There are many different mental disorders, with different presentations. They are generally characterized by a combination of abnormal thoughts, perceptions, emotions, behaviour and relationships with others. Mental disorders include: depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other psychoses, dementia, and developmental disorders including autism. There are effective strategies for preventing mental disorders such as depression. There are effective treatments for mental disorders and ways to alleviate the suffering caused by them. Download this file to read more on the possible causes and prevention of mental disorders
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It's a good sign of social progress when health practitioners, as well as laypeople, begin to understand the nature of psychological illness. Having a name for a condition goes a long way toward generating understanding, but there's an interesting clip from the late physicist Richard Feynman who suggested that knowing the name of something does not automatically imply knowledge.
Feynman used the example of a bird I think with many different translations in different languages, but none of these told you very much about the thing itself. So while it's fantastic having names and recognising conditions, awareness of the symptoms and signs as well as understanding the humanity of the individual will push the frontiers of social progress even further.
Thanks for sharing, it is bewildering how many psychological illnesses there are as well as the neuropsychological diseases that arise due to an underlying pathology.