PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Syphilis, Panic Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
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Psychological disorder patterns of thoughts, feelings, or actions that are deviant, distressful and dysfunctional. Patterns finding a collection of symptoms that tend to go together. Distress & dysfunction symptoms must be sufficiently severe to interfere with one"s daily life and well being. Deviant differing from norm in a particular culture. Deviant level of attentiveness, impulsiveness, restlessness that goes beyond. Distressful enjoy being energetic, or are they frustrated that they can"t. One reason to diagnose a disorder is to make decisions about treating the problem. To treat a disorder, it helps to understand the nature/cause of the psychological symptoms. Syphillis can cause mental disorder of mental disorders. Possession but a sickness of the mind. The medical model world began searching for physical causes and treatments. Have clear and same definition of disorder. Consistent with diagnoses used by medical doctors worldwide. Minutes long episodes of intense fear may include feelings of terror, chest pains, trembling, feeling faint.
