Mental Disorders

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What are the three most common mental disorders?
Phobias, Depression, OCD
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What are the three characteristics of a mental disorder?
Emotional, behavioural and cognitive
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What is a phobia?
You have a phobia of Something when it causes high levels of anxiety
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What are the characteristics of a phobia?
Emotional: it persistently is unreasonable and excessive. Behavioural: Avoiding the stimulus, Cognitive: Irrational thoughts about the phobia
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What is depression?
Mood disorder, feels sad and lacks motivation.
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Characteristics of depression?
Emotional: sadness. Behavioural: loss of interest. Cognitive: Lack of motivation
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What is OCD?
Anxiety disorder, which leads you to have obsessions, persistent thoughts, and compulsions, repetitive behaviours
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Characteristics of OCD?
Emotional: Anxiety and distress. Behavioural: repetitive compulsive behaviours. Cognitive: recurrent, intrusive thoughts or impulses
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