Agoraphobia - Fear of crowds, assemblies of people and open spaces., Antisocial personality disorder - Tendency to appear calm and charming while behaving in the opposite manner; no sense of shame or remores, self-centred, incapable of love or affection, likely to violate the rights of others., Anxiety disorders - Mental disorder in which the frequency and intensity of feeling anxious is disproportionate to the situation and interferes with everyday life., Behavioural approach - Uses principles of classical and operant conditioning to examine how factors or stimuli in the environment can influence behaviours., Borderline personality disorder (BPD) - Extreme instability of moods and relationships with other people., Cognitive bias - Error in thinking affecting decisions and judgement., Cognitive model - Examines how thought processes influence feelings and behaviours, and the role distorted thinking plays in the development and maintenance of psychological conditions., Delusions - False beliefs that are strongly held despite evidence that they cannot be true., Delusions of grandeur - Belief that one is extremely important., Delusions of persecution - Belief one is being watched or monitored; characteristic of paranoid schizophrenia., Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) - Characterised by excessive anxiety about several aspects of life., Hallucinations - False perceptions in the absence of sensory input., Major depressive disorder (MDD) - Diagnosed when an individual shows severe symptoms of flattened mood, low self-esteem, and lack of motivation for an extended period of time., Personality disorders - Disorders in which an individual showss a rigid and unhealthy pattern on thinking, functioning and behaving., Phobia - Irrational fear of a specific object or situation., Psychological disorder - Any psychological dysfunction that is associated with distress or impairment in mood, behaviour or cognition that can adversely affect an individual in their everyday functioning., Psychotic disorder - Can cause abnormal thinking or behaviour and a loss of contact with reality., Schizophrenia - Disease causing patients to suffer from deluded thinking, hallucinations and depression., Social phobias (social anxiety disorder) - Fear of being humiliated in front of people., Specific phobias - Fear of specific objects or situations such as illness, injury, disease or death., Stress - Psychological and physical response to internal or external sources of tension that challenge a person's ability to cope; can be real or perceived., Word salad - Jumble of meaningless words and phrases; commonly seen in schizophrenic states.,

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