fugue - forgetting one’s memory and life and creating another one somewhere else, amnesia - inability to remember who you are due to a traumatic psychological event, anxiety - disorder of apprehension and impending disaster; NOT associated with any object, catatonic - type of schizophrenia characterized by lack of movement and communication, ADHD - disorder involving inattention, restlessness, inability to concentrate; childhood disorder, mania - extreme highs; may involve hallucinations, echolalia - repeating what has just been said; common in autism, dissociativeidentity - when something traumatic happens and you create different personalities; formerly known as multiple personality disorder, hypochondriasis - belief that every minor cough or ache is a serious health problem/disease, agoraphobia - fear of leaving a familiar environment, dopamine - brain chemical found in excess in schizophrenics, dysthymic - moderate depression, phobia - fear of certain objects or events, i.e., heights, spiders, talking in front of a group of people, majordepression - severe depression; thoughts of suicide, OCD - disorder involving ritualized behavior; if it is not done, they cannot function, schizophrenia - worst type of psychological disorder; involves hallucinations and delusions; often does not appear until adulthood, dissociative - fugue, amnesia, and conversion disorder is this type, paranoid - type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations, conversion - psychological traumatic events manifests itself in physical symptoms, somatoform - type of disorders which include conversion and hypochondriasis,

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