yes it can. in general add will make the person with it feel different than their peers.
this can over time create anxiety driven by the fact that something is wrong with you.
this anxiety can make a person feel out of control, or detatched from others and make you feel like your going insane or our out of touch with reality.
the real issue is the anxiety caused by the stress of add, and no you are not going insane. people who actually go insane are the last ones to know. so if you think your going insane your ok.
With a great mental insanity.
OCD cannot be classified as insanity. It IS a mental problem but not as severe as schizophrenia for example.
Yes, insanity is a legal term meaning "unable to tell right from wrong", mental disorder is a medical term referring to a large class of different illnesses.
The legal insanity will look at if the person was aware of what they were doing in the crime. Mental illness can encompass many other issues outside of committing a crime.
When a person has negative feelings, having a good attitude will help deal with it. If the attitude is negative it will just feed into the feelings instead of help.
Forbes Benignus Winslow has written: 'On the preservation of the health of body and mind' 'On the incubation of insanity' 'Lettsomian lectures on insanity' -- subject(s): Mental illness, Jurisprudence, Insanity
1. Talking to yourself 2. Answering yourself 3. Having hairs on your palms 4. Looking for them These are the real signs of insanity
David W. Heron has written: 'A first study of the statistics of insanity and the inheritance of the insane diathesis' -- subject(s): Human Heredity, Insanity, Mental illness, Insanity (Law)
The insanity defense is alright as long as it is not used in just any case situation involving a murder. An insanity defense may allow a defendant who is mentally competent and has no history of mental illness to fake a specific mental disorder like Dissociative Identity Disorder (like in a Law & Order SVU episode titled "Alternate") and use it as a way to plead "not guilty by reason of insanity."
Your mental health (or mental illness) is not a matter of public record unless you have been charged with a crime and have pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
I believe they are the same thing, except for political correctness. The wording was changed from "insanity" to "mental defect or disease." I imagine it was an effort to treat inmates with mental illness with more dignity as well as to reduce the stigmas associated with the "insane."
E. C. Spitzka has written: 'Insanity' -- subject(s): Mental illness, Mental Disorders