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Labelling individuals based on their impairments in cognitive or behavioral functioning can lead to stereotypes, stigma, and discrimination. It can also overlook the individual's strengths, potential, and unique qualities. It's important to focus on the person as a whole rather than defining them solely by their impairments.
physical presence, but emotionally detached
conversion disorder
These symptoms may indicate the presence of a mental health disorder such as schizophrenia, psychosis, or a mood disorder. It's important to consult with a mental health professional for a thorough evaluation and appropriate treatment, which may include therapy, medication, or a combination of both. Early intervention is key for better outcomes.
Mastocytosis is a disorder that is caused by the presence of too many mast cells and mast cell precursors in a person's body. The disorder can affect both adults and children.
No, toddlers cannot have split personalities. Split personality, now known as dissociative identity disorder, is a complex psychological disorder that typically develops later in childhood or during adulthood. It involves the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states within an individual.
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Key symptoms of dissociative identity disorder include experiencing multiple distinct identities or personality states, significant memory gaps for personal information, recurrent gaps in recall of everyday events, consistent sense of detachment from oneself, and experiencing detachment from emotions or behaviors.
Delusional disorder ( delusional thinking) is characterized by the presence of recurrent, persistent non-bizarre delusions.
Two examples of somatoform disorder would be hypochondriasis and conversion disorder. Hypochondriasis is a preoccupation with fears about a real physical problem but that fear exaggerates the severity of the illness. Conversion disorder is a presence of a motor of sensory symptom with no medical reason.
Dissociative identity disorder is primarily characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personalities which the person does not remember. Treatment options include intensive psychotherapy, medications, and hypnotherapy.
Psychological Disorders are found in the DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Text Revised 4) and categorize many psychological health issues that have been specified as such. They are the presence of an abnormal "body" that has to cause distress, impairment in relationships, social life, and occupation. It is very broad to just say psychological disorder as there are many forms. They originate from the mental health of the individual, where their cognition, behaviour, beliefs are thought to stray from the standard deviation of the population. Although they originate in the mind, there are several psychological disorders that manifest and have physical symptoms. An example would be Eating Disorders. They originate from a warped sense of self and body-image, their constant need and desire to lose weight, feelings of inadequacy cause them to have periods of starvation, abnormal behaviour with food, and those will produce physical symptoms of weight loss, anemia, low BP, lugano, tacychardia, etc. Psychological disoders affect about 40% of the North American population at least once in their lifetimes. Depression, Anxiety are among the most common psychological disorders.