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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an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images
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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
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To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.renal failure associated with burns or other trauma or with acute infection or obstruction of the urinary tract
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.renal failure associated with burns or other trauma or with acute infection or obstruction of the urinary tract
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.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: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheade…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.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: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amend…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheade…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheade…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.Guilt. See Guilt.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- oppose…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anxiety, disorder, associated, serious, traumatic.
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