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Personality Disorder:
A disorder in which a person adopts a persistent, rigid, and maladaptive pattern of behavior that interferes with normal social interactions
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Psychopathology:
The study of abnormal behavior
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:
The disorder in which intruding, recurring thoughts or obsessions create anxiety that is relieved by performing a repetitive, ritualistic behavior or mental act (compulsion)
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Phobia:
An irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity
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Bipolar Disorder:
Severe mood swings between major depressive episodes and manic episodes
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Dissociative Disorders:
Disorders in which there is a break in conscious awareness, memory, the sense of identity, or some combination
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Major Depression:
Severe depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause, or is too severe for current circumstances
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Hallucinations:
False sensory perceptions, such as hearing voices that do not really exist
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Schizophrenia:
A severe disorder in which the person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, hallucinations, and inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality
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Delusions:
False beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness
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