Thyroid diseases and mental illness together with behavioural disorders versus mental illness together with behavioural disorders and thyroid diseasesthyroid diseasesmental disordersbehavioural disordersHashimoto diseaseIntroduction.Numerous authors have undertaken research on the coexistence of mental health disorders...
The terms “mental disorder,”“mental illness,” and “psychopathology” are often used interchangeably by those in psychology and related fields; all refer to the study of unusual or abnormal behaviors. Unlike terms and concepts in many of the physical sciences, however, there is not a single...
There is an important difference between mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, where there is a clear binary categorization of having versus not having the disease; from other types of mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, or attention-deficit disorder, where the symptoms lie along a conti...
While stigma may not necessarily be a cause of a person’s mental disorder, it can certainly contribute to the complication and perpetuation of their illness. The effect of stigma goes well beyond just the patient and provides a commentary on society’s overall level of intolerance of those who...
“medical disorder.” Several standard analyses, such as that medical disorders always involve physical lesions, or medical disorders are simply undesirable bodily and mental conditions, do not explain our nuanced judgments about disorder versus nondisorder. The common argument that all mental disorders ...
This is why subjective distress is a core feature of the definition of an emotional disorder (e.g., in the DSM-5). From this perspective, self-report is the most direct measure of the patient’s problem and treatment efficacy. Thus, whether implicit or explicit, the subjective experience ...
It has been estimated that 26% of the adult population have a diagnosable mental disorder (Kessler et al, 2005), and the economic burden of serious mental illness yearly has been estimated at 193 billion dollars because of annual loss of earnings alone (Kessler et al, 2008). More effective...
By the 1800s, physicians were able to establish that mental illness was connected to a biological disorder and that it could be triggered by different stressors in the individual’s life. They were also able to determine that there was more than one type of mental illness. After this discove...
(2000) map well onto the mental illness classifications in the DSM-IV-R (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). For example, the disor- ders in the low warmth-low competence cluster e schizophrenia, "multiple personality" disorder, and addictions e are similar in that they represent Axis I ...
This cohort study describes mental disorder life histories across 4 decades among participants in the Dunedin Study.