| A | B |
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| psychological disorder | A pattern of behavior or a mental process that causes serious personal suffering or interferes with a person's ability to cope with everyday life |
| culture-bound syndrome | clusters of symptoms that define or describe an illness in a perticular culture |
| anxiety | A psychological state characterized by tension and apprehension, foreboding, and dread |
| phobia | An excessive, irrational fear out of proportion to the actual danger |
| simple phobia | An anxiety disorder characterized |
| social phobia | An irrational fear of social situations in which one might be exposed to the close scrutiny of others |
| panic attack | An episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and other frightening sensations |
| agoraphobia | A fear of crowded, public places |
| obsession | A recurring thought or image that seems to be beyond control |
| compulsion | An apparently irresistible urge to repeat an act or engage in ritualistic behavior, such as hand washing |
| post-traumatic stress disorder | A disorder that follows a distressing event outside the range of normal human experience and is characterized by intense fear, avoidance of stimuli associated with the event, and reliving of the event |
