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Types of Mental Illness

There are many different conditions that are recognized as mental illnesses. The more common types include:

• Anxiety disorders: People with anxiety disorders respond to certain objects or situations with fear and dread, as well as with physical signs of anxiety or nervousness, such as a rapid heartbeat and sweating. An anxiety disorder is diagnosed if the person's response is not appropriate for the situation, if the person cannot control the response or if the anxiety interferes with normal functioning. Anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, social anxiety disorder andspecific phobias.
• Mood disorders: These disorders, also called affective disorders, involve persistent feelings of sadness or periods of feeling overly happy, or fluctuations from extreme happiness to extreme sadness. The most common mood disorders are depression, mania and bipolar disorder.
• Psychotic disorders: Psychotic disorders involve distorted awareness and thinking. Two of the most common symptoms of psychotic disorders are hallucinations -- the experience of images or sounds that are not real, such as hearing voices -- and delusions -- false beliefs that the ill person accepts as true, despite evidence to the contrary. Schizophrenia is an example of a psychotic disorder.
• Eating disorders: Eating disorders involve extreme emotions, attitudes and behaviors involving weight and food. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder are the most common eating disorders.
• Impulse control and addiction disorders: People with impulse control disorders are unable to resist urges, or impulses, to perform acts that could be harmful to themselves or others. Pyromania (starting fires), kleptomania (stealing) and compulsive gambling are examples of impulse control disorders. Alcohol and drugs are common objects of addictions. Often, people with these disorders become so involved with the objects of their addiction that they begin to ignore responsibilities and relationships.
• Personality disorders: People with personality disorders have extreme and inflexible personality traits that are distressing to the person and/or cause problems in work, school or social relationships. In addition, the person's patterns of thinking and behavior significantly differ from the expectations of society and are so rigid that they interfere with the person's normal functioning. Examples include antisocial personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and paranoid personality disorder.

Other, less common types of mental illnesses include:

• Adjustment disorder: Adjustment disorder occurs when a person develops emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to a stressful event or situation. The stressors may include natural disasters, such as an earthquake or tornado; events or crises, such as a car accident or the diagnosis of a major illness; or interpersonal problems, such as a divorce, death of a loved one, loss of a job or a problem with substance abuse. Adjustment disorder usually begins within three months of the event or situation and ends within six months after the stressor stops or is eliminated.
• Dissociative disorders: People with these disorders suffer severe disturbances or changes in memory, consciousness, identity, and general awareness of themselves and their surroundings. These disorders usually are associated with overwhelming stress, which may be the result of traumatic events, accidents or disasters that may be experienced or witnessed by the individual. Dissociative identity disorder, formerly called multiple personality disorder, or "split personality", and depersonalization disorder are examples of dissociative disorders.
• Factitious disorders: Factitious disorders are conditions in which physical and/or emotional symptoms are experienced in order to place the individual in the role of a patient or a person in need of help.
• Sexual and gender disorders: These include disorders that affect sexual desire, performance and behavior. Sexual dysfunction, gender identity disorder and the paraphilias are examples of sexual and gender disorders.
• Somatoform disorders: A person with a somatoform disorder, formerly known as psychosomatic disorder, experiences physical symptoms of an illness even though a doctor can find no medical cause for the symptoms.
• Tic disorders: People with tic disorders make sounds or display body movements that are repeated, quick, sudden and/or uncontrollable. (Sounds that are made involuntarily are called vocal tics.) Tourette syndrome is an example of a tic disorder. Other diseases or conditions, including various sleep-related problems and many forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, are sometimes classified as mental illnesses because they involve the brain.

Strange and Simple but TRUE

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• 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
  
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Courage

When a cook is cooking, the cook knows the importance of salt. Salt really makes a big difference. So if the cook decides to go, “Well, I know salt is going to make it taste good so let me add a handful, handful. Handful.” Then it won’t taste good.

In life, every day is a painting. And the painting isn’t about how much color you put on there. It is just the right amount in the right places that make that painting come alive. Just that pinch of salt at the right time, and the right dish, and it makes the flavors come alive.

The courage, the love, the admiration, the understanding - we all have. And we have the amount that is needed. Now what we have to learn is to paint properly with it.

Is anger all bad? Sometimes you can’t open that bottle, you get a little angry, you put a little extra bit in and the next thing you know, the top comes off.

There is that one story, I don’t know how true it is, but on one of the space modules, an air conditioner was broken so they were trying to fix it. And they couldn’t fix it up there, so they called down to the earth and said, “You know, this module is broken - fix it,” so the engineer was working on it, working on it - he couldn’t fix it down here, either.

So in his frustration and in his anger, he kicked it. And when he did, it started working. So he called up and said to the guy up there - he said, “Kick it! That’s all. I kicked it here and it started working.” So he kicked it up there and it started working, too.

But that anger out of bounds - a little too much - and it doesn’t taste right. Maybe a little bit, okay. A little bit too much, and it doesn’t taste right. You love somebody and you’re constantly next to them, “I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.” I mean, right down to the point where you drive that person completely insane! It’s like, “Go away!”

Everything done in proportions. And every dish comes out great. Done in proportions. And it paints a beautiful scenario, it paints a beautiful painting. And never, ever feel that to paint the painting that you’re capable of painting every day - that you’re missing anything. Anything. You have all the ingredients. All the ingredients. That’s how you were created.

There’s a lot of technology that has gone into creating you. And it’s for something. That you can enjoy. That you can be happy. That you can be sad. But that’s not what you’re geared for. You’re geared to be happy. That’s when it feels good.

In your life, use that expression, and the courage, you have. You absolutely have.

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