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A psychological disorder is a deviant, distressful, and dysfuntional behavior pattern acording to the book. If a person acts abnormally they dont necessarily have a psych disorder, they could just be a little dofferent than the rest of the people unless the abnormality affects there personal health and the health of others then they would have a disorder that people should be concerened about. In my family i have a cousin who is bipolar. Bipolar is when u have periods of depression and periods of manic states. My cousin however seems to be stuck on her manic state because she will stay up all hours of the night and will draw pictures because she is a good artist. When she is on her lows she will start to compalin about all the things that have gone wrong in her life and create a sob story to get attention. my cousin will make outrageous claims and think that certain things not at all possible will haoppen just for her. The most interseting thing that i have learned about is that people can be easily diagnosed with psych problems with only minor tell tale signs and that people who have an antisocial disorder can be very good talkers.