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1- Emotional instability .

Behavioral disorder .2-

3- Cognitive dysfunction .

There are almost 400 recognized & named mental disorders, including common ones such as:

depression, schizophrenia, hyperactivity, tourette syndrome

Obsessive compulsive disorder .

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work with the mentally ill in making assessments and diagnosis, planning care and helping patients regain or improve the skills they need to cope .

in the nurse work is Importanttherapeutic the

relationship .

A relation between the patient and therapist , which is based on

non-judgmental understanding and which provides the security to be able to speak with honesty.

medicine is rarely successful in treating mental illnesses, but can treat it with varying degrees of success.

medications - Psychotherapy -Lifestyle adjustments .

certain treatments (controversial) such as:

electroshock and lobotomy (surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes) .

treatments used:

Cold water, restraint, isolation (now considered barbaric and cruel) .