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Flat Affect

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A severe reduction in emotional expressiveness, often related to schizophrenia or depression.

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Somatization

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The manifestation of psychological distress through physical symptoms, can be seen in somatic symptom disorder or in reaction to extreme stress.

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Catastrophizing

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Cognitive distortion involving the exaggeration of problems and the likelihood of disastrous outcomes, associated with anxiety and depression.

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Emotional Lability

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Rapid and exaggerated changes in mood, where emotional responses are poor or not appropriate, often associated with various neurological and psychiatric disorders.

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Tangentiality

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Tendency to speak about topics unrelated to the main subject of discussion, associated with conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

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Negative Symptoms

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Symptoms that involve the absence of normal behaviors found in healthy individuals. Examples include flat affect, alogia, and avolition, primarily seen in schizophrenia.

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Blunted Affect

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Significant reduction of the intensity of emotional expression, seen in schizophrenia and mood disorders.

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Alogia

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Poverty of speech, which may include a lack of content or quantity of speech, can be a negative symptom of schizophrenia.

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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Preoccupation with an imagined or minor defect in appearance that causes significant distress or impairment, classified as an obsessive-compulsive related disorder.

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Learned Helplessness

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Condition in which a person suffers from a perceived lack of control over the situation and thus gives up trying, associated with depression.

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Alexithymia

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Difficulty in identifying, describing, and working with one's own feelings, often seen in autism spectrum disorders and PTSD.

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Derealization

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Feeling of disconnection or estrangement from the surrounding world, typical in depersonalization-derealization disorder.

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Hyperphagia

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Abnormally increased appetite for food frequently associated with injury or disease of the hypothalamus, can also occur in mood disorders.

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Hypersomnia

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Excessive sleepiness, associated with various psychiatric disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and narcolepsy.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, central to dissociative amnesia and related to acute stress disorder.

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Hallucinations

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Perceptions in the absence of external stimuli, found in disorders like schizophrenia, delirium, or severe substance abuse.

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of being in situations where escape might be difficult, often associated with panic disorder.

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Compulsions

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Repetitive behaviors driven to perform in response to an obsession, typical for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

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Psychomotor Agitation

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Excessive motor activity associated with a feeling of inner tension, typically seen in manic episodes and sometimes in major depressive disorder.

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Thought Insertion

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Belief that thoughts not one's own are being inserted into one's mind, commonly associated with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia.

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Depersonalization

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Feelings of detachment or estrangement from one's own self, a central symptom in depersonalization-derealization disorder.

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Catatonia

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Abnormality of movement and behavior arising from a disturbed mental state, can occur in schizophrenia or severe mood disorders.

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Anosognosia

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Lack of insight or awareness about one's own illness, often found in patients with schizophrenia or after strokes affecting the brain's right hemisphere.

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Neologism

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Creation of new words or phrases which make sense to the individual but not to others, typically found in thought disorders like schizophrenia.

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Dissociation

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Discontinuity and lack of integration of consciousness, memory, identity, and other functions, seen in disorders like dissociative identity disorder.

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Perseveration

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Continuation of a particular response despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, commonly found in disorders such as autism, OCD, and schizophrenia.

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Magical Thinking

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Belief that one's thoughts, words, or actions can influence events in a way that defies the laws of cause and effect, seen in obsessive-compulsive disorder and psychosis.

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Avoidant Behavior

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The practice of steering clear of feared stimuli or situations, commonly seen in anxiety disorders, including specific phobias and social anxiety disorder.

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Conversion Disorder

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Neurological symptoms, such as paralysis or blindness, that cannot be explained by medical evaluation, occurring due to psychological factors.

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Anhedonia

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Inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities, associated with major depressive disorder and schizophrenia.

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Delusions

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Strong beliefs held despite clear contradictory evidence, characteristic of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.

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Hyperarousal

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An increased state of sensory sensitivity accompanied by an exaggerated intensity of behaviors, often associated with PTSD and anxiety disorders.

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Circumstantiality

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Speech that is indirect and delayed in reaching its point because of unnecessary details, often seen in people with schizophrenia or dementia.

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Echolalia

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Automatic and involuntary repetition of words or phrases just spoken by others, often observed in autism spectrum disorder and Tourette syndrome.

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Paranoia

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Irrational feelings of being persecuted or plotted against, typical of paranoid schizophrenia and delusional disorder.

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Avolition

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Reduction in the motivation to initiate and perform self-directed purposeful activities, often a negative symptom associated with schizophrenia.

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Psychosomatic Symptoms

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Physical symptoms that are thought to be caused, or exacerbated by, mental factors like stress and anxiety, common in somatic symptom disorder.

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Grandiosity

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Exaggerated sense of one's importance, power, knowledge, or identity, often found in bipolar disorder during manic episodes or in narcissistic personality disorder.

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Ideas of Reference

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Misinterpretation of incidents and events in the outside world as having direct personal references, seen in schizophrenia and delusional disorders.

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