Avoidance - The act of staying away from something (e.g. the phobic object or situation), Benzodiazepines - Antianxiety drugs used to treat OCD as they have a quietening effect on the brain and reduce anxiety causes by obsessive thoughts, Cognitive Bias - Error in thinking caused by simplified information processing, Deviation from the Ideal Mental Health - Not meeting criteria which suggest you are mentally healthy, Fear hierarchy - A list of situations related to the phobic object/situation arranged in order from least to most frightening, Negative Triad - hree types of negative thinking (self, the world and the future) that Beck suggested occur automatically in people who are depressed, Overgeneralisation - Cognitive error where you make a sweeping conclusion from a single incident, SERT Gene - gene which affects the transport of serotonin, causing lower levels of serotonin which is associated with OCD, SSRIs - Antidepressant drugs used to treat OCD which work by preventing the re-absorption and breakdown of serotonin, Unipolar depression - A major depressive episode that occurs without the manic phase,

Key Term - Psychopathology

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