Mental Or Emotional Disorders

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1 in 5 adults will suffer from a mental or emotional health disorder at some point. To recognize people suffering from mental or emotional disorders, they must exhibit abnormal thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors. This may be a sudden change in personality, mood swings, lack of concentration, and sleep issues. If a person displays abnormal behaviors, but thinks otherwise, most likely he/she is suffering from a mental or emotional disorder. The causes of mental or emotional disorders are early childhood experiences, heredity, and current experiences. Inborn cause is when the child inherits the parent’s behaviors. Current experiences include bad habits or loss of a loved one. The treatment depends on the disorder. It varies from psychotherapy to hospitalization. To start, psychotherapy is when you talk to a professional and they try to figure out what triggered the disorder. A similar treatment is psychoanalysis. A professional is also involved, but there is no communication until the end. It has an …show more content…

The first type is anxiety disorders, which refer to panic disorders. Its examples include OCD and phobias. The second one is somatoform disorder. This is a form of mental illness that causes one or more bodily symptoms, including pain. The third kind is eating disorder, which includes anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating. Mood disorder is the fourth type of emotional disorders. Depression and bipolar disorder are examples of mood disorders. They are periods of extensive sadness and a sudden change in emotion respectively. The fifth type is personality disorder, such as being passive-aggressive and antisocial. Dissociative disorder is the sixth kind. This is when the person is separated from reality. Examples of dissociative disorders are amnesia and Alzheimer’s disease. Lastly, Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that distorts the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, and perceives

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