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| 13592761464 | Narcissistic personality disorder | a personality disorder characterized by exaggerated ideas of self-importance and achievements; preoccupation with fantasies of success; arrogance |  | 0 |
| 13592761465 | Dissociative Disorders | disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings |  | 1 |
| 13592761469 | DSM-5 | the most receny authoritative guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders. It contains descriptions, symptoms, and other criteria for diagnosing mental disorders. | 2 | |
| 13592761474 | David Rosenhan | A social psychologist that did a study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder, the label, even when behavior indicates otherwise, is hard to overcome in a mental health setting | 3 | |
| 13592761475 | Rosenhan Study | study in which healthy individuals were admitted into mental hospitals after saying they were hearing voices. Once in, they acted normally and still were not labeled as well patients. | 4 | |
| 13592761476 | phobia | an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations | 5 | |
| 13592761477 | generalized anxiety disorder | an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months | 6 | |
| 13592761478 | panic disorder | an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations | 7 | |
| 13592761479 | obsessive-compulsive disorder | An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsession) and/ or actions (compulsions). | 8 | |
| 13592761480 | posttraumatic stress disorder | an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images | 9 | |
| 13592761481 | agoraphobia | a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place) | 10 | |
| 13592761482 | compulsions | repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed to reduce or prevent stress | 11 | |
| 13592761483 | obsessions | repeated, intrusive, and uncontrollable irrational thoughts or mental images that cause extreme anxiety and distress |  | 12 |
| 13592761484 | Somatoform Disorders | class of psychological disorders involving physical ailments or complaints that cannot be explained by organic causes | 13 | |
| 13592761485 | hypochondriasis (illness anxiety disorder) | A somatoform disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation with health concerns and incessant worry about developing physical illnesses. | 14 | |
| 13592761486 | conversion disorders | Somatoform disorders in which a specific impairment (blindness, paralysis) has no physical cause but instead seems related to psychological problems | 15 | |
| 13592761487 | dissociative amnesia | this is when a person cannot remember things about themselves and no physiological basis for the disruption in memory can be identified | 16 | |
| 13592761489 | dissociative identity disorder | a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.(DID) |  | 17 |
| 13592761492 | major depressive disorder | disorder causing periodic disturbances in mood that affect concentration, sleep, activity, appetite, and social behavior; characterized by feelings of worthlessness, fatigue, and loss of interest | 18 | |
| 13592761493 | dysthymic disorder | a mood disorder involving a pattern of comparatively mild depression | 19 | |
| 13592761496 | mania | An intense or extreme enthusiasm or excitement. | 20 | |
| 13592761497 | Personality Disorders | psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning |  | 21 |
| 13592761498 | Antisocial personality | personality who lacks a conscience, is emotionally shallow, impulsive, and selfish, and tends to manipulate others | 22 | |
| 13592761499 | Histrionic personality disorder | a personality disorder characterized by excessive emotionality and preoccupation with being the center of attention; emotional shallowness; overly dramatic behavior | 23 | |
| 13592761500 | Dependent personality disorder | personality disorder in which the person is unable to make choices and decisions independently and cannot tolerate being alone | 24 | |
| 13592761501 | Paranoid personality disorder | A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of the motives of others without sufficient basis | 25 | |
| 13592761502 | Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder | personality disorder defined by a pervasive pattern of orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control. workaholics, intolerant of emotional behavior of other people. | 26 | |
| 13592761503 | Schizophrenia | group of disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions | 27 | |
| 13592761504 | Positive Symptom | A symptom of schizophrenia that adds something on, including thought disorder, delusions, and hallucinations | 28 | |
| 13592761505 | Delusions | false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders | 29 | |
| 13592761506 | delusions of grandeur | A false belief that one is a famous person or a powerful or important person who has some great knowledge, ability, or authority. . | 30 | |
| 13592761508 | Hallucinations | false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus | 31 | |
| 13592761510 | Negative Symptom | symptom that reflects insufficient functioning, functions that have been lost (ex: social withdrawal, slowness of thought/speech) | 32 | |
| 13592761511 | Flat affect | Abnormality of mood and affect., lack of emotional response; no expression of feeling; voice monotonous and face immobile | 33 | |
| 13592761512 | Catatonia | a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods | 34 | |
| 13592761513 | waxy flexibility | feature of catatonic schizophrenia in which people rigidly maintain the body position or posture in which they are placed by others | 35 | |
| 13592761525 | 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. | 36 | |
| 13592761526 | Bulimia Nervosa | an eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise |  | 37 |
| 13592761529 | Binging | a period or bout, usually brief, of excessive indulgence, as in eating, drinking alcoholic beverages;bender, blast, jag, tear, bust, toot; orgy |  | 38 |
| 13592761531 | autism | a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind |  | 39 |
| 13636964062 | somatic symptom disorder | Psychological disorder in which people have physical symptoms without medical explanation | 40 | |
| 13636970028 | borderline personality disorder | a personality disorder characterized by lack of stability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotion; impulsivity; angry outbursts; intense fear of abandonment | 41 | |
| 13636975680 | Sick Role | Enjoy the role of being sick (can put off life's problems, convenient excuse for failure, get more attention) | 42 | |
| 13636977612 | M'naghten Law | insanity is present when your illness makes it to where you don't know right from wrong | 43 | |
| 13636985419 | avoidant personality disorder | Extremely sensitive to possible rejection, humiliation or shame. Socially withdrawn even though they want acceptance from others. | 44 | |
| 13636990013 | Epidemiology | The study of a disorder in a population | 45 | |
| 13636992023 | Prevalence | percentage of people within a population who have a specific mental disorder | 46 | |
| 13636993535 | Diagnosis | Distinguishing one illness from another | 47 | |
| 13636994565 | Etiology | Causes of a disorder | 48 | |
| 13636995640 | Prognosis | Predictable outcome, probable course of an illness, this is what it will look lik | 49 |
