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| the american psychiatric association diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders |
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| psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes |
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| a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods |
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| false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus |
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| false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders |
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| a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions |
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| therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions |
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| cognitive behavior therapy |
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| a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal |
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| an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and or actions |
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