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Symptoms Diagnosis Bipolar Disorder (Bipolar Symptoms)
People with bipolar disorder experience both depression and periods of mania. According to DSM-IV-TR, mania involves at least three of the following symptoms: inflated self-esteem or grandiosity decreased need for sleep more talkativeness than usual or pressure to keep talking flight of ideas or the experience that thoughts are racing distractibility increased activity or psychomotor […]
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Specific (isolated) phobias and diagnosis
These are circumscribed fears of specific objects or situations. Some community samples have shown an annual prevalence as high as 9% in the general population. Most phobias start in childhood, but situational phobias have a second peak of onset among people in their middle 20s. Particular types of phobias seem to aggregate in families, with […]
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