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PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS VOCABULARY - LESSON 188

Now in this post we will revise some vocabulary of psychiatric symptoms and disorders. PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS:- 1. Affect:- External emotion or emotional response. 2. Amnesia:- Memory loss. 3. Anorexia nervosa:- An eating disorder of excessive dieting to maintain an original body weight by refusion. 4. Anxiety disorders:- Unpleasant tension, distress, and avoidance behavior are the characters of this disorders. Examples of this disorders are obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. 5. Apathy:- The absence of emotional involvement or emotions lack of interest absent. 6. Autism:- Withdrawal, more lack of response to other people, inability to interact, and development of retarded language. 7. Bipolar disorder:- Mania and depression with intermixed periods. 8. Bulimia nervosa;- Binge eating followed by vomiting and depression is an eating disorder. 9. Compulsion:- An action which is repeatedly uncontrollably urged to perform. 10. Conversio...