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PSYC- Pshychological

Meyer 10th Chapter 15

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Psychological Disorders Deviant, distressful, dysfunctional patters of thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
Anxiety Disorders disorder characterized by distressing anxiety or presistant behavior.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder worring having anxious feelings about many subjects, continually tense, apprehensive in state of arousal.
Panic Disorder unpredictable, minute long episode where a person feels like he is dying.
Phobia irrational fear and or avoidance of a specific object.
Obsessive Compulsive disorder intense unwanted worries, repeated feeling of needing to carry out an action even-though it doesnt make sense. RECHECKING
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder haunting memories,nightmares or re-experiencing, phobic avoidance, insomnia or sleep problems
Post-Traumatic Growth Positive Changes result of traumatic event
Major Depressive Disorder a mood disorder having a clinical course involving one or more episodes of serious psychological depression lasting two or more weeks
Mania Hyperactivity, speed a person up.
Bipolar disorder Mood swings
Schizophrenia split mind from reality. Hallucinations, inappropriate emotions, disturbed perceptions,disorganized and dilutional thinking
Psychosis split from reality and rationality.
Divian To be diffrent
identical twins raised separate develop similar phobias
Anxiety and genes anxiety= seratonin anxiety= high level of glutamate
Seasonal affective disorder recurring seasonal pattern of depression usually during winter (sad days)
Understanding Schizophrenia Too many Dopamine, poor cordination in frontal lobe, thalamus fires
Anorexia compulsion to loose weight
Bulimia eating large quantities then purging by vomiting, laxatives, extreme exercise
Binge-Eating Compulsion to binge followed by guilt and depression
Dissociative Amnesia loss of memoru without a cause
Dissociative Fugue wandering awa from ones memory and identity with no memory of these
Dissociative Identity Disorder separate personalities
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