Common Mental Disorder

What is a Mental Disorder?

A mental disorder or illness is a condition whereas an individual suffers or experience a mental difficulty, mostly biological and hormonal, which manifest through the body and behaviour, either consciously or not because of physical, emotional, chemical, social and environmental factors that brought about the condition.

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The 7 Common Mental Disoders Anxiety disorder Mood disorder Psychotic disorder Eating disorder Impulse control and addiction disorder Personality disorder Dissociative disorder.

Anxiety Disorder

A condition where a person responds to certain objects or situation with fear and dread, as well as with physical signs of anxiety or panic, such as rapid heartbeat and sweating.

One example of anxiety disorder is Phobia, extreme fear of a certain object or scenario.

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Mood Disorder

Also called affective disorder, involves persistent feelings of sadness or periods of feeling overly happy, or fluctuations from extreme happiness to extreme sadness.

Example: Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect the person’s thoughts, behaviour, feelings and sense of well-being; then bi-polar is characterized by extreme mood swings.

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Psychotic Disorder

Distorted awareness and thinking. Two common types of symptoms are hallucinations (imaginary) and delusions (false fixed beliefs).

Example: Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally.

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Eating Disorder

Involves extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviours involving weight and food

Examples: Anorexia Nervosa is a complex eating disorder with 3 key features:

*refusal to maintain a healthy body weight*an intense fear of gaining weight*a distorted body image  Bulimia Nervosa is a serious psychiatric illness

in which the person regularly binge-eats and then tries to compensate for that behaviour by over-exercising, purging such as vomiting and using laxatives.

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Impulse Control and Addiction

Disorder

Inability to resist urges, or impulses to perform acts that could harm themselves and others.

Examples: Pyromania is the urge to start fire. Kleptomania is the urge to steal. Alchoholism and drug addiction are also good examples.

Personality Disorder

A long standing pattern of behaviour, thoughts and feeling that is highly maladaptive for the individual or for people around him.

Paranoid personality disorder is where a person believes that other people are chronologically trying to deceive them or to exploit them and are preoccupied with concerns about loyalty and trustworthiness of others.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is the pervasive rigidity in one’s activities and interpersonal relationships, including emotional constrictions, extreme perfectionism and anxiety about even minor disruptions in one’s routines

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Dissociative Disorder

A severe disturbance or changes in memory, consciousness, identity and general awareness of themselves and their surroundings.

It is usually associated with overwhelming stress, which may be the result of traumatic events, accidents or disaster that may be experienced or witnessed by the individual.

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Inability to resist urge, or impulse to perform acts that could harm themselves and others.

Severe disturbance or changes in memory, consciousness, identity and general awareness

of themselves and their surrounding

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Involves extreme emotions, attitudes, and

behaviours involving weight and food

Extreme Fear of certain objects and scenario

Distorted awareness and thinking.

Also called as Affective disorder, involves persistent feelings of sadness or periods of feeling overly happy, or fluctuations from extreme happiness to extreme sadness