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OF mental health care and mentally ill
May, 2020
mental health in children and adolescents
mental health in Childhood and Adolescent Mental Illness The US Surgeon General reports that about 5 million children and adolescents in the United States have a serious mental illness. A serious mental illness is a diagnosable mental disorder that impairs the child’s daily life. A challenge the practitioner faces is to differentiate between normal growth […]
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Physiologic Basis of Mental Illness
Physiologic Basis of Mental Illness Mental health is a continuum that begins with structure and function of the brain at the physical level. Next is the personal level where each of us cares about ourselves; this leads to the interpersonal level where we interact with others. The continuum ends at the societal level where we […]
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sexual disorders in psychology
sexual disorders in psychology. A sexual disorder means that a person is having an ongoing abnormal sexual experience. The abnormal sexual experience becomes a sexual disorder if the experience is causing distress in the person’s life, resulting in disruption of relationships with family and friends or employment or legal issues. There are three areas of […]
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What are the signs of a sleeping disorder?
What are the signs of a sleeping disorder? Sleep is an absence of consciousness, inactivity of voluntary muscles, and absence of sensory activities that occurs for approximately 8 hours each day. The ability of a person to react to stimuli is diminished but not totally absent, enabling the person to be aroused. Brain activity, breathing, […]
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What would you like to know about eating disorder?
An eating disorder is a psychiatric disorder that can lead to medical complications, which can result in death. The underlying cause of an eating disorder is the misperception by a patient of their body image; that is, the patient perceives themself to be too fat based on their understanding of normal weight for their age […]
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substance abuse words and definitions
Substance abuse words and definitions. Substance abuse occurs when a person continues to use a substance knowing that the substance will have an adverse effect on their health and activities of daily living. For example, a person may use the substance to “relax” on Friday and Saturday and then abstains on Sunday with the hope […]
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all about mood disorders and what causes it
A mood is a temporary feeling generally described as positive or negative, commonly referred to as a good or bad mood. The origin of a mood is vague. A person cannot explain why they are in a good or bad mood. Good moods are associated with less stress, such as when a task is completed […]
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ways to mitigate symptoms of personality disorders
Personality is a pattern of feelings, behaviors, and thinking that defines the way a person is perceived. Personality develops during childhood and remains stable during adulthood. All of us have these traits. For example, you may cut in line at the checkout counter or pretend to be sick to avoid going to a family gathering. […]
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schizophrenia is most characterized by
Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by a patient’s abnormal misinterpretation of reality, referred to as psychosis. The patient’s behavior seems bizarre to others because the behavior is inappropriate to reality. However, the behavior is appropriate to the patient based on their misperception of reality. For example, all of us become paranoid when walking down […]
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Characteristics and harmfulness of emotional disorders
Characteristics and harmfulness of emotional disorders Although for many years depression was considered a problem that afflicted only adults, in the last 30 years there has been increasing recognition that this disorder can and does occur in children, particularly in adolescents. Fifty years ago, its mean age of onset was near 30, but now it […]
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