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Personality disorders (PD) are a group of psychiatric conditions characterized by experience and behavior patterns that cause serious problems with respect to any two of the following: thinking, mood, personal relations, and the control of impulses.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Personality disorders are a group of psychiatric conditions in which chronic behavior patterns cause serious problems with relationships and work.
Source:ADAM
Date:October 17, 2008
A psychosocial disorder is a mental illness caused or influenced by life experiences, as well as maladjusted cognitive and behavioral processes.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Long-standing, deeply ingrained patterns of social behavior that are detrimental to those who display them or to others.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Post-traumatic stress disorder, often abbreviated as PTSD, is a complex disorder in which the affected person's memory, emotional responses, intellectual processes, and nervous system have all been disrupted by one or more traumatic experiences. I...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after you've seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death.
Source:ADAM
Date:January 20, 2009
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition that affects people who have been exposed to a major traumatic event. PTSD is characterized by upsetting memories or thoughts of the ordeal, "blunting" of emotions, increased arousa...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating psychological condition trigged by a traumatic event, such as rape, war, a terrorist act, sudden or violent death of a loved one, natural disaster, or catastrophic accident. It is marked by r...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is primarily caused by human reactions to events outside the realm of ordinary life experience. Domestic and criminal violence, natural disasters, and transportation accidents are major categories of incidents...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Mood disorders are mental disorders characterized by periods of depression, sometimes alternating with periods of elevated mood.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Affective disorders are psychiatric diseases with multiple aspects, including biological, behavioral, social, and psychological factors. Major depressive disorder, bipolar disorders, and anxiety disorders are the most common affective disorders. T...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Mood disorders are mental disorders characterized by periods of depression, sometimes alternating with periods of elevated mood.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a condition characterized by a long-lasting depressed mood or marked loss of interest or pleasure (anhedonia) in all or nearly all activities. Children and adolescents with MDD may be irritable instead of sad. Th...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Major depression is when a person has five or more symptoms of depression for at least 2 weeks. These symptoms include feeling sad, hopeless, worthless, or pessimistic. In addition, people with major depression often have behavior changes, such as...
Source:ADAM
Date:January 20, 2009
Depression, also known as depressive disorders or unipolar depression, is a mental illness characterized by a profound and persistent feeling of sadness or despair and/or a loss of interest in things that once were pleasurable. Disturbance in slee...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
When discussing depression as a symptom, a feeling of hopelessness is the most often described sensation. Depression is a common psychiatric disorder in the modern world and a growing cause of concern for health agencies worldwide due to the high ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
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