PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Behaviour Therapy, Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder
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A variety of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms that: Ex: someone has died, and you feel that you talk/see them sometimes. Is this person hallucinating, or is this culturally normal for them to report seeing, hearing the dead. Or the apa"s (american psychiatric association) definition. Distress: bother the individual to feel this way. Disability: negatively affects your ability to function every day. Ex: imagine you see a man raising his hands to the sky, shaking his fists and shouting. He claims that beings from outer space speak to him and that he can talk to them. Ex: a person you know begins crying excessively, withdraws socially, and is not acting like him/herself at all. For two weeks, this person does not leave the house except to go to work and stops talking to friends. Ex: imagine you see a person in the grocery store.
