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  2. Borderline personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    One paper identified possible reasons for manipulation in BPD: identifying others' feelings and reactions, a regulatory function due to insecurity, communicating one's emotions and connecting to others, or to feel as if one is in control, or allowing them to be "liberated" from relationships or commitments.

  3. Trauma model of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    The trauma model of mental disorders, or trauma model of psychopathology, emphasises the effects of physical, sexual and psychological trauma as key causal factors in the development of psychiatric disorders, including depression and anxiety [1] as well as psychosis, [2] whether the trauma is experienced in childhood or adulthood.

  4. Emotional detachment - Wikipedia

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    Despair by Edvard Munch (1894) captures emotional detachment seen in Borderline Personality Disorder. [1] [2]In psychology, emotional detachment, also known as emotional blunting, is a condition or state in which a person lacks emotional connectivity to others, whether due to an unwanted circumstance or as a positive means to cope with anxiety.

  5. Personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    All distinct PDs have been merged into one: personality disorder , which can be coded as mild , moderate , severe , or severity unspecified . Severity is determined by the level of distress experienced and degree of impact on day to day activities which results from difficulties in fuctioning aspects of self, (i,e, identity and agency) and ...

  6. Causes of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    Any damage to the brain can cause a mental disorder. The brain is the control system for the nervous system and the rest of the body. Without it, the body cannot function properly. [71] Increased mood swings, insane behavior, and substance abuse disorders are traumatic brain injury (TBI) examples. Findings on the relationship between TBI ...

  7. Depersonalization-derealization disorder - Wikipedia

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    A diagnosis is made when the dissociation is persistent, interferes with the social or occupational functions of daily life, and/or causes marked distress in the patient. [ 3 ] While depersonalization-derealization disorder was once considered rare, lifetime experiences with it occur in about 1–2% of the general population.

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    Donny could also be trauma bonding with Martha, which occurs when a victim feels "increasingly worthless and ashamed due to the abuser’s actions" and "becomes dependent on their abuser to ...

  9. Psychological trauma - Wikipedia

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    Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events, such as bodily injury, sexual violence, or other threats to the life of the subject or their loved ones; indirect exposure, such as from watching television news, may be extremely distressing and can produce an involuntary and ...