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What are the general characteristics of a mental disorder?

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The sheer number of mental disorders makes the answer to this question impossible to answer fully. The disorder's symptoms and eventual diagnoses depends on many factors, a few of which are: age, family history(such as mothers activities while pregnant), substance exposure/ inhalation, trauma in the near or far past etc... Some very common yet vague symptoms of a mental disorder are: slowness(in comprehension as well as in physical movement), physical features(often individual suffering from the same mental illness tend to have similar features), speech impairment, etc.

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