ADD
/ˈæd/
nouna behavioral disorder, most common in children, characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and learning disability
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1. They are expensive because the cost of transporting them is added to the price.
2. After a certain point, the added weight no longer yields additional range.
3. Add cheese.
4. The portuguese however, added a twist.
5. Add your milk.
ADHD
/ˌeɪdˌiːˌeɪtʃdˈiː/
nouna condition, experienced mostly by children, making them seem restless, unable to keep focus, and act impulsively
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1. Also with ADHD, the loss of time has a cumulative effect.
2. Do I have ADHD?
3. So his daughter has ADHD.
4. ADHD can cause impulsivity.
5. My cousin's have ADHD!
anorexia nervosa
/ˌænoːɹˈɛksiə nɜːvˈoʊsə/
nounan eating disorder, particularly in women, marked by body image disturbance and obsessive fear of becoming fat, which leads to dangerous weight loss
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1. Lauren was finally admitted to a psychiatric hospital where she was treated for anorexia nervosa.
2. As I'm sure you can see by the different diagnosis out there, there's only one eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, that has a weight component to its diagnosis.
3. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, one of the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa was loss of your period.
4. And the next criteria is that the eating disorder does not occur exclusively during the course of anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa.
5. 90% of anorexia nervosa cases worldwide happen in women.
anxiety
/æŋˈzaɪəti/
noun(psychiatry) a mental disorder of constant nervousness and worry, in which one expects something bad to happen with no valid reason
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1. And anxiety affects sexual response.
2. Create anxiety.
3. Create anxiety.
4. Create anxiety.
5. Wealth just brings anxiety.
battle fatigue
/bˈæɾəl fɐtˈiːɡ/
nouna post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from prolonged exposure to active warfare
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1. Maybe the only refuse to be lonely, stacking degrees and university IDs like trading cards and passports to safe havens when weary of racial battle fatigue from being sidelined in the major league, almost free.
bipolar disorder
/baɪpˈoʊlɚ dɪsˈoːɹdɚ/
nouna chronic mental health condition marked by episodes of mania and depression
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1. With only confusing signals as a guide, people with bipolar disorder develop abnormal thoughts and behaviors.
2. Mood swings are not Bipolar Disorder.
3. Bipolar disorder is much less common than depression.
4. My sister, Jessie, Calen’s mom, lives with bipolar disorder.
5. Around 3% of the population experiences bipolar disorder every year.
borderline personality disorder
/bˈoːɹdɚlˌaɪn pˌɜːsənˈælɪɾi dɪsˈoːɹdɚ/
nouna mental illness that causes a person to act impulsively, to experience severe shifts in mood, and to be unable to form interpersonal relationships
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1. Borderline personality disorder is pervasive.
2. Learn about borderline personality disorder.
3. It's Borderline Personality Disorder.
4. - I have Borderline Personality Disorder.
5. - I have borderline personality disorder.
breakdown
/ˈbɹeɪkˌdaʊn/
nouna condition in which a person becomes so anxious or depressed that they can no longer handle their everyday life
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1. I often have breakdowns.
2. Breakdowns can attract attention of the four-legged variety.
3. Brad Parr scale has a breakdown.
4. A protein-rich diet will complement muscle breakdown.
5. Here's the breakdown.
bulimia
/bjuˈɫɪmiə/
nouna mental illness which causes a person to eat too much and then forces themselves to vomit to maintain their weight
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1. Another common eating disorder is bulimia nervosa.
2. Bulimia it is.
3. People with bulimia usually maintain a somewhat normal weight rather than being underweight.
4. Do not take bulimia lightly.
5. We were looking for bulimia.
exhibitionism
/ɛksɪbˈɪʃənˌɪzəm/
nouncompulsive display of one's genitals for the purpose of sexual gratification
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1. One is exhibitionism.
2. And in analysis one uncovers motives in oneself such as exhibitionism, aggression, and other uncomfortable pieces of one's identity.
3. And this idea of-- we always grope at the word for it, but it's like grief exhibitionism maybe or this idea of having to put yourself into a tragedy.
4. Some people feel as of being open and sharing oneself over the world completely is a tasteless form of public exhibitionism.
5. You will need Low self-respect A touch of exhibitionism and a complete lack of morals.
gender dysphoria
/dʒˈɛndɚ dɪsfˈoːɹiə/
nounthe condition in which a person is overwhelmed by distress or impairment due to a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity
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1. Suggesting that gender dysphoria can cause an extreme amount of emotional pain even to the point of suicide.
2. If you, a family member, or a friend is suffering from gender dysphoria , there are few links in the description for more information.
3. And stay tuned for my video on gender dysphoria.
4. But numerous studies show that depression among people with gender dysphoria is linked to society's treatment of them, including discrimination, family rejection and lack of access to gender-affirming health care.
5. Gender dysphoria is a real condition and this surgery saves lives.
hyperactivity
/ˌhaɪpɝækˈtɪvɪti/
nouna state where a person is unusually active, is unable to stay focused or quiet for long, experienced mostly by children
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1. This hyperactivity of the norepinephrine in your brain is thought to be causing the shock like feeling.
2. But stimulants and hyperactivity seem like a weird match.
3. Maybe your impulsivity or hyperactivity lead to disciplinary problems.
4. This includes attention deficit and hyperactivity, Tourette's, autism giftedness, among others.
5. ADHD stands for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and is often described as a mental disorder.
hypochondria
/ˌhaɪpəˈkɑndɹiə/
nouna mental condition in which a person is constantly anxious and worried about their health
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1. The person without hypochondria recognizes that they feel anxious, and can put the symptoms into context.
2. In contrast, the person with hypochondria isn't reassured by that doctor's visit.
3. And this is the life of the person with hypochondria.
4. People with hypochondria don't believe that a healthy person can stand up and feel dizzy.
5. Hypochondria usually begins in early adulthood and affects men and women equally.
kleptomania
/klˌɛptəmˈeɪniə/
nouna mental condition in which one is obsessed with stealing things without any financial motive
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1. Today, I'm answering a viewer question about kleptomania.
2. Kleptomania is an impulse control disorder.
3. But with kleptomania, it's like mindless acquisition of objects.
4. So that's kleptomania.
5. Pyromania and kleptomania are also categorized as DIC disorders.
manic depression
/mˈænɪk dɪpɹˈɛʃən/
nouna chronic mental disorder marked by excessive mood swings ranging from depressive lows to crazed highs
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1. You've probably heard of manic depression.
2. He identified schizophrenia and manic depression, which he termed manic depressive insanity.
3. Some believe Kraepelin's original broader concept of manic depression more accurately describes what we see in practice.
4. Bipolar disorder, which used to be called manic depression, is a serious mental illness that causes a person to have dramatic shifts in emotions, mood, and energy levels: moving from extreme lows to extreme highs.
5. Also known as manic depression, bipolar disorder is a mental illness that can be controlled with medication.
megalomania
/ˌmɛɡəɫoʊˈmeɪniə/
nouna mental condition in which a person believes themselves to be more powerful and important than they actually are
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1. This can be getting your aggression out in the gym, satiating your megalomania with a video game or a board game about world domination, BDSM, or watching Rick and Morty.
2. It's sort of megalomania in a way, to put it in a pejorative term.
3. I'd seen flashes of megalomania, but I didn't know how diabolical he actually was.
4. It's almost a story of megalomania.
5. So this is megalomania, and doesn't show much imagination.
melancholia
/mˌɛlənkˈoʊliə/
nouna severe mental condition in which the patient suffers from depression often without any apparent reason
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1. Melancholia comes from melaina kole, the word for black bile, the humor believed to cause sadness.
2. So melancholia, or the melancholic temperament, which is associated with sadness, lethargy, what would be medicalized now as depression, is from a predominance of black bile.
3. An excess of black bile causes melancholia.
4. And of course a bit of melancholia can also be beautiful, and I think the occasional sad moment on the dance floor is perfectly ok too.
catatonia
/kˌæɾɐtˈoʊniə/
nouna mental condition usually associated with schizophrenia in which the patient doesn't move for long time spans
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1. Flour beetles with low dopamine levels play dead more frequently than those with high levels, and anything blocking dopamine receptor sites can lengthen catatonia.
2. And I have written down, It could Catatonia as well.
3. In extreme cases, schizophrenia can result in catatonia, which is the inability to move or respond, although that’s super rare.
4. There are two main types of catatonia, one which can render the victim stiff in one position, unable to move, speak, or do anything.
5. You can also have a kind of opposite catatonia, where you are extremely hyperactive.
depression
/dɪˈpɹɛʃən/
nouna mental condition in which a person feels severe sadness and dejection, usually with physical symptoms such as insomnia, lethargy, etc.
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1. Too much black bile, for example, causes depression.
2. Depression can really distort your perception about your future.
3. Even famous people have depression, like Kristen Bell, the star of The Good Place.
4. Depression came.
5. For example, 25% of cancer patients experience depression.
psychopathy
/saɪˈkɑpəθi/
nouna serious mental disorder associated with antisocial behavior, irresponsibility, and absence of empathy
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1. This pattern has been referred to as 'Psychopathy' and 'Sociopathy'.
2. The first thing is psychopathy.
3. Psychopathy is really interesting.
4. So, these disorders like autism, Asperger's Syndrome, conduct disorder and psychopathy are predominately male.
5. Mental health professionals might use this as a test, a psychopathy test.
psychosis
/saɪˈkoʊsəs/
nouna severe mental condition in which the patient loses contact with external reality
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1. Postpartum psychosis can include the depressive symptoms of postpartum depression along with confusion, disorientation, Hallucinations, and paranoia.
2. He had psychosis.
3. So psychosis can be present in a variety of problems.
4. What is psychosis?
5. Long term adverse effects include hallucinations, psychosis, cardiac arrest, and death.
psychosomatic disorder
/sˌaɪkoʊsəmˈæɾɪk dɪsˈoːɹdɚ/
nouna psychological condition characterized by physical symptoms that derive from mental or emotional causes, often without any medical explanation
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1. But there's much more to it than that, such as getting into the mind-body connection, as there's a large overlap with psychosomatic disorders in children, such as anxious kids with abdominal pain.
pyromania
/pˌaɪɹoʊmˈeɪniə/
nouna mental condition in which one is obsessed with setting things on fire
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1. And there are other disorders that have mania in the name like pyromania, which is compulsive fire setting.
2. I'm a pyromania bro.
3. Pyromania and kleptomania are also categorized as DIC disorders.
4. Pyromania describes individuals who purposefully and repeatedly set fires, but unlike arsonists, who set fires to deliberately damage property or for political gain- individuals with pyromania experience fire setting as a compulsion- feeling a strong impulse to set fires and feeling relief and often euphoria once they do.
5. Not surprisingly, both pyromania and kleptomania can easily land individuals in serious legal trouble.
schizophrenia
/ˌskɪtsəˈfɹiniə/
nouna chronic mental disorder in which a person's ability to think, feel or behave is affected, often associated with the distortion of reality
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1. But not all people with schizotypal personality disorder develop schizophrenia.
2. Or schizophrenia can cause false beliefs or sensations.
3. The schizophrenia show a much reduced-- the MMN, Mismatch Negative wave.
4. My nephew, Calen, lives with schizophrenia.
5. What causes schizophrenia?
seasonal affective disorder
/sˈiːzənəl ɐfˈɛktɪv dɪsˈoːɹdɚ/
nouna medical condition in which one is depressed in fall and winter, particularly due to lack of sunlight
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1. Bright light therapy, traditionally, was used for seasonal affective disorder.
2. But it is an antidote to seasonal affective disorder.
3. It works a little bit differently from unipolar depression or seasonal affective disorder.
4. Then, of course, we have good-old seasonal affective disorder.
5. Depression can also be associated with a seasonal affective disorder.
inferiority complex
/ɪnfˌiəɹɪˈɔːɹɪɾi kˈɑːmplɛks/
nounan unrealistic feeling of general inadequacy that causes one to believe they are not as competent, smart, or attractive as other people
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1. People with inferiority complexes who wanted to shout with the crowd.
2. And then there's the inferiority complex archetype, which I could have just called "The majority of children in Fire Emblem: Fates."
3. If you've got an inferiority complex you suffer from an over-modest self-regard.
4. It creates an inferiority complex that is hardly ever talked about.
5. Your inferiority complex is just making everything look impossible.
instability
/ˌɪnstəˈbɪɫɪti/
nountendency to unpredictable changes of mood or to behave erratically
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1. That instability contributes to tribal colleges' low graduation rate, just 19 percent.
2. But this reform could also create more instability.
3. There was instability.
4. We got public choice instability.
5. Its instability makes it one of the most dangerous chemical elements in existence.
delirium
/dɪˈɫɪɹiəm/
nouna usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations
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1. Those are all symptoms of delirium.
2. Delirium, by contrast, is an acute confusional state.
3. It could not be delirium.
4. Such symptoms are often categorized as delirium.
5. -My book is called Delirium.
complex
/ˈkɑmpɫɛks/, /kəmˈpɫɛks/
nouna group of partly or completely repressed emotions or impulses that affect a person's behavior and patterns of thought
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1. He created a complex map of an average human head.
2. He created a complex map of an average human head.
3. The nomenclature of your question was complex.
4. Languages are complex.
5. Space is complex.
mental disorder
/mˈɛntəl dɪsˈoːɹdɚ/
nouna severe health condition associated with depression, emotional disturbances, and abnormal behaviors that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning
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1. This is no longer a mental disorder.
2. - Can mental disorders be cured?
3. A mental breakdown is a mental disorder.
4. Mental Disorders: Mental disorders are another possible consequence of magnesium deficiency.
5. Mental Disorders: Mental disorders are another possible consequence of magnesium deficiency.
nervous breakdown
/nˈɜːvəs bɹˈeɪkdaʊn/
nouna period of overwhelming mental or emotional distress that occurs suddenly
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1. And I had a nervous breakdown.
2. He had a nervous breakdown.
3. Characters have nervous breakdowns and struggle with depression and constructions of self.
4. Had also a nervous breakdown.
5. Then he suffers a nervous breakdown.
neurosis
/nʊˈɹoʊsəs/
nouna mental condition that is not caused by organic disease in which one is constantly anxious, worried, and stressed
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1. We couldn't descend into neuroses.
2. Freud attempted to invent a treatment for our many neuroses: psychoanalysis.
3. They're isolated by their own neuroses, the tyranny of the nurses and a barricade of concrete, plexiglass and barbed wire.
4. Emptiness, neuroses, complexes of various sorts set in and ultimately, the judgement.
5. The psychologists and psychiatrists call irrational fear neurosis.
OCD
/ˈɑːkd/
nouna disorder causing a person to have recurring unwanted thoughts or to do something such as cleaning or checking on something over and over
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1. Many individuals with OCD actually understand the relationship between their obsessions and compulsions quite well.
2. Please do a video on OCD.
3. Often times people with OCD will have dysfunctional beliefs.
4. But some common culprits include depression, OCD, insomnia, sleep apnea, night terrors, and problems with the nervous system.
5. Stacked all up, OCD style.
paranoia
/ˌpɛɹəˈnɔɪə/
nouna mental disorder that causes a person to think they are very important or that others are trying to harm them
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1. From this point, his paranoia took on new dimensions.
2. Pardon the paranoia.
3. His paranoia led to the deaths of millions of people.
4. But Eisenhower’s paranoia just saved your life.
5. Bin had some paranoia
personality disorder
/pˌɜːsənˈælɪɾi dɪsˈoːɹdɚ/
nounany mental illness characterized by different patterns of social behavior, inability to form healthy interpersonal relationships and to function normally in society
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1. Personality disorders fall into this category.
2. - Are personality disorders mental illness?
3. The only real diagnosis for these things is antisocial personality disorder.
4. These people have narcissistic personality disorder.
5. Females have characteristically different personality disorders.
post-partum depression
/pˈoʊstpˈɑːɹɾəm dɪpɹˈɛʃən/
nouna mental condition in which a woman is depressed and anxious for a period of time after giving birth to a child
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1. After I had my son, I was going through post-partum depression.
2. Post-partum depression is a well-known phenomenon.
3. There's a fairly new trend of mothers eating the placenta after the child is born, as it's thought to combat the post-partum depression and improve breast milk production.
4. Maybe you're not feeling bonded to your child, maybe you're feeling teary-eyed, sniffly and sad, but I do wanna say that if you feel that you actually have post-partum depression, certainly you can watch this video but that is not enough.
5. Now, if this was ever you in the past, if you had any kind of baby blues or post-partum depression or just depression on your parenting journey, please let us know in the comments below.
PTSD
/pˌiːtˌiːˌɛsdˈiː/
nouna disorder that is formed in a person who has experienced a very shocking or frightening event, causing them to have nightmares or flashbacks from the event
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1. But PTSD coach has another problem.
2. Some of y'all have PTSD over that Scripture.
3. PTSD That’s not always easy when you have PTSD.
4. Do you have PTSD?
5. - It's PTSD!
shell shock
/ʃˈɛl ʃˈɑːk/
nouna type of stress-related disorder affecting some soldiers who have served in wars
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1. we called it shell shock.
2. But in the case of shell shock, it was obvious what the trauma was.
3. Ok, well maybe a VPN won’t protect me from an egg shooting at me but heck, Shell Shock is sure fun.
4. Wow, I'm shell shocked by that.
5. Also, things like shell shock were first identified at this time after the war.
eating disorder
/ˈiːɾɪŋ dɪsˈoːɹdɚ/
nouna mental condition that causes a person to eat too much or too little
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1. That includes loss of menstruation, osteoporosis, or bone mineral loss, and eating disorders.
2. Myth number four, that eating disorders only affect women.
3. Eating disorders, whatever it is.
4. Eating disorders affect almost 10% of the world population.
5. Eating disorders affect millions of people world wide.
delusion
/dɪˈɫuʒən/
noun(psychology) a mental condition in which a person has a false belief system that is contradicted by evidence
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1. Fregoli delusion has the opposite problem.
2. The delusions can take on a persecutory or nihilistic tone.
3. You have delusions.
4. They have delusions of grandeur.
5. Dexamethasone, rare side effect of the drug includes grandiose delusions.
dementia
/dɪˈmɛnʃiə/
nouna mental condition that happens when the brain is damaged by disease or injury, causing memory loss and impairing the ability to think or make decisions
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1. Only a small percentage of older adults actually have dementia.
2. My mom has dementia.
3. Vascular disease in the brain can cause dementia.
4. Joe Biden has dementia.
5. Many people around the world have dementia.
generalized anxiety disorder
/dʒˈɛnɚɹəlˌaɪzd æŋzˈaɪəɾi dɪsˈoːɹdɚ/
nounan anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
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1. The broadest of these is Generalized Anxiety Disorder or GAD.
2. And some of us, the anxiety lasts, like, forever and ever, all day every day, if you have Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
3. So that's GAD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
4. We would have Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or agoraphobia, with panic attacks.
5. This anxiety may be a sign of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, sometimes shortened to GAD.
mania
/ˈmeɪniə/
nounmental condition that causes extreme and unusual changes in one's energy level, mood, or emotions
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1. Therefore not all Bipolar patients have Mania.
2. - What is mixed mania?
3. Manias can be good.
4. Manias can be alarming.
5. So English mania is a turning point.
munchausen syndrome
/mˈʌntʃɔːsən sˈɪndɹoʊm/
nounsyndrome consisting of feigning acute and dramatic illness for which no clinical evidence is ever found
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1. I forget what it is, but it's like Munchausen Syndrome or something.
2. Cus the only reason people fake illnesses I think its called Munchausen Syndrome, if I'm saying that correctly, and that's when we kind of fake being sick for attention or there's another one for if you fake it for financial gain but most people, the percentage of people that do that, in the whole world, is very low.
3. One example of the extreme side of this shadow is Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, whereby a person fulfills their needs for positive attention by hurting someone else (usually their child) so as to keep them in the role of being 'sick' so that they can gain support and personal attention by taking on a fictitious hero-role.
schizoid
/skˈɪtsɔɪd/
nouncharacterized by symptoms similar to but less severe than schizophrenia
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1. Schizoid personality disorder falls under cluster A of the personality disorders.
2. The three personalities in this group are schizoid, schizotypal and paranoid.
3. The person with schizoid personality disorder doesn't want the intimacy.
4. You can think of it this way, the schizoid person keeps people at an arm's distance.
5. Schizoid personality disorder is a pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression.
amnesia
/æmˈniʒə/
nouna severe medical condition that leads to partial or complete loss of memory
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1. Before all of this, I pretty much had amnesia.
2. Those other amnesias are the result of brain damage.
3. It's investor amnesia.
4. The first type is anterograde amnesia
5. The most common symptoms are confusion and amnesia.
senile dementia
/sˈiːnaɪl dɪmˈɛnʃə/
nouna severe condition that mainly affects older people's minds and causes memory loss, involuntary movements, etc.
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1. Elevated levels of cortisol can cause memory problems or trouble trouble retrieving information and this is the same kind of decline in memory that we see with age-related changes that's that's one of the causes of age-related or senile dementia we sometimes refer to it as.
body dysmorphic disorder
/bˈɑːdi dɪsmˈoːɹfɪk dɪsˈoːɹdɚ/
nouna mental health condition where individuals become overly obsessed with perceived flaws in their appearance, leading to distress and impairment in daily life
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1. First question says, 'Hey Kati, I was wondering if someone has an eating disorder,' 'Do they have body Body Dysmorphic Disorder as well?'
2. Which is Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
3. - Hey everyone, today's video topic is BDD, or Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
4. So like I said, today's video topic is BDD, or Body Dysmorphic Disorder, which I'll call BDD from now on, cause it's like (babbling), it's too much to say, right?
5. So what is Body Dysmorphic Disorder and how do we know if we have it?
