a disorder in one's mental state
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Bipolar disorder
a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
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any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predom…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.any mental disorder in which delusions play a significant role
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predom…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predom…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.involuntary defecation not attributable to physical defects or illness
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.the simultaneous occurrence of symptoms of a mental disorder (as delusions) in two persons who are closely related (as siblings or man…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheade…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predom…
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A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mental, disorder, characterized, episodes, mania.a personality disorder characterized by amorality and lack of affect; capable of violent acts without guilt feelings (‘psychopathic pe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mental, disorder, characterized, episodes, mania.Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mental, disorder, characterized, episodes, mania.A mania for acquiring books.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mental, disorder, characterized, episodes, mania.One who has a mania for books.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mental, disorder, characterized, episodes, mania.a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mental, disorder, characterized, episodes, mania.A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mental, disorder, characterized, episodes, mania.To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mental, disorder, characterized, episodes, mania.Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mental, disorder, characterized, episodes, mania.To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassmen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mental, disorder, characterized, episodes, mania.The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mental, disorder, characterized, episodes, mania.Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers a…
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