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What is Generalized anxiety disorder?
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by apprehensive worry and physical symptoms of restlessness, fatigue, impaired concentration, irritability, muscle tension and/or insomnia. The main cognitive symptom of worry is defined by Wells and Butler: ‘Worry occurs as a chain of thoughts, which have a negative affect component. It is concerned with future events where there […]
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Hypochondriasis case study
Case study: hypochondriasis Terry is a 37-year-old married bank manager. He had developed a range of symptoms which caused him to fear that he had a brain tumour as he was having ‘migraine attacks’, blurred vision, dizziness, nausea and panic. Over time and following a range of investigations (CT scan, pathology tests, EEG) his beliefs […]
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Panic attacks case study
Case study: panic disorder Sharon was a 26-year-old single woman with a history of panic attacks that occurred out of the blue, including at night. Her first panic attack occurred some five years earlier while she was studying for her final exams at university. At that time she experienced intense symptoms of a pounding heart, […]
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Case study on PTSD
Case study: post-traumatic stress disorder Sean is a 37-year-old lorry driver in the army, who was involved in a civilian rescue following a coach crash. He was the first rescuer on the scene and climbed into the crashed coach when it was still unstable and when petrol was pouring out of the tank. While climbing […]
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Psychology definition of abnormal behavior
Defining Abnormal Behavior. Attempts to define abnormal, deviant, disordered, or psychopathological behavior in psychology have largely been disastrous, although this process is necessary to develop a classification system. Any number of attempts ranging from statistical to theoretical positions have been made; all cause more confusion than clarification. One possible solution to this problem is Wakefield’s […]
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Different types of abnormal behavior
The Classification of Abnormal Behavior: An Overview. Introduction From the beginnings of life, as organisms attempt to understand their environment, they seek to organize a vast array of incoming stimuli. The recognition of similarities and the ordering of objects into sets on the basis of their relationships are primordial classificatory abilities that begin at a […]
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Body dysmorphic disorder symptoms
Dysmorphophobia, originally conceptualized by Morselli in 1886, refers to a subjective feeling of ugliness or physical defect in a person of normal appearance. It also includes individuals with a minimal physical defect who react out of proportion to this defect. Dysmorphophobia is a label that has largely been used in Europe but ignored in the […]
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What is pain disorder:DSM-IV TR pain disorder
Pain disorder was previously known as somatoform pain disorder in DSM-III-R and as psychogenic pain disorder in DSM-III. The essential feature of pain disorder in DSM-IV is a preoccupation with pain in one or more anatomical areas that is sufficiently severe to warrant clinical attention; that causes impairment in daily living; and psychological factors, it […]
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List of negative emotions
Frequently negative feelings can get locked up inside us, and then they can fester. One of our most vital skills is developing an ability to listen to the true story of our lives: the conflict between the things we feel—the things our bodies register—and the things we think we ought to feel, so as to […]
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The most common anti-depressants
The way that the most common form of anti-depressant (SSRIs) works is that they help make more serotonin available to the cells in your brain. Serotonin is a natural neurotransmitter and is used in the transmission of messages from one brain cell to another. The SSRI anti-depressant prevents the re-uptake, or re-absorption, of serotonin back […]
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