Luckily, I know this because I read The 6th Target by James Patterson.
Shizoaffective disorder is a state of paranoia. People hear voices in their head, controlling what they do. It's very disturbing. In the 6th Target, Alfred Brinkley killed the passerby on the ferry because, as he stated to the police, "The voices told me to do it." They may also believe that when the TV makes any noise, it is directed to them.
extreme highs and lows
An inflammatory disorder in which muscle tissue becomes inflamed and deteriorates, causing weakness and pain.
A mood disorder is a mental health condition characterized by persistent changes in mood, such as depression or mania. These mood changes can significantly impact a person's emotional state, energy levels, and daily functioning. Mood disorders include conditions like major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and cyclothymic disorder.
PDD is an acronym for pervasive developmental disability, which is a description of a type of developmental disorder. It means the same as autism spectrum disorder. It encompasses five conditions: autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Rett Syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, and PDD-Not Otherwise Specified. See the related question below "What are autism spectrum disorders?" for more details.
Drug addiction is a behavioral disorder and can be cured with therapy
Description of a nervous system disorders refers to a general class of medical conditions affecting the nervous system. Disorders of the nervous system include stroke, infections such as meningitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and functional disorders.
Dementia is a catch-all word for well, loss of the mental function, lit, out of the mind, De- Mentia. There are different types. Schizoaffective implies a sort of split personality and often violent mood shifts, secondary personalities ( i am not talking about the healthy kind manifested by writers and cartoonists doing different characters) they are both mental illnesses, but Dementia is vague, Schizoid is more specific.
This complex sentence is hard to diagram. A description of a mental disorder could be characterized as a complex sentence.
Wikipedia defines it as follows... Cystic fibrosis (CF), also known as mucoviscidosis, is a genetic disorder that affects mostly the lungs but also the pancreas, liver,kidneys, and intestine.
No, it is a behavioral disorder.
There are so many . . . I can think of bipolar disorder, depression, disassociation disorder, panic disorder, personality disorder, asocial disorder among the many.
yes it is a dissociative disorder. yes it is a dissociative disorder.