MENTAL

DISORDER

Cretoiu Stefan
How does mental illness affect
people?
A mental disorder, also called a
mental illness or psychiatric disorder,
is a behavioral or mental pattern that
causes significant distress or
impairment of personal functioning.
Such features may be persistent,
relapsing and remitting, or occur as a
single episode. Many disorders have
been described, with signs and
symptoms that vary widely between
specific disorders.
 WHAT KIND OF MENTAL DISORDERS ARE
THERE?
• Anxiety • Eating disorders.
disorders, • Personality
including panic disorders.
disorder, • Post-traumatic
obsessive- stress disorder.
compulsive • Psychotic
disorder, and disorders,
phobias. including
• Depression, schizophrenia
bipolar disorder,
and other mood
disorders.
 Some disorders and how they affect us

Anxiety disorders Post-traumatic stress disorder

Anxiety is a worry about future It is a mental health condition that's
events, while fear is a reaction triggered by a terrifying
to current events. These event.Symptoms may include
feelings may cause physical flashbacks, nightmares and severe
symptoms, such as increased anxiety, as well as uncontrollable
heart rate and shakiness. thoughts about the event.

Depression Psychotic disorders

Depression is a common and Psychotic disorders are
serious medical illness that severe mental disorders that
negatively affects how you feel, cause abnormal thinking and
the way you think and how you perceptions. People with
act. psychoses lose touch with reality.
Two of the main symptoms are
delusions and hallucinations
 WHAT CAUSES MENTAL DISORDERS?

• Your genes and family history

• Your life experiences, such as stress
or a history of abuse, especially if
they happen in childhood
• Biological factors such as chemical
imbalances in the brain
• A traumatic brain injury
• A mother's exposure to viruses or
toxic chemicals while pregnant
• Use of alcohol or recreational drugs
• Having a serious medical condition
like cancer
• Having few friends, and feeling
lonely or isolated
Mental disorders in society
Different societies or cultures, even different
individuals in a subculture can disagree as to
what constitutes optimal versus pathological
biological and psychological functioning.
Clinical conceptions of mental illness also
overlap with personal and cultural values in the
domain of morality, so much so that it is
sometimes argued that separating the two is
impossible without fundamentally redefining
the essence of being a particular person in a
society.
ANIMAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Psychopathology in non-human primates has
been studied since the mid-20th century. Over 20
behavioral patterns in captive chimpanzees have
been documented as abnormal for frequency,
severity or oddness. Captive great apes show
gross behavioral abnormalities such as stereotypy
of movements, self-mutilation, disturbed
emotional reactions (mainly fear or aggression)
towards companions, lack of species-typical
communications, and generalized learned
helplessness.
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