Everyone is aloud to discuss here, if you have nothing good to post than please kindly leave. If you're here to call bullstuff on everyone than you should also leave.
For those here for a serious discussion, you're not alone with your problems. There are many people out there who are willing to help you out.
(Thank you Becquerel for this)
TYPES OF MENTAL ILLNESS
1. Anxiety Disorders. Response to certain stimulus with fear and dread, as well as physical symptoms such as a rapid heartbeat and profuse sweating. These conditions are diagnosed if the patients response is not appropriate to the current situation, if the response cannot be controlled, or if the disorder interferes with every day life. Examples are Generalized Anxiety Disorder, PTSD, Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and most phobias.
2. Mood Disorders. Mood Disorders (Also Called Affective Disorders) involve persistent feelings of sadness or periods of feeling overly happy, or switching between the 2. The most common disorders is Depression, Mania, and Bipolar Disorder
3. Psychotic Disorders. Psychotic Disorders involve distorted awareness and thinking. Two of the most common symptoms are Hallucinations (The experience of stimulus that is not real and cant be observed by others) and Delusions (False beliefs that the ill person accepts as true despite evidence to the contrary). The major diagnosis for Psychotic Disorders is Schizophrenia
4. Eating Disorders involve extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviours involving weight and food. Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa and binge eating disorder are the most common disorders.
5. Impulse and Addiction disorders. People with Impulse and Addiction disorders are unable to resist urges, or impulses, to perform harmful acts that could injure ones self or others. For example, Pyromania, Kleptomania, and Compulsive gambling are examples of Impulse Disorders. Addiction involves the craving of an illicit substance such as Alcohol or other drugs. Most of the time, people with these disorders are so involved with the objects of their addiction that they begin to ignore responsibilities and relationships.
6. Personality Disorders. People with Personality Disorders have extreme and inflexible personality traits that are distressing to the person and/or cause problems in work, school, or social relationships. In addition, the persons patterns of thinking and behaviour significantly impair with normal functioning. The list of personality disorders include: Schizoid, Schizotypal, Paranoid, Borderline, Histrionic, Anti-social, Narcissistic, Dependent, Avoidant, and Obsessive Compulsive.
7. Adjustment Disorders. AD occurs when a person develops emotional and/or behavioural symptoms in response to stressful stimulus, such as an earthquake or tornado, divorce, death of a loved one, or a problem with substance addiction. AD Normally develops atleast within 3 months of exposure to negative stimulus, and normally stops once the stimulus stops or is terminated.
8. Dissociative Disorders. Peoople with these disorders suffer severe disturbances or changes in identity, memory, consciousness, and general awareness of themselves and their surroundings. These are normally associative with overwhelming stress which may be the result of traumatic events, accidents, or disasters that have been experienced or witnessed by the individual. 2 common Dissociative disorders are Dissociative Identity disorder and Depersonalization disorder.
9. Factitious Disorders. Factitious disorders are conditions in which physical and/or emotional symptoms are created and mimicked to place the individual in the role of a patient or a person in need of help on purpose.
10. loveual and Gender Disorders. These include disorders that affect loveual desire, performance, and behaviour. loveual Dysfunction, gender identity disorder, and the paraphilias are examples.
11. Somatoform Disorders. A person with a Somatoform disorder (Formerly Psychosomatic Disorder) experience physical symptoms of an illness even when a doctor can not find any medical cause for the symptoms.
12. Tic Disorders. People with Tic disorders make sounds or display body movements that are repeated, quick, sudden, and/or uncontrollable. *Sounds involuntarily made are called Vocal Tics* Tourette's Syndrome is a common example
PERSONALITY DISORDERS
I'm going to use the Millon Chart of Personality Disorders here
1. Paranoid
2. Schizoid
3. Schizotypal
4. Antisocial
5. Borderline
6. Histrionic
7. Narcissistic
8. Avoidant
9. Dependent
10. Obsessibe Compulsive
11. Depressive
12. Passive-Aggressive
13. Sadistic
14. Self-Defeating / Masochistic
PARANOID
Guarded, defensive, distrustful and suspiciousness. Hypervigilant to the motives of others to undermine or do harm. Always seeking confirmatory evidence of hidden schemes. Feels righteous, but persecuted.
SCHIZOID
Apathetic, indifferent, remote, solitary, distant, humorless. Neither desires nor needs human attachments. Withdrawal from relationships and prefer to be alone. Little interest in others, often seen as a loner. Minimal awareness of feelings of self or others. Few drives or ambitions, if any.
SCHIZOTYPAL
Eccentric, self-estranged, bizarre, absent. Exhibits peculiar mannerisms and behaviors. Thinks can read thoughts of others. Preoccupied with odd daydreams and beliefs. Blurs line between reality and fantasy. Magical thinking and strange beliefs.
ANTISOCIAL
Impulsive, irresponsible, deviant, unruly. Acts without due consideration. Meets social obligations only when self-serving. Disrespects societal customs, rules, and standards. Sees self as free and independent. Lacks empathy and is very Manipulative
BORDERLINE
Unpredictable, manipulative, unstable. Frantically fears abandonment and isolation. Experiences rapidly fluctuating moods. Shifts rapidly between loving and hating. Sees self and others alternatively as all-good and all-bad. Unstable and frequently changing moods.
HISTRIONIC
Dramatic, seductive, shallow, stimulus-seeking, vain. Overreacts to minor events. Exhibitionistic as a means of securing attention and favors. Sees self as attractive and charming. Constant seeking for others' attention.
NARCISSISTIC
Egotistical, arrogant, grandiose, insouciant. Preoccupied with fantasies of success, beauty, or achievement. Sees self as admirable and superior, and therefore entitled to special treatment.
AVOIDANT
Hesitant, self-conscious, embarrassed, anxious. Tense in social situations due to fear of rejection. Plagued by constant performance anxiety. Sees self as inept, inferior, or unappealing. Feels alone and empty.
DEPENDENT
Helpless, incompetent, submissive, immature. Withdraws from adult responsibilities. Sees self as weak or fragile. Seeks constant reassurance from stronger figures.
OBSESSIVE - COMPULSIVE
Restrained, conscientious, respectful, rigid. Maintains a rule-bound lifestyle. Adheres closely to social conventions. Sees the world in terms of regulations and hierarchies. Sees self as devoted, reliable, efficient, and productive.
DEPRESSIVE
Somber, discouraged, pessimistic, brooding, fatalistic. Presents self as vulnerable and abandoned. Feels valueless, guilty, and impotent. Judges self as worthy only of criticism and contempt.
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE
Resentful, contrary, skeptical, discontented. Resists fulfilling others’ expectations. Deliberately inefficient. Vents anger indirectly by undermining others’ goals. Alternately moody and irritable, then sullen and withdrawn.
SADISTIC
Explosively hostile, abrasive, cruel, dogmatic. Liable to sudden outbursts of rage. Feels selfsatisfied through dominating, intimidating and humiliating others. Is opinionated and close-minded.
SELF DEFEATING / MASOCHISTIC
Deferential, pleasure-phobic, servile, blameful, self-effacing. Encourages others to take advantage. Deliberately defeats own achievements. Seeks condemning or mistreatful partners.
It's okay to be mentally ill, it's not your fault. This is a positive environment to discuss your diagnoses and surround yourself with people who understand your situation.
Self diagnoses should be encouraged in a way that people should make themselves aware of certain symptoms instead of ignoring them and allowing things to escalate into problems. You shouldn't feel wrong for self-diagnosing mental illnesses so long as you recognize that you could be wrong, but if you've done your fair share of research, you have some credibility.
A website you can look at because I don't feel like acquiring more links at the moment:
http://www.nami.org/
This section of the thread is for people on the thread who are well known to consistently bombard the thread with hatred and unacceptance, I presonally recommend to avoid these people at all costs. The list is as follows:
- Nal
- mus
- Taboo
more to come, hopefully not though.
Just say what you want added to the poll. I'll get to it sooner or later.
I'll probably add stuff on neurological disorders later.
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