A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Achluophobia - a fear of darkness.
Acrophobia - a fear of heights.
Acute Stress Disorder - a psychological condition arising in response to a terrifying event.
Addiction - a state in which the body relies on a substance for normal functioning.
Adjustment Disorder - a classification of mental disorder that is a psychological response.
Agoraphobia - a fear of a place/event where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
Aichmophobia - a fear of needles or injections.
Ailurophobia - a fear of cats
Alcoholism - a condition that results in the continued consumption of Alcoholic beverages.
Algophobia - a fear of pain.
Altophobia - a fear of heights
Amnesia - a condition in which memory is disturbed
Anger - general information covering Anger management.
Anorexia Nervosa - a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder.
Anorgasmia - a form of sexual dysfunction.
Anthropophobia - a fear of people or being in a company.
Antisocial Personality Disorder - a pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others.
Anxiety Disorder - a nervous system disorder, irrational or illogical worry not based on fact.
Apiphobia - a fear of bees.
Aquaphobia - a fear of water.
Arachnophobia - a fear of spiders
Asperger's Syndrome - a difficulty in social interaction.
Astraphobia - a fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
Astrapophobia - a fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - a neurobehavioral developmental disorder.
Autism - a brain development disorder that impairs social interaction and communication.
Autophobia - a fear of being alone.
Aviophobia - a fear of flying.
Aviatophobia - a fear of flying.
Avoidant Personality Disorder - a personality disorder characterized by social inhibition.
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B
Bacillophobia - a fear of microbes and bacteria.
Bacteriophobia - a fear of microbes and bacteria.
Belonephobia - a fear of needles or injections.
Bereavement - an emotional, physical, behavioral, social, and philosophical response to loss.
Bibliomania - an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder involving the collecting or hoarding of books.
Binge Eating Disorder - psychiatric disorder in which a subject eats in excess.
Bipolar Disorder - a category of Mood Disorders.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder - a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
Borderline Personality Disorder -a long-term disturbance of personality function.
Brontophobia - a fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
Bulimia Nervosa -an eating disorder characterized by recurrent binge eating.
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C
Cainophobia - fear of newness, novelty.
Cainotophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Cancer - general information covering most types of Cancer.
Cenophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Centophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Chiroptophobia - a fear of bats
Cibophobia - a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder.
Claustrophobia - a fear of confined spaces.
Coitophobia - a fear of sexual intercourse.
Coprolalia - an involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words
Coulrophobia - a fear of clowns.
Cynophobia - a fear of dogs
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D
Delirium - an acute and relatively sudden decline in attention-focus.
Delusional Disorder - a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a psychotic mental illness.
Dementia - a decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain.
Dental Phobia - a fear of dentists and dental procedures.
Dentophobia - a fear of dentists and dental procedures.
Dependent Personality Disorder - a pervasive psychological dependence on other people.
Depersonalization Disorder - a Dissociative Disorder.
Depression - a psychiatric disorder characterized by a pervasive low mood.
Disorder Of Written Expression - a childhood condition characterized by poor writing skills.
Dissocial Personality Disorder - an incapacity to maintain enduring relationships.
Dissociative Amnesia - a disorder characterized by abnormal memory functioning.
Dissociative Disorder - a condition that involves disruptions or breakdowns of memory.
Dissociative Fugue - a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity.
Dissociative Identity Disorder - a condition in which a person displays multiple identities.
Dysmorphophobia - a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
Dyspareunia - a medical or psychological issue causing painful sexual intercourse.
Dysthymic Disorder - a Mood Disorder characterized by an irritable mood.
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Echolalia - an issue causing repetition of vocalizations made by another person.
Echopraxia - an involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another.
Emetophobia - a fear of vomiting.
Emotional Disorder - a broad category which is used commonly in educational psychology.
Encopresis - an issue causing children to often leak stool into their underwear.
Enetophobia - a fear of needles or injections.
Entomophobia - a fear of insects.
Enuresis - an involuntary leakage of urine.
Epilepsy - common chronic neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent seizures.
Equinophobia - a fear of horses.
Ergasiophobia - a fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
Ergophobia - a fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
Erotophobia - a fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
Erythrophobia - an issue causing pathological blushing.
Exhibitionism - psychological pattern of behavior involving the exposure of parts of the body.
Expressive Language Disorder - a limited vocabulary and grasp of grammar.
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F
Factitious Disorder - a condition in which a person acts as if he or she has an illness.
Female Sexual Arousal Disorder - a condition of decreased lubrication in females.
Fetishism - an attribution of inherent value or powers to an object.
Folie � Deux -a symptom of Psychosis is transmitted from one to another
Friggatriskaidekaphobia - a fear of Friday the thirteenth.
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G
Ganser Syndrome - an individual mimicking behavior they think is typical of a Psychosis.
Gender Identity Disorder - an issue where a person identifies as belonging to another gender.
General Adaptation Syndrome - a failure to adapt to change.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder - an excessive and often irrational worry about everyday things.
Genophobia - a fear of sexual intercourse.
Gephyrophobia - a fear of bridges.
Glossophobia - a fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Gymnophobia - a fear of nudity.
Gynophobia - a fear of women.
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H
Haemophobia - a fear of blood.
Haptephobia - a fear of being touched.
Heliophobia - a fear of sunlight.
Hemophobia - a fear of blood.
Herpetophobia - a fear of reptiles
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - a fear of the number six hundred and sixty six.
Hippophobia - a fear of horses.
Histrionic Personality Disorder - a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking.
Hoplophobia - a fear of weapons, specifically firearms.
Huntington's - a genetic neurological disorder characterized by abnormal body movements.
Hydrophobia - a fear of water.
Hyperactivity Disorder - a neurobehavioral developmental disorder.
Hyperkinetic Syndrome - a neurobehavioral developmental disorder.
Hypersomnia - an excessive daytime sleepiness or prolonged nighttime sleep.
Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder - low level of sexual desire.
Hypochondriasis - an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness.
Hysteria - a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses.
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I
Ichthyophobia - a fear of fish.
Impulse Control Disorder - a set of psychiatric disorders.
Insomnia - a sleeping disorder characterized by persistent difficulty sleeping.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder - a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme Anger.
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J
Joubert Syndrome - a an absence or underdevelopment of the cerebellar vermis.
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K
Kainolophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Kainophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Keraunophobia - a fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
Kleptomania - an inability or great difficulty in resisting impulses of stealing.
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L
Learning Disorders - a group of disorders that affect a broad range of academic/functional skills.
Ligyrophobia - a fear of loud noises.
Lygophobia - a fear of darkness.
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M
Male Erectile Disorder - an inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis.
Mania - a severe medical condition characterized by extremely elevated mood.
Mathematics Disorder - an inability to perform arithmetic operations.
Melissophobia - a fear of bees.
Microbiophobia - a fear of microbes and bacteria.
Mood Disorder - a condition whereby the prevailing emotional mood is distorted or inappropriate.
Munchausen's Syndrome - a psychiatric disorder in which those affected fake disease.
Musophobia - a fear of mice and/or rats.
Mysophobia - a fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
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N
Narcissistic Personality Disorder - a need for admiration, and a lack of empathy.
Narcolepsy - a neurological condition most characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness.
Necrophobia - a fear of death, the dead.
Neophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Nervous Bladder - a urinary bladder condition in which there is a need to urinate frequently.
Neurosis - a term that refers to any mental imbalance that causes distress.
Neuroticism - an enduring tendency to experience negative emotional states.
Nightmare Disorder - a Sleep Disorder characterized by frequent nightmares.
Nomophobia - a fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
Nosophobia - a fear of contracting a disease
Nyctophobia - a fear of darkness.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - a subject's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts.
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) - a general psychological inflexibility.
Odontophobia - a fear of dentists and dental procedures.
Olfactophobia - a fear of smells.
Oneirophrenia - a hallucinatory, dream-like state.
Ophidiophobia - a fear of snakes.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder - an ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior.
Ornithophobia - a fear of birds.
Osmophobia - a fear of smells.
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P
Pain Disorder - a person experiences chronic pain in one or more areas.
Panic Attacks - a sudden onset of intense anxiety.
Panic Disorder - a psychiatric condition characterized by recurring Panic Attacks.
Panphobia - a fear of everything or constantly afraid without knowing what is causing it.
Paranoid Personality Disorder - a pervasive and long-standing suspiciousness.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia - a fear of Friday the thirteenth.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia - a fear of Friday the thirteenth.
Parasomnia - a wide variety of disorders that revolve around sleep.
Parenting - general information for parents young and old, couples and single parents.
Pathological Gambling - an urge to gamble despite negative consequences or a desire to stop.
Pervasive Developmental Disorder - a delay in functions of socialization & communication.
Phobia - an irrational, intense, persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, or persons.
Phonophobia - a fear of loud noises.
Photophobia - a hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light.
Pica - a medical disorder characterized by an appetite for largely non-nutritive substances.
Postpartum Depression - a form of clinical Depression which can affect persons after childbirth.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - a disorder that can develop after exposure to terrifying events.
Premature Ejaculation - a lack of ejaculatory control.
Psychoneurosis - a term that refers to any mental imbalance that causes distress.
Psychosis - a loss of contact with reality.
Pyromania - an impulse to deliberately start fires.
Pyrophobia - a fear of fire.
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R
Radiophobia - a fear of radioactivity or X-rays.
Ranidaphobia - a fear of frogs or toads.
Retts Disorder - a neurodevelopmental disorder.
Rumination Disorder - an eating disorder in which the sufferer brings up partially digested food.
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Schizoaffective Disorder - a psychiatric diagnosis of a neurobiological illness.
Schizoid Personality Disorder - a lack of interest in social relationships.
Schizophrenia - a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness.
Schizophreniform Disorder - an advanced form of Schizophrenia.
Schizothymia - a temperament related to Schizophrenia.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder - a need for social isolation.
Scotophobia - a fear of darkness.
Seasonal Affective Disorder - an experience of depressive symptoms in the winter.
Self Harm - a spectrum of behaviours where demonstrable injury is self-inflicted.
Separation Anxiety Disorder - an excessive Anxiety regarding separation.
Shared Psychotic Disorder - a symptom of Psychosis is transmitted from one to another.
Sitophobia - a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder.
Sleep Disorder - a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person.
Sleep Paralysis - a paralysis of skeletal muscles that occurs upon awakening.
Sleep Terror Disorder - an extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness.
Sleepwalking Disorder - a sufferer engages in physical activities while he or she is asleep.
Social Anxiety - a fear of people.
Social Phobia - an advanced form of Social Anxiety.
Sociophobia - a fear of people.
Somatization Disorder - a psychological conflict is unconsciously expressed as physical signs.
Specific Developmental Disorder - a category which describes disorders affecting coordination.
Stereotypic Movement Disorder - a disorder of childhood involving nonfunctional motor behavior.
Stress - general information on stress.
Substance Abuse - a dependence on a drug or other chemical.
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T
Taphophobia - a fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
Technophobia - a fear of technology.
Terdekaphobia - a fear of the number thirteen.
Tetraphobia - a fear of the number four.
Tic Disorder - a category which describes disorders causing involuntary movements or speech..
Tokophobia - a fear of childbirth.
Tourette Syndrome - an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder causing physical and vocal tics.
Trichotillomania - a repeated urge to pull out hair.
Triskaidekaphobia - a fear of the number thirteen.
Trypanophobia - a fear of needles or injections.
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V
Vaginismus - a woman's inability to engage in any form of vaginal penetration.
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Z
Zoophobia - a generic term for animal phobias
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A
Achluophobia - a fear of darkness.
Acrophobia - a fear of heights.
Acute Stress Disorder - a psychological condition arising in response to a terrifying event.
Addiction - a state in which the body relies on a substance for normal functioning.
Adjustment Disorder - a classification of mental disorder that is a psychological response.
Agoraphobia - a fear of a place/event where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
Aichmophobia - a fear of needles or injections.
Ailurophobia - a fear of cats
Alcoholism - a condition that results in the continued consumption of Alcoholic beverages.
Algophobia - a fear of pain.
Altophobia - a fear of heights
Amnesia - a condition in which memory is disturbed
Anger - general information covering Anger management.
Anorexia Nervosa - a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder.
Anorgasmia - a form of sexual dysfunction.
Anthropophobia - a fear of people or being in a company.
Antisocial Personality Disorder - a pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others.
Anxiety Disorder - a nervous system disorder, irrational or illogical worry not based on fact.
Apiphobia - a fear of bees.
Aquaphobia - a fear of water.
Arachnophobia - a fear of spiders
Asperger's Syndrome - a difficulty in social interaction.
Astraphobia - a fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
Astrapophobia - a fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - a neurobehavioral developmental disorder.
Autism - a brain development disorder that impairs social interaction and communication.
Autophobia - a fear of being alone.
Aviophobia - a fear of flying.
Aviatophobia - a fear of flying.
Avoidant Personality Disorder - a personality disorder characterized by social inhibition.
B
Bacillophobia - a fear of microbes and bacteria.
Bacteriophobia - a fear of microbes and bacteria.
Belonephobia - a fear of needles or injections.
Bereavement - an emotional, physical, behavioral, social, and philosophical response to loss.
Bibliomania - an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder involving the collecting or hoarding of books.
Binge Eating Disorder - psychiatric disorder in which a subject eats in excess.
Bipolar Disorder - a category of Mood Disorders.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder - a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
Borderline Personality Disorder -a long-term disturbance of personality function.
Brontophobia - a fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
Bulimia Nervosa -an eating disorder characterized by recurrent binge eating.
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C
Cainophobia - fear of newness, novelty.
Cainotophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Cancer - general information covering most types of Cancer.
Cenophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Centophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Chiroptophobia - a fear of bats
Cibophobia - a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder.
Claustrophobia - a fear of confined spaces.
Coitophobia - a fear of sexual intercourse.
Coprolalia - an involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words
Coulrophobia - a fear of clowns.
Cynophobia - a fear of dogs
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D
Delirium - an acute and relatively sudden decline in attention-focus.
Delusional Disorder - a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a psychotic mental illness.
Dementia - a decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain.
Dental Phobia - a fear of dentists and dental procedures.
Dentophobia - a fear of dentists and dental procedures.
Dependent Personality Disorder - a pervasive psychological dependence on other people.
Depersonalization Disorder - a Dissociative Disorder.
Depression - a psychiatric disorder characterized by a pervasive low mood.
Disorder Of Written Expression - a childhood condition characterized by poor writing skills.
Dissocial Personality Disorder - an incapacity to maintain enduring relationships.
Dissociative Amnesia - a disorder characterized by abnormal memory functioning.
Dissociative Disorder - a condition that involves disruptions or breakdowns of memory.
Dissociative Fugue - a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity.
Dissociative Identity Disorder - a condition in which a person displays multiple identities.
Dysmorphophobia - a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
Dyspareunia - a medical or psychological issue causing painful sexual intercourse.
Dysthymic Disorder - a Mood Disorder characterized by an irritable mood.
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E
Echolalia - an issue causing repetition of vocalizations made by another person.
Echopraxia - an involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another.
Emetophobia - a fear of vomiting.
Emotional Disorder - a broad category which is used commonly in educational psychology.
Encopresis - an issue causing children to often leak stool into their underwear.
Enetophobia - a fear of needles or injections.
Entomophobia - a fear of insects.
Enuresis - an involuntary leakage of urine.
Epilepsy - common chronic neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent seizures.
Equinophobia - a fear of horses.
Ergasiophobia - a fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
Ergophobia - a fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
Erotophobia - a fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
Erythrophobia - an issue causing pathological blushing.
Exhibitionism - psychological pattern of behavior involving the exposure of parts of the body.
Expressive Language Disorder - a limited vocabulary and grasp of grammar.
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F
Factitious Disorder - a condition in which a person acts as if he or she has an illness.
Female Sexual Arousal Disorder - a condition of decreased lubrication in females.
Fetishism - an attribution of inherent value or powers to an object.
Folie � Deux -a symptom of Psychosis is transmitted from one to another
Friggatriskaidekaphobia - a fear of Friday the thirteenth.
G
Ganser Syndrome - an individual mimicking behavior they think is typical of a Psychosis.
Gender Identity Disorder - an issue where a person identifies as belonging to another gender.
General Adaptation Syndrome - a failure to adapt to change.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder - an excessive and often irrational worry about everyday things.
Genophobia - a fear of sexual intercourse.
Gephyrophobia - a fear of bridges.
Glossophobia - a fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Gymnophobia - a fear of nudity.
Gynophobia - a fear of women.
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H
Haemophobia - a fear of blood.
Haptephobia - a fear of being touched.
Heliophobia - a fear of sunlight.
Hemophobia - a fear of blood.
Herpetophobia - a fear of reptiles
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - a fear of the number six hundred and sixty six.
Hippophobia - a fear of horses.
Histrionic Personality Disorder - a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking.
Hoplophobia - a fear of weapons, specifically firearms.
Huntington's - a genetic neurological disorder characterized by abnormal body movements.
Hydrophobia - a fear of water.
Hyperactivity Disorder - a neurobehavioral developmental disorder.
Hyperkinetic Syndrome - a neurobehavioral developmental disorder.
Hypersomnia - an excessive daytime sleepiness or prolonged nighttime sleep.
Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder - low level of sexual desire.
Hypochondriasis - an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness.
Hysteria - a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses.
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I
Ichthyophobia - a fear of fish.
Impulse Control Disorder - a set of psychiatric disorders.
Insomnia - a sleeping disorder characterized by persistent difficulty sleeping.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder - a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme Anger.
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J
Joubert Syndrome - a an absence or underdevelopment of the cerebellar vermis.
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K
Kainolophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Kainophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Keraunophobia - a fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
Kleptomania - an inability or great difficulty in resisting impulses of stealing.
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L
Learning Disorders - a group of disorders that affect a broad range of academic/functional skills.
Ligyrophobia - a fear of loud noises.
Lygophobia - a fear of darkness.
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M
Male Erectile Disorder - an inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis.
Mania - a severe medical condition characterized by extremely elevated mood.
Mathematics Disorder - an inability to perform arithmetic operations.
Melissophobia - a fear of bees.
Microbiophobia - a fear of microbes and bacteria.
Mood Disorder - a condition whereby the prevailing emotional mood is distorted or inappropriate.
Munchausen's Syndrome - a psychiatric disorder in which those affected fake disease.
Musophobia - a fear of mice and/or rats.
Mysophobia - a fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
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N
Narcissistic Personality Disorder - a need for admiration, and a lack of empathy.
Narcolepsy - a neurological condition most characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness.
Necrophobia - a fear of death, the dead.
Neophobia - a fear of newness, novelty.
Nervous Bladder - a urinary bladder condition in which there is a need to urinate frequently.
Neurosis - a term that refers to any mental imbalance that causes distress.
Neuroticism - an enduring tendency to experience negative emotional states.
Nightmare Disorder - a Sleep Disorder characterized by frequent nightmares.
Nomophobia - a fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
Nosophobia - a fear of contracting a disease
Nyctophobia - a fear of darkness.
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O
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - a subject's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts.
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) - a general psychological inflexibility.
Odontophobia - a fear of dentists and dental procedures.
Olfactophobia - a fear of smells.
Oneirophrenia - a hallucinatory, dream-like state.
Ophidiophobia - a fear of snakes.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder - an ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior.
Ornithophobia - a fear of birds.
Osmophobia - a fear of smells.
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P
Pain Disorder - a person experiences chronic pain in one or more areas.
Panic Attacks - a sudden onset of intense anxiety.
Panic Disorder - a psychiatric condition characterized by recurring Panic Attacks.
Panphobia - a fear of everything or constantly afraid without knowing what is causing it.
Paranoid Personality Disorder - a pervasive and long-standing suspiciousness.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia - a fear of Friday the thirteenth.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia - a fear of Friday the thirteenth.
Parasomnia - a wide variety of disorders that revolve around sleep.
Parenting - general information for parents young and old, couples and single parents.
Pathological Gambling - an urge to gamble despite negative consequences or a desire to stop.
Pervasive Developmental Disorder - a delay in functions of socialization & communication.
Phobia - an irrational, intense, persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, or persons.
Phonophobia - a fear of loud noises.
Photophobia - a hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light.
Pica - a medical disorder characterized by an appetite for largely non-nutritive substances.
Postpartum Depression - a form of clinical Depression which can affect persons after childbirth.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - a disorder that can develop after exposure to terrifying events.
Premature Ejaculation - a lack of ejaculatory control.
Psychoneurosis - a term that refers to any mental imbalance that causes distress.
Psychosis - a loss of contact with reality.
Pyromania - an impulse to deliberately start fires.
Pyrophobia - a fear of fire.
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R
Radiophobia - a fear of radioactivity or X-rays.
Ranidaphobia - a fear of frogs or toads.
Retts Disorder - a neurodevelopmental disorder.
Rumination Disorder - an eating disorder in which the sufferer brings up partially digested food.
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S
Schizoaffective Disorder - a psychiatric diagnosis of a neurobiological illness.
Schizoid Personality Disorder - a lack of interest in social relationships.
Schizophrenia - a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness.
Schizophreniform Disorder - an advanced form of Schizophrenia.
Schizothymia - a temperament related to Schizophrenia.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder - a need for social isolation.
Scotophobia - a fear of darkness.
Seasonal Affective Disorder - an experience of depressive symptoms in the winter.
Self Harm - a spectrum of behaviours where demonstrable injury is self-inflicted.
Separation Anxiety Disorder - an excessive Anxiety regarding separation.
Shared Psychotic Disorder - a symptom of Psychosis is transmitted from one to another.
Sitophobia - a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder.
Sleep Disorder - a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person.
Sleep Paralysis - a paralysis of skeletal muscles that occurs upon awakening.
Sleep Terror Disorder - an extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness.
Sleepwalking Disorder - a sufferer engages in physical activities while he or she is asleep.
Social Anxiety - a fear of people.
Social Phobia - an advanced form of Social Anxiety.
Sociophobia - a fear of people.
Somatization Disorder - a psychological conflict is unconsciously expressed as physical signs.
Specific Developmental Disorder - a category which describes disorders affecting coordination.
Stereotypic Movement Disorder - a disorder of childhood involving nonfunctional motor behavior.
Stress - general information on stress.
Substance Abuse - a dependence on a drug or other chemical.
T
Taphophobia - a fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
Technophobia - a fear of technology.
Terdekaphobia - a fear of the number thirteen.
Tetraphobia - a fear of the number four.
Tic Disorder - a category which describes disorders causing involuntary movements or speech..
Tokophobia - a fear of childbirth.
Tourette Syndrome - an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder causing physical and vocal tics.
Trichotillomania - a repeated urge to pull out hair.
Triskaidekaphobia - a fear of the number thirteen.
Trypanophobia - a fear of needles or injections.
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V
Vaginismus - a woman's inability to engage in any form of vaginal penetration.
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Z
Zoophobia - a generic term for animal phobias
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