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Amnesia - A partial or total loss of memory.
Anxiety Disorders -
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or
something with an uncertain outcome.
Asperger Syndrome -
A rare and relatively mild autistic disorder characterized by awkwardness in
social interaction, pedantry in speech, and preoccupation with very narrow
interests.
A rare and relatively mild autistic disorder characterized by awkwardness in
social interaction, pedantry in speech, and preoccupation with very narrow
interests.
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
Autistic Disorder
Bipolar Disorder -
This manic-depressive disorder is characterized by recurrent episodes of mania
and major depression. Manic symptoms consist of feelings of inflated self-esteem
or grandiosity, a decreased need for sleep, unusual loquacity, an unconnected
flow of ideas, distractibility, or excessive involvement in pleasurable
activities that have a high potential for painful consequences, such as buying
sprees or sexual indiscretions.
This manic-depressive disorder is characterized by recurrent episodes of mania
and major depression. Manic symptoms consist of feelings of inflated self-esteem
or grandiosity, a decreased need for sleep, unusual loquacity, an unconnected
flow of ideas, distractibility, or excessive involvement in pleasurable
activities that have a high potential for painful consequences, such as buying
sprees or sexual indiscretions.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Bullying ( --> Social Behavior )
Depressive Disorder
Dependent Personality Disorder
- Persons with dependent personality disorder lack energy and initiative and
passively let others assume responsibility for major aspects of their lives.
Persons with dependent personality disorder lack energy and initiative and
passively let others assume responsibility for major aspects of their lives.
Dissociative Disorders
- In dissociative disorders there is a sudden, temporary alteration in the
person's consciousness, sense of identity, or motor behaviour. There may be an
apparent loss of memory of previous activities or important personal events,
with amnesia for the episode itself after recovery.
In dissociative disorders there is a sudden, temporary alteration in the
person's consciousness, sense of identity, or motor behaviour. There may be an
apparent loss of memory of previous activities or important personal events,
with amnesia for the episode itself after recovery.
Dysthymic Disorder -
It is considered to be present when the depressed mood is
disproportionately severe or prolonged in regard to the distressing experience,
when there is a preoccupation with the precipitating situation, when the
depression continues even after removal of the provocation, and when it impairs
the individual's ability to cope with the specific stress.
It is considered to be present when the depressed mood is
disproportionately severe or prolonged in regard to the distressing experience,
when there is a preoccupation with the precipitating situation, when the
depression continues even after removal of the provocation, and when it impairs
the individual's ability to cope with the specific stress.
Eating Disorders - Range
of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits.
Dyslexia ( --> Communicative Disorders) -
A specific inability or pronounced
difficulty in learning to read or spell, despite otherwise normal intellectual
functions.
A specific inability or pronounced
difficulty in learning to read or spell, despite otherwise normal intellectual
functions.
Emetophobia ( --> Anxiety Disorders ) -
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or
unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or
unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome
Frigidity ( --> Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological) -
In psychology, the inability of a
woman to attain orgasm during sexual intercourse.
In psychology, the inability of a
woman to attain orgasm during sexual intercourse.
Kleine-Levin Syndrome
( --> Narcolepsy) - A condition characterized by an extreme tendency to fall
asleep whenever in relaxing surroundings.
A condition characterized by an extreme tendency to fall
asleep whenever in relaxing surroundings.
Narcissism -
Excessive
or erotic interest in oneself and one's physical appearance.
Excessive
or erotic interest in oneself and one's physical appearance.
Narcolepsy - A condition characterized by an extreme tendency to fall asleep
whenever in relaxing surroundings.
A condition characterized by an extreme tendency to fall asleep
whenever in relaxing surroundings.
Phobic Disorders -
Phobias are neurotic states accompanied by intense dread of certain objects or
situations that would not normally have such an effect.
Phobias are neurotic states accompanied by intense dread of certain objects or
situations that would not normally have such an effect.
Pica Syndrome ( --> Eating Disorders)
- Any of a range of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or
disturbed eating habits (such as anorexia nervosa).
Any of a range of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or
disturbed eating habits (such as anorexia nervosa).
Pick's Disease ( --> Dementia) -
Dementia is also present in another
degenerative brain disease, Pick's disease.
Dementia is also present in another
degenerative brain disease, Pick's disease.
Restless Legs Syndrome
Schizophrenia -
A
long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation
between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception,
inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal
relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
A
long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation
between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception,
inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal
relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Depression associated with late autumn and winter and thought to be caused by
a lack of light.
Depression associated with late autumn and winter and thought to be caused by
a lack of light.
Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological
- The inability of a person to experience sexual arousal or to achieve sexual
satisfaction under appropriate circumstances, as a result of either physical
disorder or, more commonly, psychological problems.
The inability of a person to experience sexual arousal or to achieve sexual
satisfaction under appropriate circumstances, as a result of either physical
disorder or, more commonly, psychological problems.
Sleep Disorders
Somatoform Disorders
- The symptoms invariably occur in many different bodily systems, for instance
back pains, painful menstruation, dizziness, indigestion, difficulty with
vision, and partial paralysis.
The symptoms invariably occur in many different bodily systems, for instance
back pains, painful menstruation, dizziness, indigestion, difficulty with
vision, and partial paralysis.
Stress
Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Substance-Related Disorders
- This category refers to maladaptive behaviour associated with the regular
nonmedical use of substances that affect the central nervous system.
This category refers to maladaptive behaviour associated with the regular
nonmedical use of substances that affect the central nervous system.
Suicidal Behavior -
Act of voluntarily or intentionally taking one's own life.
Act of voluntarily or intentionally taking one's own life.
Trichotillomania
Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder -
In this condition an individual experiences
obsessions or compulsions or both. Obsessions are recurring words, thoughts,
ideas, or images that, rather than being experienced as voluntarily produced,
seem to invade a person's consciousness despite his attempts to ignore, control,
or suppress them.
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