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generalized anxiety disorder
an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
phobia
irrayional fear
Panic disorder
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.
Claustrophobia
fear of enclosed or narrow spaces
Arachnophobia
fear of spiders
Agoraphobia
An abnormal fear of open or public places
Major depressive disorder
a disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure
Dysthymia
two years od a milder affective disorder characterized by chronic depression
Bipolar disorder
A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
Bipolar disorder 1
mood swings-back and forth between mania and depression, psychotic episodes treatment: lithium
Bipolar Disorder 2
recurrent major depressive episodes alternating with hypomanic episodes
Cyclothymia
a relatively mild but longer-lasting form of bipolar disorder constantly fluctuates
