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anorexia nervosa: an eating disorder in which a normal-weight person (usually an adolescent female) diets and becomes significantly (15 percent or more) underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve.
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antisocial personality disorder: a personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members; may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist
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bipolar disorder: a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. (Formerly called manic-depressive disorder.)
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bulimia: This is a disorder, related to Anexoria Nervosa, which is characterized by binge eating & purging. Purging is self induced vomiting, abusing laxatives or diuretics or both. Typical client is white female between 13 & 18 years. Middle to upper middle class family.
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Catatonic schizophrenia: immobility (or excessive, purposeless movement), extreme negativism, and/or parrotlike repeating of another's speech or movements, characterized by complete stillness or stupor or great excitement and agitation; patients may assume an unusual posture and remain in it for long periods of time.
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conversion disorder: a rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found
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Depression: the condition of feeling apathetic, hopeless, and withdrawn from others. A major depression is an emotionally crippling depressed state linked to physical causes; it may be, at the extreme, a suicidal state.
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Disorganized schizophrenia: disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion, characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions
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dissociative identity disorder: a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
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DSM IV: the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a widley used system for classifying psychological disorders.
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hypochondriasis: A somatoform disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation with health concerns and incessant worry about developing physical illnesses.
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most common fears: speaking in public, speaking with strangers, making new friends, dealing with bosses, eating and writing in public
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obsessive-compulsive disorder: An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsession) and/ or actions (compulsions).
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Paranoid schizophrenia: preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations, often with themes of persecution or grandiosity, characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner
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personality disorders: psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.
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Residual schizophrenia: Withdrawal, after hallucinations and delusions have disappeared., a subtype of schizophrenic disorder reserved for people who have had at least one previous schizophrenic episode but are now showing an absence of prominent psychotic features; there is continuing evidence of two or more symptoms, such as marked social isolation, peculiar behaviors, blunted affect, odd beliefs or unusual perceptual experiences.
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schizophrenia: a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
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somatoform disorder: psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause
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symptoms of schizophrenia: 1. bizarre delusions
2. hallucinations
3. disorganized, incoherent speech
4. grossly disorganized and inappropriate behavior
5. impaired cognotive abilities
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Three D's: Deviant, Distressing, Dysfunctional
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types of schizophrenia: Catatonic
Disorganized
Paranoid
Residual
Undifferentiated
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Undifferentiated schizophrenia: mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria for any one type of schizophrenia
