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| 3421299714 | Psych disorder | A significant dysfunction in a person's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors | 0 | |
| 3421299715 | Dysfunction | Impaired or abnormal function and behavior | 1 | |
| 3421299716 | Distress | Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain | 2 | |
| 3421299717 | Deviance | Departing from usual or accepted standards | 3 | |
| 3421299718 | Medical model | The concept that diseases, in this case psych disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases cured, often through treatment in a hospital | 4 | |
| 3421299719 | DSM-IV-TR | The APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Ed, with an updated "text revision"; a widely used system for classifying psych disorders | 5 | |
| 3421299720 | Anxiety disorders | Psych disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety | 6 | |
| 3421299721 | GAD | An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal | 7 | |
| 3421299722 | 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 | 8 | |
| 3421299723 | Phobia | An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation | 9 | |
| 3421299724 | OCD | An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both | 10 | |
| 3421299725 | PTSD | An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for 4 weeks or more after a traumatic experience | 11 | |
| 3421299726 | Survivor resiliency | Ability to recover after severe stress | 12 | |
| 3421299727 | Mood disorders | Psych disorders characterized by emotional extremes | 13 | |
| 3421299728 | SAD | Depression associated with autumn and winter and thought to be caused by lack of light | 14 | |
| 3421299729 | Major depressive disorder | A mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, 2 or more weeks of significantly depressed moods or diminished interest or pleasure in most activities, along with at least 4 other symptoms | 15 | |
| 3421299730 | Bipolar disorder | A mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania | 16 | |
| 3421299731 | Mania | A hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgement is common | 17 | |
| 3421299732 | Schizophrenia | A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors | 18 | |
| 3421299733 | Psychosis | A psych disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions | 19 | |
| 3421299734 | Positive symptoms | The presence of inappropriate behaviors | 20 | |
| 3421299735 | Negative symptoms | The absence of appropriate behaviors | 21 | |
| 3421299736 | Delusions | False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders | 22 | |
| 3421299737 | Word salad | Jumbled ideas that make no sense to others | 23 | |
| 3421299738 | Selective attention | Giving undivided attention to one set of sensory stimuli while filtering out others | 24 | |
| 3421299739 | Hallucinations | Sensory experiences without sensory stimulation | 25 | |
| 3421299740 | Flat effect | Emotionless state of no apparent feeling | 26 | |
| 3421299741 | Catatonia | A condition in which a person remains motionless for hours | 27 | |
| 3421299742 | Chronic or process schizophrenia | Slow-developed schizophrenia | 28 | |
| 3421299743 | Acute or reactive schizophrenia | Rapidly-developed schizophrenia | 29 | |
| 3421299744 | Dissociative disorders | Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings | 30 | |
| 3421299745 | DID | A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits 2 or more distinct and alternating personalities | 31 | |
| 3421299746 | Anorexia nervosa | An eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15% or more) underweight | 32 | |
| 3421299747 | Bulimia nervosa | An eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating (usually of high-calorie foods) with purging (by vomiting or laxative use) or fasting | 33 | |
| 3421299748 | Binge-eating disorder | Significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging or fasting that marks bulimia nervosa | 34 | |
| 3421299749 | Personality disorders | Psych disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning | 35 | |
| 3421299750 | Avoidant pd | A personality disorder characterized by feeling of extreme social inhibition, inadequacy, and sensitivity to negative criticism and rejection | 36 | |
| 3421299751 | Schizoid pd | A personality disorder in which a person avoids social activities, preferring their own company | 37 | |
| 3421299752 | Histrionic pd | A personality disorder characterized by a long-standing pattern of attention seeking behavior and extreme emotionality | 38 | |
| 3421299753 | Narcissistic pd | A personality disorder in which a person has an inflated sense of self-importance | 39 | |
| 3421299754 | Antisocial pd | A personality disorder in which a 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 | 40 |
