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What three characteristics must a psychological disorder have?
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It must be deviant, dysfuncitonal, and distressing.
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Neurosis
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Main symptoms are things of anxiety, but you are in touch with reality.
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Psychotic
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A disorder were you aren't in touch with reality.
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Bio-Psych-Social Model
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Describing a behavior using Biolgoy, Psychology, and a Social stand point.
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Anxiety Disorders: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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A constant worry that bad things are about to happen, alot of surges in the nervous system.
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Anxiety Disorders: Phobia Disorder
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Fear of a specific place or thing.
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Anxiety Disorders: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Overactivity in one side of the frontal lobe, creates unwanted thoughts (the obsession) with behaviors to ward off the anxiety (the compulsion. Individuals with this are either groomers, checkers, or washers.
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Mood Disorders: Major depression
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Affects women more than men, creates feelings of worthlessness, lost of interests with friends and activities, diminished pleasure, inability to concentrate, and thoughts of suicide.
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Mood Disorders: Bipolar Disorder
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Wild swings between mania and depression, it is very treatable and only 1% of the population has it, it is strongly genetic.
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Mood Disorders: Seasonal Affective Disorder
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When there is no sun, severe drops of seretonin occurs, thus depression.
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Somatoform Disorder
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Has a physical symptom but no medical cause
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Somatoform Disorders: Conversion Disorder
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Converting severe forms of anxeity into a physical symptom.
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Somatoform Disorders: Hypocondria
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Being sick and thinking you are going to die.
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Schizophrenia
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Has symptoms of disorganized thinking, "word salad", and innappropriate emotional resposes
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Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia
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Delusions, which are false beliefs, and hallucinations
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