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Addiction - An inability to do without something on the physical or psychological level, to the point where cravi... |
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Agoraphobia - Extreme anxiety attached to being in public or crowded places. By avoiding such places anxiety is r... |
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Alcoholism - The modern concept of alcoholism is that it is a disease which is curable. Individual tolerance to a... |
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Anxiety - Now and then almost everyone feels insecure, often with good reason; insecurity often prompts us to put... |
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Depression - A small word that describes a huge range of negative thoughts and feelings from sadness to utter hop... |
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Fright - An extreme reaction to a threatening event. Breathing rate speeds up, sometimes leading to hyperventilat... |
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Grief - A natural reaction to the loss of a person, animal, or object in whom or in which one has invested much l... |
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Hypochondria - Obsessive Anxiety about the workings of one's own body, buying lots of medicines and consulting on... |
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Hysteria - Symptoms brought on by severe swears, ranging from inability to control emotions normally to partial p... |
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Insecurity - Now and then almost everyone feels insecure, often with good reason; insecurity often prompts us to ... |
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Memory Loss - Brief loss of memory is not uncommon after drinking alcohol, or after a high Fever, an operation, a... |
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Mental Exhaustion - Also referred to as nervous exhaustion or nervous breakdown, a catchall term not used by psyc... |
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Phobia - A phobia is a more or less disabling fear attached to a specific object or situation which is, on the fa... |
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Sleep Problems - The purpose of sleep is not fully understood; certainly lack of sleep, especially of dreaming sl... |
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Stress - Notoriously difficult to define since similar events affect people differently; one person's 'enjoyable ... |
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