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panic disorder

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sudden attacks of severe, overwhelming anxiety without an indentifiable cause

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phobia

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intense, unreasonable fear of a specific thing or situation or even the thought of it

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acr/o-

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extremity, highest point

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acrophobia

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fear of heights

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agoraphobia

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fear of crowds or public places

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agor/a-

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open areas or space

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arachnophobia

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fear of spiders

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arachn/o-

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spider, spider web

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claustrophobia

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fear of closed-in spaces

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claustr/o-

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enclosed space

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mirophobia

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fear of germs

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ophidiophobia

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fear of snakes

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ophidi/o-

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snake

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soci/o-

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human beings; community

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thanatophobia

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fear of death

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thanat/o-

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death

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xenophobia

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fear of strangers

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xen/o-

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foreign

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post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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continuing, disabling reaction to an excessively traumatic situation or event

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Bipolar Disorder

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chronic mood swings between mania and depression, extreme happiness and then swings of severe depression

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Psychosis

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loss of touch with reality

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Delusional disorder

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continued false beliefs concerning events of everyday life that are fixed and unchanged despite the efforts of others to persuade or evidence

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Schizophrenia

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chronic loss of touch with reality in most or all aspects of life with bizarre behviorr

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Oppositional defiant disorder

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persistent aggressive behavior defiance of and refusal to obey rules, disrespect for authority figures, with anger, stubbornness and touchiness

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Tourette’s syndrome

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frequent, spontaneous, invultary movement tics (throat clearing, eye blinking) and vocal tics (grunts, barks) and comments that are socially inappropriate vulgar or obsecene, or racial

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Exhibitionisn

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obtaining power, control and sexual arousal by exposing the genital area in public areas to strangers

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Fetishism

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obtaining sexual arousal from objects rather than a person

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Rape

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obtaining power, control and sexual arousal from forces sexual intercourse with a noncensting adult

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Sadism

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obtaining power, control, and sexual arousal by deliberately causing abuse, pain, humiliation, or bondage to another person

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Transsexualism

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person’s beliefs that he or she has been assigened to the wrong sexual identlty

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Transvestism

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obtaining sexual arousal by wearing clothes belonging to the opposite sex or posing as someone of the opposite sex

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Voyeurism

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practice in which an individual derives sexual pleasure from observing other people

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Munchausen syndrome

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exhibiting factitious medical or psychiatric symptoms; patients are aware that they are lying, but are unaware that their motivation is the desire fo assistance, attention, pity, and being exucsed from the normal expectations of life

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Depersonalization

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loss of connection between personal thoughts and sense of self and the environment

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Fufue state

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abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories

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Rorschach test

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inkblot test, using cards, patients is asked to describe what the inkblot shapes mean to them

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Hypnosis

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sleeplike trance, patient is still able to remember who htey are and what is happening