#disorder
- To self-blame — To consider oneself guilty on one's own initiative; to unjustly or exaggeratedly attribute to oneself the responsibility for a failure, an error, an unfortunate event, or for the negative emotional state of those around. This destructive psychological mechanism involves excessive internal severity and an obsessive focusing of reproaches on one's own ego.
- Self-disagreeable — Causing displeasure, discomfort, or aversion toward oneself; perceiving oneself in an unpleasant, repulsive, or uncomfortable manner from an aesthetic, moral, or behavioral standpoint. It represents a structural state of rejecting one's own self-image or identity.
- Autoecholalia — A speech disorder manifested by the automatic, involuntary, and stereotyped repetition of one's own words or syllables immediately after pronouncing them; a clinical phenomenon often observed in autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, senile dementia, or various cortical neurological conditions.
- Automysophobia — A pathological, persistent, and unwarranted fear of becoming dirty or smelling bad; an individual's obsessive fear of contaminating their own body with dust, germs, or their own bodily secretions. In clinical psychology, this specific phobia is closely linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), driving the subject to execute rigid rituals of excessive washing, compulsive sanitizing, and social isolation due to intense distress over untidiness.
- Autoscopy — A hallucinatory or illusory psychological phenomenon in which a person perceives their own body from an external perspective or sees their own duplicated image projected into the surrounding space as a visual spectrum. This complex disturbance of the body schema and spatial perception is often associated with temporo-parietal lobe disorders, extreme exhaustion, anesthesia, or intense dissociative states.
- Auxopathic — Relating to or characterized by anomalies, disorders, or pathological dysfunctions of the body's physical growth and development process (such as dwarfism or gigantism); relating to morbid alterations of auxology.
- Auxopathy — A general term used in clinical practice to denote any medical disorder, abnormality, or pathological condition affecting the process of physical growth and somatic development in the human body, caused by genetic, endocrine, nutritional, or environmental factors.
- Avitaminosis — A serious pathological state caused by the total lack or profound and prolonged deficiency of one or more vitamins in the organism, stemming from an unbalanced diet, intestinal malabsorption, or metabolic disorders. This structural condition disrupts vital biochemical cellular functions, leading to the onset of specific well-defined diseases, such as scurvy, pellagra, rickets, or beriberi.
- Bacillophobia — A pathological, irrational, and persistent fear of bacilli, bacteria, or microbes in general, frequently associated with compulsive cleaning and disinfecting behavior. This anxiety disorder causes the affected individual to obsessively avoid contact with surfaces perceived as contaminated, manifesting as a specific and severe form of structural mysophobia where the fear is focused on microscopic pathogens.
- Bacteriophobia — A specific anxiety disorder characterized by an irrational, pathological, and persistent fear of bacteria, microbes, and contamination. Affected individuals manifest intense compulsive behaviors, such as excessive handwashing, repeated surface disinfection, and complete avoidance of public spaces, a phenomenon closely correlated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
- Shambles — A colloquial and slang term used to designate a state of total disorder, chaos, generalized confusion, noisy bustle, or shambles in a private or public space. Originally, the word described a wooden shack, a temporary shelter, or a wandering fair theater in the Eastern European space, later undergoing a structural semantic mutation through Yiddish and modern Hebrew toward the current sense of mess.