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What are school anxiety(tests & homework), social stressors and family interactions?
These are three common courses of mental stress in teenagers.
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What is, the psychiatrist can prescribe medication while the psychologist can use assessments and psychotherapy.
This is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist.
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What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by unwanted thoughts or images that cause anxiety including a need for things to be in certain order.
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What is misconception?
Truth or Misconception: neat freaks have OCD
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What is the integumentary system?
This body system is the first line of defence responsible for keeping pathogens out of the body.
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What is a persons condition with regard to their psychological well-being?
This is the definition of mental health.
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Depressed mood, Decreased interest or pleasure, Significant weight change, Change in sleep, Change in activity, Fatigue, Guilt/worthlessness,Concentration, Suicidal.
These are three symptoms that the DRM-V requires for someone to be diagnosed clinically depressed?
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What is Alzheimer's disease?
This mental health disorder is related to plaque buildup on the brain.
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What is misconception?
Truth or Misconception: Someone with Phantom Limb is not actually feeling any pain.
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What is heart attack?
Myocardial Infarction is a technical name for this condition or event.
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What is eustress?
This is the name for positive stress.
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What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
This disorder is frequently found in military members and first responders.(full name, no acronyms)
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What is having many symptoms, which don't all appear in every case of this affliction?
This is what is meant when Autism/Aspberger's is referred to as a "spectrum" disorder.
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What is misconception?
Truth or Misconception: People with ADHD have difficulty being successful in life.
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What is pushing the blood out of the heart and into the Aorta?
This is the primary role of the left ventricle.
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What is behavioural(psychological) versus effects on specific organs(physiological)? Also see signs(seen) vs symptoms(felt).
This is how psychological and physiological signs of stress differ.
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These are some common signs and symptoms of PTSD.
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What is Schizophrenia?
This disorder falls in the category of "mania" conditions.
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What is truth?
Truth or Misconception: Psychopaths can live normal, average lives.
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What is the skeletal system or bones?
This is the part of the body that you think about when using the prefix osteo-.
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What is how people perceive or view stress as a good or a bad thing?
This aspect of how people handle stress is more important, according to recent research, in determining how much of an effect stress has on length of life than amount of stress.
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What is to feel ostracized or singled out for perceived weakness?
This is what the term "stigma" means in relation to first responders and PTSD.
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What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This condition is characterized by having difficulty regulating thoughts and emotion, impulsive or reckless behavior, and unstable relationships.
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What is truth?
Truth or Misconception: Treatment can lessen the effects of psychopathy.
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What is the Islets of Lagerhans?
This area of the pancreas is responsible for producing insulin.
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What is, increased heart rate and blood pressure. dilated pupils,increased adrenaline.
These are three measurable effects of the fight or flight response in stress.
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