PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Parasomnia, Paraphilia, Pedophilia
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Phobia: fear of object or situation that is so intense that we avoid it at any cost. Panic disorder: dying, inability to breath, cloudiness of thoughts and vision, inability to remember the incident, doom, racing heart, tremor. Generalized anxiety disorder: worry, in fear of worst happening, always there, constant worry, uncontrollable. Belief the person is going to be losing their life or severely disabled by the traumatic events. Flashbacks, nightmares, difficulty talking about the events, emotional numbness. A. dissociative amnesia: forget entire past, time period. B. dissociative fugue: unexpectedly travel to new location, start new life cannot remember previous identity. C. dissociative identity disorder: multiple personality disorder. More than one dominate personality each is well developed. Unreality, detach , nothing around you is real, self- estrangement. A pattern of recurring sexually arousing mental imagery or behavior that involves unusual and especially socially unacceptable sexual practices (as sadism or pedophilia) Gender identity disorder: extreme uncomfortable with anatomical sex.
