mental disorders
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Acute Stress Disorder - experiencing long term anxiety after witnessing a traumatic event, a person may become emotionless or lack the ability to enjoy life.
Adjustment Disorder - a life event (good or bad) changes your personality to change for a short period if time. This can lead to problems socialising, work, schooling or stress.
Alzheimer's Dementia - not being able to learn or recall information. This is also accompanied with any of the following list:
- problems speaking
- problems moving and functioning
- cannot recognise objects, smells, sounds, textures or tastes
- planning and organising skils are now difficult
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD - also known as ADD) - Trouble concentrating, not being able to sit still, interrupts others during conversations or acting impulsively without thinking things through.
ADHD is usually accompanied by:
- anxiety
- learning disabilities
- speech/hearing problems
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- tics
- behavioural problems (e.g Conduct Disorder CD)
B
Bereavement - the death of a loved one can cause extreme sadness, insomnia, weight loss and poor appetite.
Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression - severe mood swings consistent of extreme highs followed by extreme lows.
Episodes vary between:
- Major Depressive - tired, weight loss, agitation, fatigue, irritable and no interest. Thoughts of death are consistent too.
- Hypomanic Episode - Talkative, easily distracted, little self-esteem, no need to sleep and little worry for getting hurt.
- Manic Episode - draws attention to unimportant items, pressure to talk, little self-esteem, over-active brain.
- Mixed Episode - meets the criteria for manic and major episodes.
C
Cyclothymic Disorder (Clyclothmia) - feeling depressed for at least one year during childhood/teens and for at least one year in adulthood. This depression comes and goes.
D
Delusion - Believing an event to be true for longer than a month even though there is no proof, the event is plausible but not likely (e.g teacher is a secret agent)
Depression - feeling sad and upset for weeks on end. Energy and hope is lacking and a person can no longer find activities they used to like exciting.
Dysthymia - At least two years of depression, a person with this is usually irritable. A person will also display at least two of the following symptoms for at least two months:
- bad appetite (not eating enough or over eating)
- poor sleeping habits
- always feeling tired and never having energy
- low self-esteem or feeling hopeless
- finds it hard to make a decision and concentrating is hard
H
Hypochondriasis - fearing that you do have (or could have) a serious illness even if medical tests prove that you do not.
K
Kleptomania - constantly craving to steal items that have no personal or financial value.
P
Pain Disorder - being in constant pain that cannot be medically diagnosed or cured by any medicine.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - after witnessing or being involved in an upsetting event a person may be haunted by it.
Pyromania - being obsessed with fire, setting things on fire or feeling pleasure after creating a fire.
Acute Stress Disorder - experiencing long term anxiety after witnessing a traumatic event, a person may become emotionless or lack the ability to enjoy life.
Adjustment Disorder - a life event (good or bad) changes your personality to change for a short period if time. This can lead to problems socialising, work, schooling or stress.
Alzheimer's Dementia - not being able to learn or recall information. This is also accompanied with any of the following list:
- problems speaking
- problems moving and functioning
- cannot recognise objects, smells, sounds, textures or tastes
- planning and organising skils are now difficult
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD - also known as ADD) - Trouble concentrating, not being able to sit still, interrupts others during conversations or acting impulsively without thinking things through.
ADHD is usually accompanied by:
- anxiety
- learning disabilities
- speech/hearing problems
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- tics
- behavioural problems (e.g Conduct Disorder CD)
B
Bereavement - the death of a loved one can cause extreme sadness, insomnia, weight loss and poor appetite.
Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression - severe mood swings consistent of extreme highs followed by extreme lows.
Episodes vary between:
- Major Depressive - tired, weight loss, agitation, fatigue, irritable and no interest. Thoughts of death are consistent too.
- Hypomanic Episode - Talkative, easily distracted, little self-esteem, no need to sleep and little worry for getting hurt.
- Manic Episode - draws attention to unimportant items, pressure to talk, little self-esteem, over-active brain.
- Mixed Episode - meets the criteria for manic and major episodes.
C
Cyclothymic Disorder (Clyclothmia) - feeling depressed for at least one year during childhood/teens and for at least one year in adulthood. This depression comes and goes.
D
Delusion - Believing an event to be true for longer than a month even though there is no proof, the event is plausible but not likely (e.g teacher is a secret agent)
Depression - feeling sad and upset for weeks on end. Energy and hope is lacking and a person can no longer find activities they used to like exciting.
Dysthymia - At least two years of depression, a person with this is usually irritable. A person will also display at least two of the following symptoms for at least two months:
- bad appetite (not eating enough or over eating)
- poor sleeping habits
- always feeling tired and never having energy
- low self-esteem or feeling hopeless
- finds it hard to make a decision and concentrating is hard
H
Hypochondriasis - fearing that you do have (or could have) a serious illness even if medical tests prove that you do not.
K
Kleptomania - constantly craving to steal items that have no personal or financial value.
P
Pain Disorder - being in constant pain that cannot be medically diagnosed or cured by any medicine.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - after witnessing or being involved in an upsetting event a person may be haunted by it.
Pyromania - being obsessed with fire, setting things on fire or feeling pleasure after creating a fire.