect sense input. They might see someone who isn't there, hear voices, smell things that aren't there, feel someone touching them, or even taste a poison that doesn't exist.
What is a hallucination?
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Someone loses their identity so we say they are in this type of state.
What is a fugue state?
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Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde seems to be a classic and literary example of this disorder, which is odd since it is set in Britain and the British think it is a wacky American fad.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
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People who swing between a depressed state and a manic state are considered to have a disorder. That disorder falls into this broader category.
What is a mood disorder?
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The fear of open spaces or place that it is hard to escape from. It often results from a social phobia where some feels that they are constantly being judged.
What is agoraphobia?
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A schizophrenia who is afflicted by an inability to move likely has this type of schizophrenia.
What is catatonic schizophrenia? (In the DSM-5, this separate categorization no longer exists, though the disorder does in general does.)
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Gangplank fever, the WWI disorder that saw soldier suddenly unable to move their legs is likely this type of disorder.
What is a conversion disorder?
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This is the disorder that most media reports claim that Amanda Bynes has.
What is schizophrenia?
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Someone who suffers from Antisocial Personality disorder has this type of disorder.
What is a personality disorder?
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75% of the people who have this a women and they experience difficulty concentrating, their attention switches from worry to worry, and they are in a constant state of autonomic nervous system arousal. Most importantly they cannot identity what it is they are worried about.
What is general anxiety disorder (GAD)?
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Delusions, Hallucinations, talking in disorganized and deluded way are all this kind of symptoms of schizophrenia.
What are positive symptoms?
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I have a head ache. Its clearly IS a tumor!
What is Illness anxiety disorder? (Hypochondrisis)(Hypochondria)
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This is very common disorder in 21st century America. It is marked by inattention, hyperactivity, or impulsive.
What is ADHD?
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Someone who is paranoid, disorganized, or catatonic likely has this type of disorder.
What is schizophrenia? (Note in the DSM-5 there are no longer separate categories.)
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This an an anxiety triggered event where one feels their heart race, their pulse increase, strong chest pains, or a sensation of choking.
What is a panic disorder?
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This is the harder of the two types of schizophrenia to cure. It usually see more negative symptoms and its onset is slower.
What is process or chronic schizophrenia?
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This disorder used to be called either being a sociopath or psychopath but still sees someone who displays little fear, an ease with lying, and a lower level of stress BEFORE they commit a crime.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
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This occurs when one experience a traumatic event but instead of dewlling on it and losing focus, someone develops a stronger commitment to relationship, increases their personal strength, and develops a richer spiritual life.
What is post-traumatic growth?