The World Health Organization will remove "gender identity disorder" from its global manual of diagnoses -- a major win for transgender rights. The change was announced last summer, but a resolution to amend the health guidelines was officially
The Social Security Administration mentions BPD in its disabilities list of mental health disorders. How to Observe Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month Celebrate their strengths Encourage people with BPD to not hide but come out and talk about what they are going through. Celebrate their ...
What is the difference between NPD and BPD (borderline Personality Disorder), OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder), AsPD (Antisocial PD), and other mental health disorders?ANSWER The Pathological SolutionsWe are all narcissists at an early stage of our lives. As infants, we feel that we are the...
Definitions of all the conditions referred to, together with case vignette examples, are given in Box 1, Glossary of Mental Disorders. As this list shows, any aspect of the mind – emotion, belief, volition, etc. – may be disordered, and mental health practitioners, in assessing a patient...
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This particular disorder forms the bedrock of many attendant mental health disorders. The stressors include situations where fears and phobias might arise such as public speaking, competitive situations, making important decisions, testing, deadlines, meeting financial obligations, or being put on the sp...
For the first report, participants were asked whether they had seen a physician or other professional treatment provider for problems related to that diagnosis; for the second, whether they had received treatment for any mental health problems from a list of service providers, including a physician...
All parents (biological and non-biological), who did not yet participate in one of the initial cohort studies are asked to provide information on demographics and mental health status through an online questionnaire. Index-parents and co-parents (only biological parents) for whom DNA is not avail...
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There are no lab tests to confirm a mental disorder. Many professionals use the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, a list of 40 questions that measures things such as how much attention and power someone craves. Doctors also use the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manua...