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Schizophrenia - Answer A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized
and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and
actions.
Schizophreniform - Answer Psychotic disorder involving the symptoms of
schizophrenia but lasting less than 6 months.
Schizotypal - Answer Class A personality disorder. A personality disorder
characterized by extreme discomfort in close relationships, odd forms of thinking and
perceiving, and behavioral eccentricities. Researches believe that symptoms are
often linked to family conflict.
Schizoaffective Disorder - Answer A psychotic disorder involving an uninterrupted
period of disturbance in which there are concurrent symptoms of a mood disorder
and the active-phase symptoms of schizophrenia with at least a tow-week period in
which hallucinations and delusions are present without predominant mood
symptoms.
psychotic disorder - Answer A psychological disorder in which a person loses contact
with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions. A break in reality
Borderline personality disorder - Answer a personality disorder characterized by lack
of stability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotion; impulsivity; angry
outbursts; intense fear of abandonment; recurring suicidal gestures
intrapsychic conflict - Answer Conflict within the mind, often due to conflict b/w id,
ego, superego and reality
Brief psychotic disorder - Answer A psychotic disorder lasting from a day to a month
that often follows exposure to a major stressor.
Delusional disorder - Answer A. Nonbizarre delusions (i.e., involving situations that
occur in real life, such as being followed, poisoned, infected, loved at a distance, or
deceived by spouse or lover, or having a disease) of at least 1 month's duration.
Schizoid - Answer Cluster A personality disorder. Persistent avoidance of social
relationships and limited emotional expression.
Schizophrenia Paranoid type - Answer Preoccupation with one or more delusions or
frequent auditory hallucinations re: fear of being harmed or watched. No
disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, or flat or inappropriate
affect
If a Panic attack or Depressive Mood is caused by by a medical condition it is called?
- Answer Anxiety disorder or Mood Disorder.
A person with hyperthyroid condition may experience what? - Answer panic attacks