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Mental Disorders – A mental or emotional condition that makes it difficult
for a person to live in a normal way
Some examples of Mental Disorders covered in class:
Affective Disorders (Mood Disorder)
Disturbance in a person’s mood…such as a depressive mood or a bipolar (split personality) mood. A
disorder involving extreme moods.
-Clinical Depression - involves long lasting feelings of hopelessness, sadness or helplessness
-Bipolar disorder - a person's moods vary from extreme happiness to depression
-Seasonal Affective disorder - is a type of depression caused by reduced exposure to sunlight
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Personality Disorder
Severe disturbances in the behavioral tendencies of an individual, usually involving several areas of a
person’s personality
- Antisocial personality - patterns of behavior that are in conflict with society
- Avoidant personality - avoids all social contact
- Dependent personality - cannot function without the advice and help of others
- Narcissistic personality - is boastful, conceited ad inconsiderate of others
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Anxiety Disorder
Abnormal fear and dread…sweating, palpitations, muscle tension, fatigue, and irritability...a disorder
in which real or imagined fears prevent a person from enjoying life.
- Phobia – exaggerated fear of a object or situation...excessive fear of certain objects, situations or
people
-Panic disorder – exaggerated feeling of fear
-Obsessive Compulsive Disorder – Obsessive and Compulsive feelings over situations and
actions...urgent need to repeat a thought or action
-Post Traumatic Stress syndrome – Severe fear and feelings relating to a past negative
experience...a condition in which the after-effects of a past event keep a person from living in a
normal way
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Dissociate Disorder
Conditions that involve a disruption or breakdowns in memory, awareness, identity and/or perception
- Amnesia - is the inability to recall past experiences
- Dissociative identity disorder - rare mental disorder in which two or more personalities coexist
within the same person
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Somatoform Disorder
Mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms that mimic physical disease or injury for which
there is no identifiable physical cause
- Hypochondria - is constantly worried about illness.