Mental health conditions affect a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, or behavior. Just like medical diagnosis, there are specific mental health disorders too. For example, severe stressful events or trauma often lead to eating or personality disorders as a means of coping. Some conditions are short-term and happen only occasionally, while others are chronic and long-term disorders altering a person’s daily functioning.
Mental health and mental illness are not the same things. Mental health includes emotional, psychological, and social well-being and affects how we think, feel, and act. It helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. People use the terms interchangeably, but a person can experience poor mental health without being diagnosed with a mental illness. Likewise, a person with a mental illness can have periods of good mental health.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Behaviors Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a problem of not being able to focus (inattentiveness), being overactive (hyperactivity), not being able to control behavior (impulsivity), or a combination of these beyond the normal age-ability of the individual. It affects both children and adults and is on the increase. Treatment Treatment …
Schizophrenia Behaviors Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness, though not common, is well known due to its aggressive and bazaar exhibitions of behavior at times. A person with Schizophrenia feels unable to control their emotions or behaviors as if someone else has power over their body. To make matters worse, they often experience hallucinations and …
Conduct Disorders Primarily Affecting Children Conduct Disorder Behaviors Conduct disorders that primarily affect children fall under category one. One of those conditions is actually called Conduct Disorders. Children who demonstrate behaviors like the following that diagnosis. act aggressively toward other people or animals (i.e., bullying, threatening behaviors, violence, using weapons, animal cruelty, forced sexual …
Mental Health Problems Misunderstood by Public The public often misunderstands the nature of mental illness due to the lack of information shared on the subject by the psychiatric community. An individual with psychological “problems” lived on society’s fringe for decades and continues to do so today. They are an invisible group except for the caregivers …
Conduct Disorders As you might guess, “Conduct Disorders” are mental health conditions related to problem behaviors. There are three primary groups. Conduct and Oppositional Defiant Disorders Schizophrenia Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders including attention deficit disorders Two out of the three groups begin in childhood. The third appears in either child or adulthood. Group One …
Mood Related Disorders As the name suggests, people with Mood-Related Disorders have difficulty with emotions. The most common conditions known are Depression and Bipolar Disorder. Depression describes a broad range of conditions where the individual has negative, heavy feelings of loss and sadness, anxiety, emptiness, low self-esteem, and a bleak outlook on life. In contrast, …
Eating Disorders Can Be Fatal Though more common among women, eating disorders affect both sexes, often affecting multiple people in the same family. Therefore, research believes there may be a genetic component associated with it. Those who suffer from eating disorders have distorted body images leading to an obsession with weight loss. The methods used …
Anxiety Disorders You hear people saying that they have anxiety or that they are nervous. Does that mean they have an anxiety disorder? No way! The type of anxiety people who have anxiety disorders live with every day takes over their lives. It’s disabling. No matter where you go or what you do, there is …
Understanding Mental Health Disorders Mental Health Disorders Rising Each year: One in 24 people lives with a serious mental illness. In addition, we know of one in 12 people who admit to a diagnosis of a substance abuse disorder; however, many more may exist. Currently, Alzheimer’s Dementia affects one in 10 people. According to …
