a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.
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Exogenous depression
an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief)
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a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.
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(physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body; "with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.(physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body; "with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-mad…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.language or humor that is down-to-earth; "the saltiness of their language was inappropriate"; "self-parody and saltiness riddled their…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment; "the control condition was inappropriate for the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment; "the control condition was inappropriate for the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspnaea, in which the blood is insufficiently arte…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inappropriate, depression, precipitated, events, life.inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
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